Tag Archive for 'robots'
It has been said that money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy a lot of things that make you happy. This is certainly not one of them, unless you are a kid around the age of 3 or older with a big fan crush on Hello Kitty.
How many times have you been bored of an afternoon and decided to put together a model? Perhaps you fancied putting together model Gundams. That’s really not all that unusual as it’s quite popular, especially in Japan. Though apparently over there a group of people were tired of putting together small scaled replicas.
Pretty much everyone has had at least one if not several bad experiences in hospitals. Well this robotic doctor was created to try to make your stay at the hospital a little better.
Admitting this might make me a childish geek, but I don’t care: when I saw this awesome, huge collection of Transformers on eBay I wanted to squeal. I imagine there are an awful lot of other people who’ll have similar reactions to a set of toys that so encapsulates a childhood era. They’ve been gathered [...]
WowWee’s Roboquad gives me the creeps. There, I’ve said it. It’s Robosapien may have been a vaguely friendly ape-like bot, but this multi-legged arachnoid/crab hybrid monster thing obviously triggers some long-forgotten childhood fears of mine. Maybe I was attacked by Mark Tilder wearing a spider suit. Anyway, PC Mag have tested out the white beast, [...]
If your idea of a playful robot companion is one of those tinted security camera globes on some freaky spider-like legs, then Radiopulse’s showcase RoboBlock might be the oddball for you. The six-legged gold beastie has been outfitted with a ZigBee wireless chip, allowing for remote control via a modified PlayStation controller.
When you hear “power suit” your first thought is probably massive shoulder-pads and the kind of lapels you could cut cheese on, but to Japanese company Matsushita Electric it’s just the first step in their plan to augment feeble humanity with a robot exoskeleton.
I’m not a lazy person and I’ll tell you this, I’ve always opened a beer bottle using my teeth. However having a robot that store and keep my beer chilled and even serve it to me is pretty cool.
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It’s cool to be rescued by a robot when you get injured, but the Hanuri-RT rescue robot is not a rescuer I would wish for when I fall down from my race bike. The Hanuri-RT requires the injured person to be able to climb up to its top and squat down in order for it [...]
We’ve seen the oddly-shaped ZMP Miuro before - the bonbon-like iPod speaker dock has a WiFi connection built in and can follow you around the house playing your music. Of course, you could also record the sound of a nagging partner to give you that “married two years and the gloss is wearing off” feeling. [...]
