“iRobot Developing Inflatable Robot Arms, Inflatable Robots” The AIRarm is lightweight, inexpensive, and stows compactly. It’s inflated and deflated with an on-board pump, and uses actuators and strings to move its joints without embedded motors. While regular PackBot 3-link arms are between 15 and 20 pounds, the AIRarm system only weighs about a tenth of that, a fact that would be much appreciated by the soldiers that have to carry these robots around. ____________________ This may be just the first generation of real, bug-like robots complete with exoskeletons. Sarah Connor, take note. “iRobot Developing Inflatable Robot Arms, Inflatable Robots” The AIRarm is lightweight, inexpensive, and stows compactly. It’s inflated and deflated with an on-board pump, and uses actuators and strings to move its joints without embedded motors. While regular PackBot 3-link arms are between 15 and 20 pounds, the AIRarm system only weighs about a tenth of that, a fact that would be much appreciated by the soldiers that have to carry these robots around. ____________________ This may be just the first generation of real, bug-like robots complete with exoskeletons. Sarah Connor, take note.

“iRobot Developing Inflatable Robot Arms, Inflatable Robots”

The AIRarm is lightweight, inexpensive, and stows compactly. It’s inflated and deflated with an on-board pump, and uses actuators and strings to move its joints without embedded motors. While regular PackBot 3-link arms are between 15 and 20 pounds, the AIRarm system only weighs about a tenth of that, a fact that would be much appreciated by the soldiers that have to carry these robots around.

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This may be just the first generation of real, bug-like robots complete with exoskeletons.

Sarah Connor, take note.

Aug. 22 2012
#science #tech #robots #industrial design
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