Truck tech. This ex-army, ex-fire service 6x6 hacked-together luxury motorhome goes anywhere and carries three months of supplies. I especially like the drop-down stairs at the back and the cameras. It's bloody HUGE.

Automatic asset (and people) network tracker. I've always said work should have something like this for the assetting team - the ( Read more... )

Cute little robotic fan dancers. Watch for the Tai Chi moves the programmers threw in. There's a clickable icon at the bottom right of the video window to make it fullscreen.

Yes, it's a nearly fully-articulated remote-control, transforming robot car that drives, walks (and poses :). I want one for Christmas.

See it in action.

See it in action at Robot-Fan.netFor the technically inclined who would like to store the video locally: downloading it in most Windows browsers will drop a 1,637,241-byte file in your temp ( Read more... )

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/SH

Light, dextrous artificial hand.

Interesting, from a mechatronics points of view.

Very interesting when coupled to a biomechatronic controller, I would think.

Thermoformable plastic with low activation temp, perfect for armor or robot panels:

http://cosplaysupplies.com/wonderflex/wonderflex.html

Want to have up to 128 readable switches on a USB port so your belt-top can respond to real-world input? Then have a squiz at the X-Keys Matrix Board. Also available in PS/2.

Connect your switches, toggles, dials, sliders, or other sensors to this tiny input board and let the PC do the rest.

Want tactile and thermal senses on your waldoes?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4154366.stm

Damn, that's not a bad concept at all.

( Dr Octopus costume, Comic-Con 2005 )

Feel like embedding a couple of external cameras in your robot costume? Try Reportware.

Then you could combine them with something like a higher-refresh-rate version of the Proview SR80 stereo input HMD. Nice resolution, visual field and DVI input, pity about the 60Hz vertical refresh.

Interested in myosignal-reactive exoskeletal componentry? Try the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab.