NAMO humanoid robot

The NAMO (Novel Articulated MObile platform) humanoid robot did not come from Japan surprisingly, as it hails from Thailand instead courtesy of The Institute of Field Robotics (FIBO) at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. NAMO will not see action on the battlefield as it is a peacetime robot, welcoming folks to public places such [...]

CARRS-Q Driving Simulator

The Center for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q) certainly looks like a very high-tech and realistic driving simulator. It was developed by the folks by at the Queensland University of Technology, and is supposed to display the difference amidst control on road and fatal tragedy. The simulator is able to simulate driving under different [...]

Prosthetic foot recycles energy

Steven H. Collins (Department of Bio-mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology) and Arthur D. Kuo (Departments of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan) have come up with a make new artificial foot which is capable of recycling energy, thanks to a micro controller within which operates a device in the foot itself, helping store [...]

Wiimote hacked as water level sensor

The Wiimote is one highly hackable device, but We’ve all been entertained by Wiimote hackery in the past, but William Luxemburg from the Delft University of Technology brings things to another notch by hacking his Wiimote to operate as a water-level sensor that is capable of measuring evaporation. that is a simple and cost-effective method [...]

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