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MIT’s Firefly Robots Create Floating 3D Display From Colored Micro Helicopters

21 Feb 2010 07:52

MIT's Firefly Floating Helicopter

What an awesome display of swarm robotics. These self-organizing micro-bots organize themselves and emit the correct colors to form a free-floating image in the sky.
With a few hundred thousand of these you can create a fully immersive visual environment. Imagine watching a 3D 1080P movie with a few million of these surrounding you!

3D Images From Firefly Free Floating Helicopter Display

The Flyfire canvas can transform itself from one shape to another or morph a two-dimensional photographic image into an articulated shape. The pixels are physically engaged in transitioning images from one state to another, which allows the Flyfire canvas to demonstrate a spatially animated viewing experience. Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space.

20 Dec 2009 18:00

I stumbled across an old but awesome video of a self healing chair which falls apart then reassembles itself. This chair explodes then puts itself back together again!

20 Dec 2009 14:48

Watch this cool robotic device, control this giant flying kite. Quite an impressive machine!

Kite Flying Robot

It is made by FESTO, a German company with specialty in automation.

20 Dec 2009 06:31

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Awesome Homemade Automatic Crossbow!

13 Dec 2009 12:45

This is a homemade automatic crossbow. Quite the custom built piece of machinery.

Slightly off topic, but awesome!

http://www.awhite.fsbusiness.co.uk/x_bows.html

13 Dec 2009 12:43

These cyborg insects can be remotely controlled via a radio transmitter attached to the bug’s back. The insect is powered by Nickel-63, a radioactive isotope which is able to supply power for a small amount of electronics for up about 100 years. Too bad that bug won’t live that long!

Cyborg Insect Spy Robot

These… insects…or are they robots?… cyborgs, can fly around and could possibly transmit whatever sensor information it obtains back to the remote controller.

Maybe this technology could be applied to other typed of insect robots, like this water strider.

The primary objective of the Insect Cyborg Sentinels Project is to develop cybernetic insects for the purposes of living surveillance and reconnaissance micro-air vehicles, MAVs. By eliminating the energy needed for flight and focusing energy efforts on controller and sensor packages, a cybernetic MAV, or CMAV, can be harnessed for the purpose of long endurance stealth missions.

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