A quadrocopter which also can roll on different undergrounds. So it can be more efficient and robust. But the setup doesn’t allow to roll in x and y easily.
via Forschungs-Blog
January 31, 2013
September 12, 2010
Protheses: realistic and better
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) promotes research efforts to enable protheses near humane or in some way even better. So they try to connect them with human cerebral cortex to deliver information from brain to the protheses and also back again! So people can control protheses only by thoughts and will get sense impressions like the structure of a touched surface. The video (especially the first half) impressions were impressive to me:
Unfortunately there can be negative deployments but let’s think about all the good things which can be done with that technology! A lot of people can live a better life just because they will be able to do normal things.
[exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org: Modular Prosthetic-limb System]
August 14, 2010
Virtualization of human body (1)
In the next video a researcher is transferring human head movement data via gyrosensor to a roboter and his video data back to the human.
Is this a another new technology (of virtualization) towards alienation (robots taking over your representation in the world and therefor the public majority) and dissociation (knowing yourself | your body) as one can see in the film “Surrogates”?
April 25, 2010
Scarying robots
On the way to “Terminator”!?!
You can find a short german description here: http://www.spiegel.de/…