Tag Archive for 'robots'
Robert Oschler of Robodance.com has made the Nintendo Wii remote work with the RoboSapien robot that is made by WowWee. Oschler is the programmer behind the RoboSapien Dance Machine (AKA RoboDance) piece of software, which at the moment allows you to control the robot using your own voice.
Above is a video demonstrating some of the [...]
So you’ve got your army of RoboSapiens and RoboRaptors to terrorize your home or office with their little dance routines, but don’t you wish you could control them to really wreak some havoc? A new piece of software called Go-Robo will let you write your own programs to control any WowWee robot, including Robopets and [...]
While lacking the poison barb of Israel’s Bionic Hornet, the latest robot to emerge from WowWee’s stable is nonetheless impressive (and far less likely to spark international tensions). The FlyTech Dragonfly is the first robot to remain airborne via flapping its wings, as opposed to tiny propellers or jets, managing a 150 foot range and [...]
Well, you all saw the recent fall of Honda’s ASIMO robot and you thought it was over; not so. I came across an older video of ASIMO and this time he made it up the stairs but didn’t quite make it downstairs in one piece. Honda’s Humanoid Robot is currently an overprice piece [...]
If you want to frighten the younger kids this Christmas, why not give them a hacked Robosapien in the furry body of a teddy. That’s what robot-tinkerer Nocturnal from the Evosapien team has made - only so far he’s limited it to scaring his poor cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_WJ23Zg1Rg
There are plenty more hacks and tweaks for all the [...]
These would, let me tell you, make the ideal stocking filler for a robot obsessed toy-hound like myself. A friendly little set of co-operative robot buddies, the wind-up pair will happily strut around your desk until you need a pencil sharpened, at which point they’ll get to work with their internal cutting blades.
Hang on, internal [...]
Robots are cool, but robots that go underwater and mimic real living organisms are even cooler. A new exhibition called “Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006” is showcasing from December 8 until July 29, 2007 at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC. Among the many unique items on display is a bionic lobster [...]
While the rest of the world was stressing over nano-technology turning into a great green mess and consuming us like electrochemically charged yum-packs, Japanese security company ALSOK was busy developing a series of killer death robots guard robots to protect and serve. Now, for the paltry sum of $10,000 to $20,000, you can have a [...]
iRobot Corp. just released today the first public photo of their latest project, code named Sentinel. The project is developing an arsenal of semi-autonomous robots that can be simultaneously controlled via one touch-screen computer. The robots can be programmed to reach certain coordinates and be able to navigate itself pass obstacles along the way without [...]
Now we’ve got a robot with human-like hands, so that they can pinch us as we walk past, but what if we’d like to be chased around the garden first? So far the commercially available bots have been pretty darned sedentary - they can walk, sure, but they’re not going to win any speed races. [...]
