Update on Sea-faring Micro-bots

Super Tipper and Chameleon

In the Chameleon the diver cabin adjust and container can be loaded from the front.

The Tipper unloads in all direction on all terrains including slopes

I was looking for a trend that marks a new direction for a long time.
This is clearly it, the Dyson of trucking. More safe, more adjustable, reconfigurable and half the weight of a solid truck. Wow!

http://www.haishandesign.com/works.html

Robotic Ball That will steal Your show too

I blog this here as it is based on laser, but really it also belongs to my LEDlightBlogSpot for ingenuity. I am talking about the Laserball of course. It will steal the show on your party too.

A lighthow and music rolled in one mean ball. Activated by sound or your touch.
It works with a gyrating innerds and laser pulses. Enough said.

You wan to read another review? Get it from redferret here.

LEDs Light the Way for New Car Headlamp Designs

"LEDs have been used in automotive signal lighting applications for a number of years, but until recently it would have required too many emitters to produce sufficient illumination for forward lighting," said Jeff Raggio, automotive business development manager for Lumileds Lighting. "Our Luxeon technology makes LED-powered headlamps practical for the first time, and the presence of these headlamps in today's concept vehicles indicates that consumers will be driving cars with Luxeon headlights within a couple of years."

LEDs Light the Way for New Car Headlamp Designs

Place Robot or Space Robot

Space Robot or Place robot, you be the judge.
Rooms and houses will be the robots without distracting technology? No sundry robotic stuff laying about. Your room can see you and serve you. The concept is bleeding obvious, but quite hard to make it work. Not to mention it is a little silly.

Space Robot Knows Your Mood: Science Fiction in the News

More related:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070218x3.html

Where robotics and modelling begin to meet

Is this where robotics and modelling finally meet? - the dynamic self model.

source:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1116/2
http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/research/selfmodels

At first, this robotic starfish is quite "unaware" of its own shape. After flailing its arms for a while, however, the robot gets a dymic reflection of itself via sensors. After such "introspection" the robots gets a sense of its own design and begins to walk.

Then engineers remove a part of its leg. Now, the starfish robot re-senses it's own shape and detects a change in its structure. Reevaluates its own abilities and begins walking in a different way to compensate.

The demonstration is the first proof that a robot can generate a conception of itself and then adapt to damage, a handy skill to have in environments of uncertainty.

YouTube - robot generates a conception of itself

Carbon nanotubes colonize water stuff faster

Another chapter on colonizing sea current to augment positive effects and mitigate negative effects. One big plus for the nano-bot idea.
Impossible? -- Amazing! Carbon nanotubes spread in water better when organic material [to feed on?] is present:

Jump to the links and be amazed at where research is heading:
http://www.photonics.com/content/news/2006/December/28/85549.aspx