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Smooth motion of robots like human or animal will be happen soon. Scientist at NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas have developed Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Muscles, which stronger than steel, and the best is its superelastic. As reported on science, NanoTech Institute they have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, consisting almost exclusively of carbon nanotubes, which can operate at extreme low temperatures that would cause other artificial muscles systems to freeze and at very high temperatures that would cause other muscle systems to decompose.

UPDATE: Here are videos that demonstate this new muscle.

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For fun with great result, lets become a robot transformer, means make any images become robots images. All you need just image and
Photoshop Software

. For this tips and tricks at tutzor, we’ll gonna transform horse into robot so it become robohorse.

First, ofcourse you need horse picture. Pick it at the best. Because talking about robots is always in mechanical, so we need mechanical images too. In this tutorial, motorcycles and knight armor used. But you can change it, pick another mechanical and iron image like machines or industrials. Ready, let make it using tutorial here.

This robot called as T-34. Its designed as security purpose. The T-3 4 controlled with a mobile phone, which receives video footage in real time, broadcast from the robot’s camera, therefore the operator sees everything the robot sees.

The best part about this is that it can be controlled by a mobile phone and the images, too, are transmitted to a mobile phone, so the person monitoring the phone can be mobile instead of being stuck in one place looking at big screen monitors.

The small robot moves on four wheels and can reach the speed of 10 kmph. It comes equipped with a line of sensors which enables it to register suspicious activities in the empty office by detecting movement, body heat or sound. Read the rest of this entry →

Essex scientists develop more easy, effective and efficient way to monitoring water pollution, especially sea water in ports. The team will develop autonomous fish equipped with chemical sensors, which will find pollutants and create a real-time 3D map of the port, showing what chemicals are present and where.

This robofish project called as SHOAL project. SHOAL will use advanced swarm intelligence techniques to control and coordinate a school of robotic fish efficiently and adapt quickly to changes in the port environment. This will benefit not only monitoring operations in ports across the EU, but also lead to important advances in robotics, chemical analysis, underwater communications and robot intelligence.

The technology developed through this joint project (University of Essex, 6 partners from 5 European countries and has been backed by the EU 7th Framework Programme Theme 3-ICT) will not only enable port authority to gain increased mobility and flexibility to monitor ship-source pollution, but also enable them to monitor other types of harmful contaminants and other pollutants from underwater pipelines. This is a very challenging project. One of the key challenges is to make the robotic fish fully autonomous, easy to use and able to meet the needs of the port. The issues such as data security, communication, and energy will also be interesting challenges.

So, we hope that this project done successfully. Not only made the robotics fish run, but also can identify pollutant and clean up them for better world.

Skill needed for programming a robot answered in this robot book. This is practical guides that include history and theory. The author Joe Jones and Daniel Roth brings many practical and useful explanations in very easily understood terms to the beginner, and hidden depth to the experienced robot programmer.

Using an intuitive method, Jones deconstructs robot control into simple behaviors that are easy to program and debug for inexpensive microcontrollers with little memory. Behavior-based robotics is quite simply the design of robots where there are no internal “models” of the environment. Instead, the robot’s action is state-machine driven via inputs gleaned from the robot’s sensors. This book gives very practical advice on building and programming such a robot. Some mathematics is involved, so the reader who knows trigonometry, algebra, and the basics of computer programming would be best prepared to make good use of this book. This is a learning opportunity for anyone wanting to understand practical robot programming behavior style.