Bionics Now!

SuperForest has posted about innovations in robotic limb technology in the past, like the Hal-5 exoskeleton, or DEKA's bionic arm... but nothing quite compares to Touch Bionics latest advancement, the i-limb!



Looking very much like Luke Skywalker's prosthetic arm from Star Wars, the i-limb is now the first commercially available bionic hand. Controllable completely by thought, and with amazing mobility, grip and 5 separately working fingers, the i-limb took over 20 years to develop and has been named by Time magazine as one of the top inventions of the year!



More and more it seems our reality is catching up to science fiction. We've got Star Wars arms, Minority Report televisions, humanoid I-Robots, and Buzz Lightyear flying men. wake me when personal teleporters and hovercars arrive.

Oh wait, they already have!

Is it weird to anyone else they got Sigmund Freud in the driver's seat? I'm starting to believe we just might see it all in our lifetimes!

The Future is Now!

Future Dance

If you thought the kinship through dance video was cool, you've gotta see this:


It puts "doing the robot" in a whole new light. Crazy, crazy stuff!

Roboty Goodness!

Got a couple minutes? Like cutting edge robotics?

Enjoy:



Very exciting things happening in robotics these days!

Do y'all remember the Fritsl's Yellow Drum Machine? Crabfu's bots? Amazing.

BigDog Quadrupedal Robot!

This is the BigDog Quadrupedal Robot from Boston Dynamics.

Is it not a bit chilling to watch it move?

Boston D's got lots of little critters in the pipeline:


Nothing quite gets under your skin line BigDog, though. In the video, when the guy kicks it in the side and it immediately compensates? Chilling. What about when it nearly slips on the ice? It reminded me of nature footage of a giraffe baby's tentative first steps.

Just think, if this is Version 1, what will Version 10 look like?

Like this?


Start saving up for that EMP. It's the only way to beat the Machines.