Nouvelle Technologie

    Short Bytes: Vertigo , a Disney made robot, can climb a wall on wheels with agility and again return to the ground to show its capability of running through urban as well as natural environment. Know more about the robot and watch the video above For robots, multi modal is the way to go, when going involves getting to as many places as you possibly can. Designing a robot with the ability to deal with a variety of terrains or conditions usually requires some creativity, and in the past, some of the most creative designs have come from ETH Zurich and Disney Research, like this wall-climbing base-jumping tornado-powered robot called Paraswift . As cool as Paraswift was, since it depended on suction to climb walls, it couldn’t deal with rough surfaces that prevented a solid vacuum seal. This led the Disney Research/ETH team to try something else, and that something else is a new robot called VertiGo, which is a sort of hybrid helicopter-car-thing that ...

The cute smart bot ..!! People like smartphones and they like robots so   Sharp   figured it would combine the two to create a strange device called the RoboHon The device is a mobile phone robot that was created jointly with Tomotaka Takahashi's robot creators.  The robot is able to walk on two legs and is dubbed the "next generation of mobile information communication terminal."   Specification The bot has integrated LTE/3G supporting voice calls, email, and a camera.  It’s like a very basic mobile phone with the ability to walk around. The robot also has an integrated projector that allows it to project photos, video, maps, and other content on the surface of a desk or on a wall. RoBoHoN has a Snapdragon 400 chip inside which is a quad-core unit operating at 1.2GHz.  A 2-inch touchscreen is integrated into the rear of the device with QVGA resolution for controlling the robot features.  Users can also control the functi...