Shape Changing Robots

Interesting development in robot research - shape changing robot... read on the following excerpts

"Engineers and even the U.S. military have been seeking shape-shifting robots that can squeeze into tight spaces, such as cracks under doors in a disaster zone or between delicate parts of a human body on the operating table.

In the latest development of soft robotics, researchers at MIT report they've created — using materials that can be found at a craft store — a new kind of robot muscle that goes soft when heated and hardens when cooled"

http://www.livescience.com/46805-new-muscle-for-squishy-robots.html​

Car travels 100km under 1 litre

Volkswagen is ready to market their super efficient car... will be on sale this year.

It comes with electric motor and 800cc turbo diesel engine, claimed to use only 0.9 litre fuel per 100km.
read more at http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/drive/article/first-car-capable-of-travelling-100km-on-less-than-a-litre-of-fuel/

Vacuum cleaner robot

A caterpillar robot which blasts dry ice — frozen CO2 — against floors and walls, evaporating and carrying waste substances with it, then the nozzle sucks up the resulting gases. It is meant to clean up radioactive substances such as in Fukushima Daichi battered plant.

read more at vaccum-cleaner-robot-bound-for-fukushima

Bionic eyes !

Bionic eye is one step closer to reality..  oops it is not for powerful vision but for the benefit of the blinds. It has been approved in America. Argus II, the device has video camera on glasses that transmits wireless image to electrodes on the patient's retina.

video at aljazera

Another animal robot..!

Agile little nano quadcopter Crazyflie is flying and buzzing your way. Seeed Studio is shipping the nano quadcopter open source kit with a price tag of $149.

video of the copter at http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/blog/20820132

Pacemaker in your brain!

Another application of pacemaker has been found. Science, space & robot page reported on the first implant of pacemaker in human brain to help alzheimer patient.

read more from this link http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/blog/12320132

Relax !!!!

I came across a blog by an American exchange student in Indonesia writing about "relax". Apparently relax means differently in Indonesia and America. Relax in Indonesia is more toward being patience, while in America it means 'you're acting crazy, pls stop!' Then this American fella began to appreciate this new meaning. You should relax or otherwise you'll be stressed out unnecessarily.

Same goes here in Malaysia, we should be more relax sometimes. When we're driving, relax.. you'll get there eventually. Nothing much that we can do, the traffic is beyond our control. Just chill out and enjoy the driving. We should do the same.. to many more of our daily activities.. pls avoid unnecessary stress..  and you'll live healthier life and more at peace...

Chill out.. y'all...