Tag Archive for 'robots'
Designing a robot with the same locomotive system as a single-cell amoeba is all well and good, but I’m a little concerned about the future of Virginia Tech’s invention. Yes, it means that uneven or difficult terrain could be crossed without concern over wheels or tracks getting caught, but don’t you often find that developments [...]
Jenn over at Pocketables obviously knows me pretty damn well - she spotted this lovely little Robot Chick by SegaToys and thought it would make a good companion for my beloved Yume Neko Smile. And I think she’s right, although the potential for entertainment from something that looks like a couple of balls of yellow [...]
I’m a Guitar Hero addict. Granted, I still can’t beat Jordan, but then again I’ve only met one person that can, so I guess it’s not that bad. Perhaps one day this Guitar Heronoid will be able to master that horrendously difficult song.
A couple of guys set out with the task of creating a humanoid [...]
I know a good portion of us are a bit limited on desk space, so pretty much everything has to be multifunctional these days. Although this little guy probably isn’t a top of the line tech product, it is a simple way to help cleanup the clutter. The Flexible Robot Clock can tell [...]
Better known, perhaps, for titting about on a Segway, Dean Kamen occasionally reminds us all that he’s an inventor not to be underestimated. For every two-wheeled steed in Steve Wozniak’s stable there’s an equivalent “let’s do some good” development like the IBOT balancing wheelchair. Latest on the list is a robotic prosthetic arm for members [...]
He might star in TV ads, but we all know ASIMO is a closet alcoholic; the press releases blaming an “inner ear infection” for his notorious mid-performance falls aren’t fooling anyone, Honda. And now he has competition, in the form of the sashaying Anybots Dextor, the world’s first dynamically balanced robot.
If you thought a robot cat was cool, how about a wall-climbing robot gecko! The indecently clever Sangbae Kim has spent the past few years looking at the Van der Waal-force harnessing feet of the lizard, which use microscopic hairs to form close bonds with a surface and thus adhere to them, and mimic that [...]
Back when I was having swimming lessons at school, one of the tasks we had to complete in order to get a certificate was collecting a rubber brick from the deep-end of the pool. I’m not sure exactly what this was designed to prepare us for - working for a miserly and slippery-fingered brick layer [...]
Last October I pledged to make it my life’s work to acquire Sega Toys’ adorable Yume Neko Smile, a robot cat that momentarily seized the blogosphere with its lifelike movements and blinking eyes. True to my post, I emailed Sega and begged/cajoled/threatened them, sadly never to receive a reply. Then, early in December, [...]
I’m a big fan of modding, so when I run across something like this, I feel compelled to share it. Someone has created a device that will play their Xbox 360 for them.
