The Gadgeteer: Robotics to Drool Over

by Hein Marais, Jul 1, 2008

Science Fiction have inspired and intrigued millions of people to turn their Robotic fantasies into reality.

Star Wars has created the R2-D2 craze and there are now many different versions built by different people.
Real R2-D2 robots that contain home theatre systems to robots that can obey voice commands.
The Japanese have surely mastered the art of robotics.
The Kondo KHR-2HV Robot can play soccer, dance, do cartwheels, do exercises and walk like a human.
Robots Inspired by Animals.
Many robotics researchers are now getting inspiration from nature. Robots that mimics different kinds of animal movements.
Robots moved by brain power.
As absurd as this may sound, robots can now be moved by brain power. Electrical impulses created by the brain are translated into movement.
Robot motion execution by moving your hand. The robotic hand replicated the movement of a human’s hand contained in a special glove.
A robot dinosaur named Pleo.
This robotic dinosaur is amazingly lifelike.

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And then there is the humans trying to mimic the robots.