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Lego Tilt-Pan rig rivals Gigapan (video/DIY)

Lego Tilt-Pan rig rivals Gigapan (video/DIY)

When President Barack Obama was inaugurated as this nation’s 44th President, he not only made history as the country’s first African American president, but history was also recorded using a special gadget called the Gigapan. The [...]

MIT Student Creates Robotic Helper From A Lamp (video)

MIT Student Creates Robotic Helper From A Lamp (video)

A crafty MIT student has, well, crafted a robot out of a desk lamp. Natan Linder’s LuminAR robotic lamp can display images and text via an embedded Pico Projector, helping with your homework. It also recognizes [...]

Monkey Controls Robot Arm With Its Brain, Plans World Domination (video)

Monkey Controls Robot Arm With Its Brain, Plans World Domination (video)

In news both awesome and terrifying, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh implanted a monkey’s brain with sensors that allow it control a seven-axis robot arm. Two implants control the arm and hand controlling areas of [...]

DARPA’s LittleDog Robot Will Haunt Your Dreams (video)

DARPA’s LittleDog Robot Will Haunt Your Dreams (video)

Don’t watch this video before you go to bed — LittleDog is a DARPA project centered on building a robot that can traverse rough terrain, bringing supplies to soldiers and doing other dangerous things. DARPA’s created [...]

Dean Kamen’s Luke Arm Shakes Its Way On To The Colbert Show (video)

Dean Kamen’s Luke Arm Shakes Its Way On To The Colbert Show (video)

Dean Kamen, an inventor and tech enthusiast, was on The Colbert Report last night to show off his latest invention: a super cool robotic arm. The Luke Arm (a Star Wars reference, of course) is from [...]

Harvard Developing Robot Bee Colony

Harvard Developing Robot Bee Colony

Remember when I was freaking out over the concept of cyborg combat wasps? Well, I’ve got something even more frightening here–apparently, the crew out at Harvard are neck deep in developing an entire colony of robot [...]

10 Centimeter Robotic Dragonfly Rocks A Built-in Camera (video)

10 Centimeter Robotic Dragonfly Rocks A Built-in Camera (video)

This thing is scary small boasting a 10 centimeter wing span.  Built-in to the nose of the robotic insect is a camera.  Check the video after the leap to see it in action, including an ‘in [...]