iRobot Revails 'Warrior' Robot. Bigger and Badder than Packbot

iRobot issued a press release this morning detailing some of their new products. Of special interest is the new 250lb Warrior robot. Warrior, which isabout six times the size of the packbot, can move at over 12mph overrough terrain and can carry a payload of up to 100 lbs.

This annoucement coincides with an Army Future Combat Systems conference. Our friends at Robot Stock News have more details. Via

Mucus Trail Robot to Travel Through Human Intestines

Instead of having a robot to crawl by your intestines, how about it slipping length on a slipping mucus trail? A group of researchers of university of Delft of technology, in the Netherlands, adopts this approach of novel to the exploration of inter-body in order to protect the sensitive lining from the plan of intestines.

The is the develops by tube-formed robot which will have several polymer “feet”. The feet stick to mucus striping the interior of the intestines. The foot towards before-more will seize the wall of intestine while the feet postpone will be made to slip freely ahead by pulverizing them with water. Then, the back foot will seize the wall, by employing a surface different of polymer, and the front feet will advance ahead. The process can then be repeated to create inch-worm-like the movement by the goal of intestines.

The is the test the robot inside a length of intestine of pig, whereas it carries a camera and a tool for biopsy, towards the end of the year.

 

South Korea Develops Machine-Gun Sentry Robot

This history unloads in very fresh category the “, however very alarming” of today - South Korea develops a robot-like sentinel equipped machine-gun. The robot of sentinel is equipped with two cameras, for the day and for the infra-red vision of night, the bourdonnantes possibilities, a loudspeaker to inform the intruder of dead the inpending, identification of model sophisticated to detect the difference between the human ones and the trees, and one expects that are sold for $200.00 USD and will be robots of 5.5mm a machine-gun.

A The, code develops between Samsung and the university of Korea, available late in 2007. The Korean government of the south projects to deploy these friendly recalls on the border between the North Korea of the south and, to relieve more far from the relations between the countries. Or, perhaps it is the manner of othe which around.

AYou can also see more images and video of the robot in this harshly translated page. This line particularly caught my attention: “? the person the equipment of identification of form to analyze the loss of blood and a device of the mobile object. “Let us hope just that Google was particularly bad to translate today.

AI imagine that the bad chiefs of the whole the world with secret cushy jobs of Bad-Type lick to them lips.