Kaboom! Blitzer Railgun Completes First Successful Test Firing
Blitzer Railgun Test General Atomics This is my boom stick. Well, not mine, but General Atomics'. Known primarily for manufacturing the Predator drone, General Atomics has also moved into the weapons...
View ArticleRobotic Arm Opens Doors For the Wheelchair-Bound
It Opens Doors, But Still No Epaulets Erin Rapacki, via IEEE Robotics Conference For people confined to wheelchairs, the proliferation of ramps has greatly enhanced their mobility. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleDARPA Orders Smart Robotic Terminator Hands for a Better Tomorrow
Terminator's Arm My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer. Pentagon mad scientists at DARPA have continued on their quest to create killer robots by announcing a new plan for "robotic...
View ArticleSouth Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm
Arm Broadband Just don't look for this upgrade from your ISP Korea University Human skin is apparently a very energy-efficient conduit for transmitting data. A recent experiment achieved a rate of 10...
View ArticleSpring-Loaded Arm Gives Superpower Strength to Office Workers
Office Mech The x-Ar attaches to any swiveling office chair with a center column. The spring case rests alongside your bicep, while a resizable cuff grips your forearm. Paul Wootton The Steadicam was...
View ArticleYou Built What?!: A Remote-Controlled Robo-Arm
Smart Arm Mike Basher Two summers ago, Easton LaChappelle thought it would be fun to build a robotic arm controlled wirelessly using a glove. LaChappelle, then 14, knew nothing about electronics,...
View ArticleWatch A Super-Dexterous Robot Hand Use Tweezers
A Robotic Hand Grasping A Battery iRobot Robots, while awesome, tend to be clumsy in unpredictable human environments. Machines that use hands as deftly as humans do, with only minimal direction,...
View ArticleDouble The Fun: Monkeys Control Two Virtual Arms With Just Their Thoughts
Reach In a new experiment, researchers developed a system that allowed monkeys to move two arms in a computer game-like environment using just their thoughts. Duke Center for Neuroengineering Those...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Is Testing Auto-Aiming Rifles
TrackingPoint's .338 Lapua Magnum XS1 TrackingPoint Consider it performance enhancement for snipers. Guns made by a company called TrackingPoint, which include a special computer and targeting system...
View ArticleKaboom! Blitzer Railgun Completes First Successful Test Firing
This is my boom stick. Well, not mine, but General Atomics'. Known primarily for manufacturing the Predator drone, General Atomics has also moved into the weapons business,…
View ArticleRobotic Arm Opens Doors For the Wheelchair-Bound
For people confined to wheelchairs, the proliferation of ramps has greatly enhanced their mobility. Unfortunately, opening doors remains an omnipresent, and frustrating,…
View ArticleDARPA Orders Smart Robotic Terminator Hands for a Better Tomorrow
Pentagon mad scientists at DARPA have continued on their quest to create killer robots by announcing a new plan for "robotic autonomous manipulators" that can emulate human…
View ArticleSouth Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm
Human skin is apparently a very energy-efficient conduit for transmitting data. A recent experiment achieved a rate of 10 megabits per second, which may put my Internet connection to shame. The...
View ArticleSpring-Loaded Arm Gives Superpower Strength to Office Workers
The Steadicam was originally developed to take the shake out of Hollywood chase scenes. Now a California company, Equipois, has given it a new purpose: to help line workers…
View ArticleYou Built What?!: A Remote-Controlled Robo-Arm
Two summers ago, Easton LaChappelle thought it would be fun to build a robotic arm controlled wirelessly using a glove. LaChappelle, then 14, knew nothing about electronics, programming, or...
View ArticleWatch A Super-Dexterous Robot Hand Use Tweezers
Robots, while awesome, tend to be clumsy in unpredictable human environments. Machines that use hands as deftly as humans do, with only minimal direction, would be a…
View ArticleDouble The Fun: Monkeys Control Two Virtual Arms With Just Their Thoughts
Those old Doublemint chewing gum ads got it right: Two is better than one. That's the idea behind a new study, published today, that showed off a system that hooked up…
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Is Testing Auto-Aiming Rifles
Consider it performance enhancement for snipers. Guns made by a company called TrackingPoint, which include a special computer and targeting system built into the gun…
View ArticleHow To Master Your Third Arm
In the 2002 movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays with a futuristic computer like a maestro. With a flick of his wrist, data moves from one screen to the next, and a…
View ArticleRobotic Third Arm Turns Drummers Into Beat Machines
Technology This ain’t a scene, it’s an arms race Add a robot arm, get some extra beats in…
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