Blog 43

Scroll down and watch both videos on Swarming UAVs.

What does LOCUST stand for?
What are these to be used for?

Blog 42

Skim the article and watch video.

What is an artificial robot nervous system? How does it work?

Blog 41

Skim the article and watch the video.

Why is the robot special?
Describe what it does.

Blog 40

Skim the article and watch the video.

How do these robots perch?
What applications or ways could these robots be used? What would you use a really small robot for?

Blog 39

Skim the article and watch the SECOND video.

How does it go to through the ducts?

Blog 38

Skim the article

How does the system figure out emotions?

Blog 37

Skim the article and watch the video.

How does this robot work?

Blog 36

Go to this link
watch the video.

Is the robot autonomous or remote controlled?
Explain how it works.

Blog 35

Skim the article

What was the inspiration for their robot?
What are its components?

blog 34

Skim the article.

Tell me how the bee model works.

blog 33

Skim the article
watch the video.

How does this robot surgeon differ from the DaVinci?

Blog 32

Skim the article and watch the video. There is no sound.

Which was the best recover method?

Blog 31

Watch this video

How do the cars navigate?
How do they steer?

Blog 30

Watch this video

Then watch this video

What is the main difference between the two "snakes"?
Name 2 challenges of making this robot.

Blog 29

Skim the article and watch the video at the end.

Why is the robot recycling of the phone better than the current way to do it?

What is the new development of using robots for recycling?

Blog 28

Skim this article

What is the breakthrough that will revolutionize industrial robots?

Blog 27

Skim the article and watch the video at the end.

How does this work? How does it make sure to get a good photo of fish smiling?

Blog 26

Skim the article and watch the video at the end.

How long did it take to make the robot?
What is limiting the facial expressions?
What is the purpose of this robot?

Blog 25

Watch this video.

If you were going to build a useless robot what would you build?
What task do you do now that you wish a robot could do?

Blog 24

Sophia.
Skim this article and watch the video at the end. Answer the questions below.

What company makes this robot?
What kind of robot does this company want to provide?
What is special about this robot?

Blog 23

Skim this article

What powers the Emily?
How much does Emily cost?
What is the purpose of Emily?

Blog 22

skim this article

watch this video

What is the base design for this robot?
What are the advantages?
Will it reduce human jobs?

Blog 21

Watch the first 60 sec of this video.

Skim this article

1- How did the computer (AI) beat the man?
2- How will AI change education?

Blog 20

watch the video
read below.

XDog is a small electric quadruped designed and built by Xing Wang, a graduate student at Shanghai University, with support from his adviser Jia Wenchuan. The robot has 12 motors (each leg has 3 DoF), and uses force sensors on each foot, IMU, and joint-angle sensors for control. Wang says XDog “has just been born,” and he’s still working on its walking gait (top speed is currently about 0.6 m/s) and hopes to add capabilities like running and jumping. And if you noticed all the Boston Dynamics references in the video, yes, Wang is a fan:
“Marc Raibert from Boston Dynamics is my idol,” he says. “Their papers helped me to design XDog.” He added: “But Boston Dynamics quadruped robots are large and expensive, and I want to use [a different design] to make quadruped robots simpler and smaller, so that they can help ordinary people with things like carrying objects or as companions.”

Who invented XDog?
How many Degrees of Freedom does each leg have?

Blog 19

Watch the video

Would you follow the robot?
Would your knowledge of robots affect your decision?

Blog 18

Skim this article.
watch the video.
How does the finger tip work?
What are some other applications for this technology?

Blog 17

Watch this video.

What would you design to make with the PancakeBot?

Blog 16

Skim the article about the Tega. Watch the video.
What is the brain?
What is the robot designed to do?

blog 15

Skim this article.
How did they program the wheelchair?

Blog 14

Read this article

Will AI add jobs or take away jobs from Americans?

Blog 13

Boston Dynamics Redesigned their Atlas robot.
Watch the video. Just the first part.

How is this robot better than the last one?
What helps it navigate?

Blog 12

Skim the article on boat swarm robots.
Watch the video.


What are the advantages of using swarm robots?
What is the "reality gap"? What is the "reality gap" with the RCXs?

Blog 11

Skim this article and watch the video.

What did they do first in the design of their robot hand? What was the foundation?
What powered the hand?

blog 10

Read this short article.

Name 3 features this robot has.
What would you do with this robot if you had one?

Blog 9

Watch this short video.

How were these robots similar to the ones we saw before?

How were they different?

Blog 8

Read the short article at this link.

What is the predicted downfall of artificial intelligence?
Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Blog 7

Go to this link

Watch the video on the Valkyrie robot.
What does it do well?
What do robots need to learn to do before we can make R2D2?

Blog 6

Go to this link

Name 2 ways robots can read your "emotions"

Blog 5

Go to this link.

List 3 uses for the exoskeleton.

Blog 4

Go to this site
Why are they using robots to farm?
What part  of the process are the robots NOT doing?

Blog 3

Fighting robots in Spain
go to this link

How is the winning robot controlled?
How were many of these robots made?
Give one suggestion on how to make the robots better.

Blog 2

Watch this video

What four things are hard to teach robots?
What would you like to teach robots?

Blog 1

Go to this link and watch the video.
Then answer the questions below.


How fast do they go?
How much do they weigh?
What company makes them?
Do they walk like real four legged animals?