Bino3 surveillance robot has a 3D motion and stereo binocular system. Its developers hope to use it in areas potentially dangerous to humans, such as radioactive rooms.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd. made the world’s first radio-controlled robotic fish called Coelacanth. The robot can swim to see visitors and recharge itself when the battery becomes low.
The Japanese JSK Laboratory launched the HARU Project and created the Haru robot series. This service robot has RC Servo which serves as actuators controlled by a radio.
Created by ZMP Japan, the Miuro robot is a speaker on wheels that can play a variety of sound formats. It wirelessly connects to a 802.11b/g network to play music from a PC or internet radio. Miuro has a maximum battery life of three to four hours of…
Founded by William Chalmers, the Chalmers University of Technology aims at becoming the most attractive universities in the world through internationally acclaimed research and education together with a professional innovation procedure.
Hemolab is the former name of LifeTec Group that specializes in the field of biomedical R&D. The company performs tests and studies to develop innovative healthcare products. LifeTec Group is also part of the PITON project, which aims at creating the…
HSU may be one of California's smallest universities, but it has a long and respected academic history. The school's Computer Science department has an Internet Teaching Laboratory, the ITL, where students learn about computer and network security as…
Being one of the best Japanese technical colleges, the The Nippon Engineering College’s Robotics and Mechanics Department provide students with a wide range of skills to develop, create and operate robots.
The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) is the nuclear service provider in the Netherlands, providing nuclear services for energy, environment and health. With the continuous development in nuclear medicine, NRG and its partners are always in…
The Laval University Robotics Laboratory pioneers research in the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands. They have made numerous partnerships with other labs as well as government agencies, including the Canadian Space Agency. One…
The Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital has departments in nearly every medical field available. The school has expanded its offerings to include work in the robotics field, to help equip students with advanced technology. Researchers helped…
SPbSPU is Russia’s major technical university located in St. Petersburg. It is also the country's top research facility and the leading educational institution in the fields of industrial engineering, aerospace engineering and several other disciplines.…
Japan’s UEC boasts of its unrivaled scale of education and research in human-friendly science and engineering. In its Mitsuharu Matsumoto Laboratory, students are focused on research that includes human-robot interaction and intelligent robotics. Ahead…
The SUNRISE project has developed a team of aquatic robots that are able to work together to scan the sea floor and communicate via the 'Internet of underwater things'
Lil'Bot is a robotics project which aims to build a low-cost, open-source, balancing robot that is easy to program. In order to fund this robotics project, its creator Chris Hakim started a crowdfunding program using Kickstarter.
Lil’bot project by Chris Hakim is a low-cost, open-source robotics project to develop a balancing robot that can be used to introduce children to robot programming. Lil'Bot is easy to program using a visually based programming language and can express…
The Protei project is a robotics project initiated by Scoutbots, a Hong Kong-based non-profit organization founded by Cesar Harada. The Protei project aims at developing a way of cleaning the oceans using autonomous sailing robots that are able to work…
RoboCup Rescue is one of the competition leagues that make up the yearly RoboCup event where teams from all over the world compete for the best robot for Search & Rescue missions.
SUNRISE is a robotics project involving the research and development of acoustic based networks to support sub-surface communications and develop autonomous aquatic Swarm robots that can interact and cooperate.
Apelike is a humanoid robot made for behavioral studies in the early 1990s. It has two arms and legs, can walk, climb, and swim, and its remote brain develops over time.
BaR2D2 is a wheeled bar robot developed by Jamie Price. It roams around a party to serve liquor to guests, and has a motorized beer elevator and motorized ice/mixer drawer.
Black Tiger competed in the 2012 Robot Athlete Cup and beat three other robots in the 5 meter foot race. The competition drew robot enthusiasts from around the world. Black Tiger Neo, the newest prototype, competed in the ROBO-One Gate Dance Competition,…
ROBO-GARAGE developed a small humanoid called Chroino. It can walk naturally like a human using SHIN-Walk technology, and can kick a ball, stand up and balance itself.
JSK Laboratory has created a four-legged robot called the Chuuta. The Chuuta is programmed to use an ultra-sonic range finder in absence of any vision processing hardware.
Launched in November 2013, Delfi-n3Xt is a small satellite that aims at facilitating practical education, nanosatellite innovation as well as technology demonstration. The main objective of Delfi-n3Xt is to support and strengthen the goals of the Delfi…
Developed by TU Delft Robotics Institute, Eva is the Health Care Robot. It is a fetch and carry service robot that specializes in effective and interactive communication with humans. Moreover, the robot can perform diverse caring tasks.
Fujitsu developed the third platform in the HOAP series called HOAP 3. It has an astounding range of state-of-the art features, and runs on RT-Linux and Intel Pentium M processor.
MESA Robotics Inc. developed a scout and reconnaissance vehicle called MATILDA. It is remote-controlled and has a modular design which permits other parts to be installed into it.
A Thai robot waiter, MK Robot takes orders and serves food. It has a face to provide service with a smile, and it remembers customer preferences to reduce service errors.
Honda's P2 humanoid robot stunned the world with its very human-like movements when it made its debut. It is considered to be the world’s first self-regulating, two-legged walking robot. P2 can also walk up and down stairs and push a cart.
Protei is an autonomous, low-cost, open-source, shape shifting robot developed by Scoutbots. Protei was originally designed to help clean up oil spills and other pollution. Protei features a number of innovative design tweaks that make it a cost-effective…
Chinese firm AOK Ltd. developed a robot called RCRC Transforming Robot, which looks straight out of the Transformers movie. It can change into a truck, a car and a dancer.
