Video Friday: Disaster Superheroes, Balancing Cubes, and senseFly Tackles the Matterhorn

Yes, Shredder is back, and he's working for Cyberdyne.

Cyberdyne's HAL powered exoskeleton is wicked awesome, and we've been waiting for the company to put it to some wicked awesome uses besides rehab. Looks like they've got one:

The company had already talked about using the exoskeleton for workers, and disaster relief is no longer the next logical step, but rather the logical next step. Plus, it looks like it belongs in a sci-fi movie, and we always approve of that.

[ Cyberdyne ]

When we saw senseFly's eBee at Parrot's booth at CES in January, they told us that it was incredibly easy to use. Turns out it's so easy to use that you can take it skiing with you, if you want to document your favorite runs in 3D:

You can buy yourself an eBee for just $12k, which is really not that bad for a UAV that does everything for you with no mess and no fuss. Impressive.

[ senseFly ]

Thanks Adam!

Robots on Tour, a "World Congress and Exhibition of Robots, Humanoids, Cyborgs and more," opens in Zurich on March 9. Here's some of what you'll see:

Roboy will be there too, and it's learning how to shake hands, and possibly ride a bicycle:

[ Robots on Tour ]

[ Roboy ]

Robot ostrich from Russia:

Any questions? No? Good.

Via [ DVICE ]

Last time we checked in with Cubli, it was a one dimensional prototype. Now it's a full three dimensional cube that can balance itself, and Mohanarajah Gajamohan, Raffaello D’Andrea, and Igor Thommen are trying to teach it to hop up on its own and dance around a little bit:

Problem is, so much force is required on the reaction wheels that the thing breaks itself pretty quickly, which is cool all by itself. It's an ongoing research project, so we're looking forward to more updates/

[ Cubli ] via [ Robohub ]

For the first time ever, we've got a (fresh) sample of Mars rocks! Here's your Curiosity update:

[ MSL ]

Lastly this week, um, I kinda thought we were going to be able to entirely avoid this whole Harlem Shake meme, but alas, 'tis not to be. From UC Berkeley, Beatbots, and iRobot (in that order) here's... Well... Here's whatever this is: