September, 2011:

i-limb digits from Touch Bionics: Fully Customized Electronic Prosthetic Hand

i-limb digits is another prosthesis product from Touch Bionics with fully electronic customized feature. This prosthesis product from Touch Bionics is a perfect tool for people with missing fingers or missing their partial hands. People that lost one to five of their fingers could use i-limb digits for it replacement. This individual powered prosthetic moves individually and works incredibly in combination with any remaining fingers. This way user could gain their functional capabilities again. i-limb digits is made differently where i-limb digits tries to find solution for any missing digits because Touch Bionics believe that every people with missing digits is unique. Perhaps this is the reasonable solution that takes different ways in making prosthetic digits for different people. Many different ways used in making the prosthesis but the goal is still the same where the solution is trying to help people increases their performance and independence.

I-limb ultra Prosthetic Hand from Touch Bionics

Here is one of the prosthetic products from Touch Bionics, i-limb ultra. I-limb ultra is a special designed prosthetic hand for those who want something more natural with their prosthesis. I-limb ultra works and looks naturally than any powered prosthetic hand in market. This high-tech prosthesis has independent natural joints in each finger. These natural joints allow i-limb ultra to greatly familiarize itself with the shape of object that is grasped by user. Moreover, i-limb ultra becomes more versatile by providing user with ability of customable prosthesis for daily activities. To support this versatile feature Touch Bionics uses unique biosim software in this hand. Many automated selections are available within i-limb ultra. For example user could choose precision pinch mode to grip small object like dice (see the image bellow). Another mode that user could choose is automated grips and gestures.

Bionic i-LIMB Hand from Touch Bionics: World’s First Fully Articulate and Commercial Bionic Hand

Bionic i-LIMB Hand is one of the bionic hands that Touch Bionics designed. This prosthetic device is one of two bionic devices that now available in market. This bionic hand becomes the world’s first fully articulate and commercial bionic hand. Bionic i-LIMB Hand acts like a real human hand with five individual powered digits. Touch Bionics claimed that this bionic hand represented a generational advance in bionics and patient care. Advanced of technology was applied on this high-tech prosthetic device. High quality mechanical techniques and high-strength plastics are used on Bionic i-LIMB Hand to create a strong durable lightweight modern prosthetic device.

Welsh Mars Flying Robot Balloon Altair

Altair is a robot that developed by scientists at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. His name stands for Aberystwyth Lighter Than Air Intelligent Robot. This Welsh Mars Flying Robot Balloon is a platform robotic for a new kind of probe for Mars. Welsh Mars Flying Robot Balloon Altair shaped like a mini gondola. Scientists put electric motors, a microprocessor and navigation system inside the gondola. Scientists are successfully making this robot balloon works, and now they are designing bigger and more sophisticate version. Welsh Mars Flying Robot Balloon designed to undergo mission with minimum human intervention. Moreover this robot balloon designed to provide platform for cameras and atmospheric sensors.

Bipedal Spring Turkey Robot: Experimental Platform for Implementation

Spring Turkey is a bipedal walking robot that developed for experimental purpose. This robot is a platform for implementing. The development of Spring Turkey will be used on another robot or another project robot. For examples are implementations of force control actuation techniques, motion description and control techniques, and various walking algorithms. This experimental robot started by two engineers named Peter Dilworth and Jerry Pratt. Started in 1994 this robot built with an actuated hip and knee on each leg. Bipedal Spring Turkey robot is a two dimensional robot because of its limitation in moving. Bipedal Spring Turkey robot’ body divided into two parts, upper and lower body.

Humanoid Robot ATOM-7xp: First Full-Sized Humanoid in United States

First full-sized humanoid robot in United States is ATOM-7xp. This robot was made by Dan Mathias, an engineer, for almost eight years. This robot introduced to public for the first time in 2010 at the 25th anniversary of FutureBots. Mathias uses VIA Nano, Intel ATOM 330 processors and Microsoft 7-XP and C++ to run ATOM. ATOM itself stands for Advanced Technology for Optimizing Motion. This robot was developed under the FutureBots, robotics component suppliers, support. To optimize its motions, humanoid robot ATOM-7xp given 49 degrees of freedom which made of aluminum, titanium, and carbon fiber which made by Mathias in FutureBots, completely handmade and built in USA.

Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle Dragon Runner: Small and Handy UGV

Dragon Runner is a small unmanned ground vehicle or SUGV that is able to let its users to see around small and tied places in urban environment. The small unmanned ground vehicle Dragon Runner was developed by engineers in QinetiQ. Originally this SUGV developed by the U.S. Marine Corps while QinetiQ only takes part in improving its ability and equipments. The basic model of this robot weights only 14lbs with measurement of 12.2 x 16.6 x 6 inches. The development of small unmanned ground vehicle Dragon Runner in QinetiQ did not change any original design significantly but added combination of treads on it.

Get Fairs More Magical By Hiring Robot

ATLAS Robotics could help your fair to be more exciting and fun with their robots. Robots could be something new and surprising for some people because most people never had a real chance to interact with robots. With the robot existence on the fair it gives chance for those who never been interact with them. Such idea could add little funny magical and exciting experience for some people and of course drags your event more electrifying. How could it be very helpful on fair? One, they could surprise your attendances by greeting them on the enter fairgrounds. Two, with the help from the robot’s operator the robot will be more communicative and interactive to give live entertainment with the hidden wireless microphone and remote control.

Cute Kitchen Craps Disney’s Wall-E Sculpture Robot

This is one of cute adorable sculpture robot that you could create by yourself for your kids. Designed by Filth Wizardry this adorable Disney’s character robot Wall-E is made from recycled craps like yogurt cups, cereal boxes, wrapping paper tubes, empty tape dispensers, a bucket and a plastic drink holder. This adorable Wall-E sculpture robot could be a great example for kids to recycle things. One similarity of this robot sculpture with the real Wall-E character is that both are dealing with craps.

Retro Fashioned “Switch-a-roo” Robot Block Puzzle

Find something new and something different for your kids to play. This puzzle robot might be one of the distinctive cool retro fashioned new toy for them. This cool retro puzzle named Switch-a-roo that included three blocks with six different robots on it. How to play ? What you need to do just trying to match each of the robot parts until it shaped a complete figure of retro robot. Each block measured approximately 1.5 x 1.5″. Creative smart retro fashioned way to play around with other kids in play time.

Awesome Transformable Transformers Spying Robot From Hasbro

This is the awesome Transformers Real Gear Robots Spy Shot 6 from Hasbro. The robot character is hidden in shape of camera. Its changeable one! User could transform the camera into robot and from robot back to the camera. This robot is one of the transformers robot character collections. This is not a working camera, but the transformable robot will act like a camera with flash of laser through its lens. It’s a Transformers spying robot from Hasbro and it will be one of the coolest toys collections.

Subaru Food and Pharmaceutical Cargo Transporting Robot

Subaru developed a cargo carrier transportation robot that was applicable to all kind of trolleys. This robot at first used in the transporting the pharmaceutical cargo in 2007. Now this robot has a new job in Tsumura plant where this robot works in carrying packages of food items. This robot weights 200kg and equipped with camera to find its way ahead. This robot called to be more efficient and cheaper and less time consuming in doing its job. Each of these robots priced about $11,000 and there will be about a thousand units and will be on the market in 2010.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Powered By Sea’s Heat

It sounds like fiction story that an underwater robot powered by sea’s heat to get operated. But it is the fact that scientists have invented the newest ‘green’ underwater robot. The AUV powered with energy that originally created by absorbing sea’s heat that converted into energy. Not only it has green technology but also the efficiency of this new invention is remarkable. This AUV’s ‘green battery’ could stay longer than common batteries that used on the predecessor AUVs. This kind of technology could be seen on the Argo underwater robot that discovered the wreck of Titanic.

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