Archive for Robots
Introducing the Taxibot
Israel is well known for aerospace innovations in such areas as drones, micro-satellites, and missile-defense systems. To this impressive list of accomplishments you can now add innovation in passenger jet towing. The “taxibot” from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is a new robotic towing vehicle that is expected to save the airlines “…billions of dollars on [...]
Read moreOne Giant Shlep For Mankind
The Jewish calendar and all major Jewish holidays are driven by the cycles of the moon. Considering its centrality to marking time in Judaism, isn’t it about time Jews paid a visit to our only natural satellite? Thanks to 3 young Israeli scientists, such a visit just might take place in 2012. According to this [...]
Read moreIsraeli Innovation Advances the Security Industry
Continuing with our recent theme of Israeli innovations that are breathing life into popular SciFi concepts, we present to you the “Amstaff” a security robot inevitably bound to evoke images of the ED-209 from the 1987 movie Robocop (pictured). In case you never saw the movie, the Enforcement Droid Series 209 (ED-209) is a heavily-armed [...]
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