This is about air-force technology. B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.

The B-2 is a low-observable, strategic, long-range, heavy bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated and dense air-defence shields.

A new transportable hangar system allows the B-2 to be deployed to forward locations overseas.

The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has the capacity to carry up to 40,000lb of weapons, including conventional and nuclear weapons.

The B-2 can respond from domestic US bases to conflicts anywhere in the world within hours.

The B-2 is considered the most survivable aircraft ever built.

B-2s have successfully released bomb shapes from the rotary launcher and conventional weapons from bomb-rack assemblies.

The aerodynamic design of B-2 incorporated computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Flight testing has encompassed 100% of the air refuelling envelope with the KC-135 and KC-10 tankers.

The Fire and Ice nose-art prominently displayed on a B-2.

The cockpit is equipped with a colour, nine-tube, electronic flight instrumentation system (EFIS)

Northrop Grumman has delivered over 20 B-2’s to the US Air Force.

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This robot is called Plen and really impressive.

The size is quite small about 23cm tall and weigh 700gm. It runs by 32bit ARM 7 Processor at 33Mhz.

Other source:

http://www.plen.jp/

http://www.robot-fan.net/modules/x_movie/x_movie_view.php?cid=1&lid=81

Our 101 Tech Video today is about gymnastic robot. I mean robot that can act like gymnast.

Beside the video I show you above, I would like to bring attention to one site that doing the same gymnastic robot tech project.

The objective of the robot tech project is realization of complex and fast motion task is important and attractive area of research. It enhances the mobility of humanoid robots and also contributes to good understanding of motor control of human. Gymnastic motion is included in such interesting motion tasks.

In the study, they focus on nonlinear feedback and feedforward controller for gymnastic robots, which have articulated multi-link structure and highly nonlinear dynamics.

The gymnastic robot can perform jumping, somersault, and back handspring. Back handspring is one of the difficult motion task that has never performed by real machines (and human too).

You can also see the video over there. That’s all for today. Have fun.