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Honda Robotic Exoskeleton

Here’s a video on Honda's new product: a pair of legs supporting a bench you can sit and walk on. The legs support about 15% of your weight. This is quite an elegant solution compared with the exoskeletons normally used for this kind of application (see above video).

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Nov 10, 2008 9:46 PM. 0 min read time
 
Honda Robotic Exoskeleton

Here’s a video on Honda's new product: a pair of legs supporting a bench you can sit and walk on. The legs support about 15% of...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Nov 10, 2008 9:46 PM
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Bon Voyage, Dextre!

Dextre the robot blasted off today for the International Space Station. This two-armed torso will be placed at the end of...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Nov 03, 2008 12:03 PM
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Computer Vision and Robotics

Bill Gates says that we’re entering the robot age. Some might nit-pick and call it the age of robotics. They predict that...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Oct 06, 2008 9:43 PM
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Underwater Robots Meet Animals

While checking out how people work with underwater ROVs manipulators and grippers, I stumbled upon a number of videos of...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Aug 18, 2008 4:59 PM
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Robotic Shovelful of Mars

Wow, a single photograph showing two of my favourite fantasies: a nice little excavator and a Martian robot. This is Phoenix,...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Aug 06, 2008 5:08 PM
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Self-Adaptive-Robot-Auxiliary-Hand in Popular Science

Popular Science carries an article about SARAH (Self-Adaptive Robot Auxiliary Hand), because it’s part of Dextre’s toolbox....

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on May 02, 2008 1:18 PM
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By Samuel Bouchard
on Oct 18, 2007 4:56 PM
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By Samuel Bouchard
on Oct 18, 2007 4:51 PM
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JPL’s ATHLETE Robot

Take a look at the video below on the robot named ATHLETE (All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Terrestrial Explorer), developed by the

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Aug 13, 2007 4:59 PM
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