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COOLEST ROBOTS EVER.
March 11th, 2022
MIT Leg Lab — 1991-1993, single legged hopping robot kinematically similar to a kangaroo! Any other of Marc Raibert's robots also qualify so check out his website @ Leg Lab!
Image Credit — MIT Leg Lab + Marc Raibert
Honda — the concept was first dreamed up in 1986, ever since then Honda has been working to make it better!
Image Credit — Honda
Auke Ijspreet's — lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology studies bio-robotics! They made a salamander inspired robot that attempts to re-create the motions of the real one!
Image Credit — TED Conferences
Verity Studios — wants to use art and technology to 'make something spectacular'! They use drones in autonomous indoor performances to add special artistic effects!
Image Credit — IEEE
A classic — in the robotics community is the beloved Kuka arm. They've been used for many things but here's one playing table tennis!
Image Credit — Independent
Boston Dynamics goes wild — with its insane hydraulics system and years of development, watching Atlas do Parkour makes you remember why you went into robotics in the first place.
Image Credit — Boston Dynamics
Shoutout to our friend spot — we think because of videos like 'spot me up' — Atlas' four-legged-friend deserves a shoutout of its own.
Image Credit — Boston Dynamics
Oregon State University — developed Atrias for research which made its first outdoor appearance in 2015 and then later appeared in the Darpa Robotics Challenge.
Image Credit — Tech Xplore
University of Michigan — startup "Agility Robotics" based on previous work on the Atrias platform. They're extensively used in manipulation and locomotion research.
Image Credit — IEEE Spectrum
Festo's line of bionic robots — are almost too real to be true. They've made a kangaroo, an elephant trunk, a dragonfly, a bird, and other bio-inspired robots!
Image Credit — Festo Robotics
University of Virginia Researchers — unveiled this robot around 2019 they made to understand how fish swim. It mimics the speed and movements of a real yellow fin tuna!
Image Credit — Haibo Dong
Professor Sangbae Kim's — lab changed the game in the design and control of dynamic robots with new kinds of electric actuators. The robots can jump and even backflip!
Image Credit — MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab
In the year 2000 — the DaVinci robot became the first ever robot approved for surgery by the FDA. This was the first time a system like this was ever approved for hospital use.
Image Credit — DaVinci Robotics
UC Berkeley — researchers developed this robot based off of a bushbaby that can jump up to 6 feet in the air. Salto can jump up to a meter in the air despite being 10 inches tall.
Image Credit — Wired Magazine
Rob Wood and the Harvard Wyss Institute — developed these robots they call 'Robobees' they weigh only 80milligrams and use piezoelectric actuators to fly! Professor Kevin Chen @ MIT is also doing something similar!
Image Credit — Robohub
Another Professor Sangbae Kim — production with Mark Cutkosky, the gecko-inspired robot is capable of vertical climbing on smooth surfaces!
Image Credit — National Science Foundation
MIT CSAIL's Distributed Robotics Lab — created this robotic fish that can swim in three dimensions and has a camera in-front to record wildlife as it swims! Researchers hope the robot can aid in the closeup exploration of underwater life.
Image Credit — Distributed Robotics Lab @ MIT
MIT and Harvard joint researchers — created these origami robots that use electrical signals passed into shape memory alloys to change shape. It's possible that multiple of these robots could work together to achieve a task in the future.
Image Credit — MIT News August 5th, 2010
Researchers at EPFL — created these robots that are robust to failure and can re-assemble themselves into different shapes to perform tasks. Here's a picture of them working to support/move a table!
Image Credit — EPFL Roombots
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