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TEROOS shoulder robot sneers at your taste in clothes [Video]

Chris Davies, Mar 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Life-streaming cameras aren't new, but seldom do they have eyelids. Keio University's TEROOS prototype does, however; the shoulder-mounted webcam is in fact a telecommunication avatar, controlled by a remote viewer with not only six axis of movement to play with but a set of eyes that can show different expressions. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Samsung Turbo View robo-vacuum packs live video streaming

Chris Davies, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung has bred a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner with a WowWee Rovio and come up with the Tango View VC-FL87W, an autonomous cleaner which can beam live video back from its onboard webcam. If you're the paranoid type and you're not going to give up your mistrust of the home help even if you've replaced them with robots, then you can log in remotely via your smartphone or tablet and see what the Samsung Tango View is up to. Read The Full Story

Qbo open-source robot no longer naked

Chris Davies, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

It's been a while since we've seen movement from the Qbo open-source robot project; last we heard, the tubby little 'bot had been fully spec'd up and the company was hard at work on speech recognition and a custom Ubuntu OS. Now the company has taken delivery of a whole heap of final chassis molds, ready to clad the naked Qbo you can see waiting patiently for its new outfit. Read The Full Story

Kaspar The “Friendly” Robot For Autistic Children

Rue Liu, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [6]

Over the years, we've seen all sorts of humanoid robots ranging from the very life-like to the ghostly that were all created to serve mankind from telepresence to assisting the elderly. Although the robot population seems concentrated in Japan, today we happen upon Kaspar, a robot from London that researchers have developed to help autistic children. Read The Full Story

NAO Robot gets awesome charger it can connect itself

Shane McGlaun, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

I think that the little NAO Robot is a really cool toy that would be a lot of fun to play with. We talked about the NAO robot earlier this month and the thing is still being developed and tweaked. A company called Aldebaran robotics has developed a really cool charger for the NAO that the robot can connect itself to when charging is needed. Read The Full Story

Geminoid-DK human-realistic robot both creepy and incredible [Video]

Chris Davies, Mar 7th 2011 Discuss [3]

Robots with beards; truly, we are wading through the future. Geminoid-DK is the handiwork of Japanese firm Kokoro and robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, designed to look exactly like similarly-bearded Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Google Demos Self-Driving Robot Car At TED

Rue Liu, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

An idea you almost always see in movies set in the future is the self-driving car. Passengers simply step in and the car will whisk them to their desired location. Google has brought us one step closer to that after they showed off their self-driving car program at TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) this week in Long Beach. Read The Full Story

NAO: A Robot with a Heart Powered by Intel

Samia Perkins, Mar 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel and Aldebaran have collaborated to created NAO, a robot with a heart powered by Intel Atom. He's teeny, the size of a large newborn baby: only 53cm in height, and weighs 4kg (Ok, about 21 inches and 9lbs). Nao can be customized with a wide range of accessories, and can be used for many different purposes. He can even dance flamenco. See the video after the break. Read The Full Story

Husqvarna launches robotic lawn mower dubbed Automower 305

Shane McGlaun, Feb 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Husqvarna has been around for a long time and way back in the day the company made some dirt bikes. Today it is more known for lawn and garden items like lawnmowers. The latest offering from Husqvarna is a sweet robotic lawnmower for the person with a smaller yard called the Automower 305. Read The Full Story

NEC PaPeRo robot coaxes out the elderly, researchers discover

Chris Davies, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

We may have a soft spot for NEC's PaPeRo robot because of his endearingly huge eyes and squat little body, but the Japanese company's latest research suggests that the companion 'bot does in fact have a tangible impact on elderly people it accompanies. NEC ran a month-long trial in late 2010, pairing up the autonomous PaPeRo with elderly testers, and found that when the robot fed them with up to date activity information, local events and news, over 80-percent reported more life satisfaction, and 25-percent actually began doing more activities outside of the home. Read The Full Story

Android phone of the future?

Rue Liu, Jan 26th 2011 Discuss [1]

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Japan's Osaka University never fails to fascinate us with his amazingly life-like robotic creations. However, his latest creation, the Telenoid R1 is very different. Designed as a way of remote communication, the Telenoid R1 aims to make you feel as though the other person on the line is right there with you. What better way to stay connected? Read The Full Story

FujiSoft PALRO robot learns English [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

FujiSoft's PALRO just keeps getting better, with the original educational robot getting an object-recognition upgrade late last year, and now learning English. Seemingly suggesting a launch outside of the current Japan-only market, the Atom-based 'bot can now maintain a conversation with English users. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story