Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

Adam Savage Behind the Scenes of Ghost in the Shell The acclaimed Ghost in the Shell portrayed serious advancements in technology and mechatronics, 20 years later we'll have a live action movie bringing all those elements to life. The acclaimed Ghost in the Shell (1995 Production: I.G, Bandai Visual, Kodansha and Manga Entertainment) portrayed serious advancements in technology and mechatronics, 20 years later we'll have a live action movie bringing all those elements to life. Animatronics, 3D printing, Castings, engineering, and art  will bring together this state of the art cyborgs  in a movie we can’t miss.  Tested´s Adam Savage  shows us -in a visit to Weta Workshops- how their team put together the  amazing and visually stunning  cyborgs for the movie. Adam Savage Behind the Scenes of Ghost in the Shell! Of course, let´s watch the trailer: "They created me, but they cannot control me." GHOST IN THE SHELL star...

The International Conference on Mechatronics is being held this week The 2017`s edition is focusing on mechatronics in the industry, including industrial automation and robotics and motion control. With researchers, engineering teams, students, and companies making progress in mechatronics in  all kind of fields is almost a shame that this conference is held every two years. The 2017`s edition is focusing on  mechatronics  in the industry, including industrial automation and robotics and motion control. General chair of the International Conference on Mechatronics Professor Yousef Ibrahim said the event, would demonstrate the  importance of automation  technology and how it could help local industries. "If we develop a new technology to service and streamline industries it would increase economic sustainability." Prof Ibrahim said  an example  of this was technology developed to help with the sorting of fish to export to Japa...

A $40,000 technological wonder SuitX’s Phoenix exoskeleton weighs just 27 pounds is custom-fit to the user’s body and enables the movement to the paralyzed. We mentioned in an earlier article about  the development  of this kind of structures as a  way to enhance soldier’s capabilities  in combat. It even worked as a futuristic resource in the film “Elysium” where the characters used this mechanical wonders to be more capable in  warfare and manhunting . Sharlto Copley as Kruger, Elysium. TriStar Pictures. And as we`ve seen in many cases , reality is often drawn by fiction , in this case, we will see the medicine side of it, or -as it is referred-  soft robotics . SuitX is the company behind the project “Phoenix”, an engineering progress for the people with  reduced mobility .  Paralyzed from the waist down after a BMX accident, Steven Sanchez rolled into SuitX’s Berkeley, California, office in a wheel...

Robot fighting  is not fiction! Let’s take a break from serious news and have a look at this very interesting event. We know very well that a part of robotics and mechatronics research and development is funded for warfare exchange, the most prominent of them are the “drone’s programs” and “super soldier’s exoskeletons” (this last one sound cool). We also know that there have been and there are robot fighting tournaments mostly for TV shows (well look into that in the near future). But let’s take a look into “Megabots”. Japan has enjoyed the “MECHA” genre (Mazinger, Gundam, Evangelion, to name a few)  as part of their anime and manga media for so long, that is almost nonsensical that they haven’t built a giant robot yet. WAIT! They have! And Americans love to make everything GIANT and -even better- with armament! So, following the wisdom of one of the most important entrepreneurs in history, Henry Ford “Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was...