Ecofriend

Robots have rapidly evolved from being a fringe phenomenon to becoming an integral part of our lives. Today, almost every car made on our planet has some or the other input from a robot during the production phase. The same can be said for consumer...

Eco Factor: Self-driven concept robot scans streets and shopping centers for trash. Designed by industrial designer Olga Kalugina, the robot trash harvester, Dubbed Scarab, automates the process of collecting trash from the streets and storing it..

Eco Factor: Robots made from recycled materials. Items such as old cellphones, broken wiper blades, used computer parts and trashed food processors might classify as junk for you, but for Columbian eco-artist Mario Caicedo Langer these are raw...

Eco Factor: Wall-E robot made from recycled materials. Characters made from recycled materials usually seem as if they were left behind by an ambiguous UFO which did land on our planet for a few minutes. However, there are certain ways trash can..

Eco Factor: Pollutant sniffing robotic fish developed to monitor water pollution. Marine life is tottering under the heavy burden of toxic waste, which as a result of rapid industrialization is being released into seas and rivers all over the...

Eco Factor: Solar-powered snow shovel. Last year we featured a human-powered DIY snow shovel, which required muscles of steel and guts to get out in the cold and power a machine to get rid of all the snow in your backyard. This year we have...

Eco Factor: Wind turbine inspecting robot. Recently news surfaced that a wind turbine in England was hammered by an alien spacecraft. We don’t want to unravel any answers to the ET mystery here, but we just want to acknowledge the fact that wind.

Eco Factor: Farmer builds 26 robots from junk to perform daily tasks. A Chinese farmer, Wu Yulu, has proved that mechanical skills don’t come with after years of specialized education, but all that is needed is passion and patience. The farmer...

It is every kids dream, in fact it is something that all of us would love to have around our on household to help us out. Every time we look at the ‘Jetsons’ you just wish you had a robot like Rosey to help you out. Now obviously it is not...

Children have great imaginative and creative skills. Here is a good way of developing them. Let your children create whimsical robots. The fun begins by looking for old tins, boxes and junk that could be used in making robots. This is also a great...