Spherical Robot by Nils Volker

Another great robot developed by Nils Völker. A ball-shaped robot on the base of a Lego Mindstorms NXT. It can move in any direction by turning it’s internal mass, remote controlled via bluetooth with a second NXT.  Another video after the break.

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White Box by Makoto Yabuki

Interesting video conceptualizing ideas into materiality in real-time. Tangible digital.

AR Business Card by James Alliban

New augmented reality business card. Speaks for itself. Another card by Jonas after the break.

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Digital Confetti by Rockwell Group Lab

“Digital Confetti” an interactive event installation with a weather balloon, projection, and maracas. Custom software and hardware is used to create generative confetti graphics, text and sounds as party goes shake maracas at the balloon. Shaking each of the eight maracas has a separate effect on the projected ecosystem. One stirs up the confetti, causing a firework-like spectacle of light, color and sound. The second brings text to the surface of the balloon. Continued shaking of these maracas causes letters to vibrate and eventually flip and transform into one of a sequence of words related to design. The words are projected as black, causing them to be illuminated by the background explosions of confetti, which encourages collaborative interaction. Each maraca also generates a different musical note, creating a harmony of sounds when all shaken together. The forms of the brightly colored maracas are 3-D versions of the confetti. We developed custom software using Openframeworks, an open development environment for C++. The projected confetti uses a flocking algorithm to determine its motion, and the locations of the visual explosions of confetti are controlled by the orientation of the maraca as it is shaken. The text is rendered in a font created for this installation. The event took place in the mid-century modern interior of the Four Seasons Pool Room for the Metropolitan Home Magazine’s “Design 100? party.

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Facade Projection by Urbanscreen

Awesome facade projection project by Urbanscreen. The digital facade dynamically transforms in one seamless experience based on live inputs and predetermined configurations. The digital image is perfectly matched to the actual architecture and gives the impression that the facade is real. More videos after the break.

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Giant Gundam Robot

On my last trip to Tokyo I saw a giant Gundam Robot in the park. It was absolutely amazing and the scale of the robot alone was unlike anything I have ever seen.  It makes me think that it will be possible in my lifetime to build actual fully robotic structures.  Amazing.

Snake Robots by CMU Biorobotics Lab

Amazing snake robot locomation. Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes and access locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot. These highly articulated devices can coordinate their internal degrees of freedom to perform a variety of locomotive gaits that go beyond the capabilities of conventional wheeled and legged robots. The true power of these devices is their versatility; they can crawl, climb, swim, and scale flights of stairs.

HeartLander Miniature mobile robot for minimally invasive cardiac therapy

HeartLander, a miniature medical robot under development at CMU’s Robotics Institute; the robot is designed for performing minimally invasive cardiac therapy. CMU’s HeartLander miniature medical robot used on a living pig’s heart. For more information about the project visit: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hear…