Tag Archive for 'robots'
As much as I admire the technology inside Wow Wee’s latest, the Roboquad, there’s something about a scuttling spider-robot that freaks me out. Perhaps it’s partly to do with the degree of AI that makes him inquisitive all of his own accord. Using the supplied remote control would be one thing, but having it suddenly [...]
Bloody great big robots seem to go hand in hand with car commercials; of course there was the dancing, ice-skating Citroen C4 ads, and now Nissan in Japan are getting in on the action with their “Powered Suit” concept, a campaign to push the otherwise bland DUALIS SUV.
Finding buried treasure is one of those things that’s on my to-do list but I never get around to catching up with, so I should probably give seasoned seeker John Corney a call; he’s fashioned a remote control detector using a toy truck as donor.
For some reason I can’t look at MIT’s Leonardo robot without an involuntary shudder - I think it’s the lifelike fur and the evil, calculating eyes. Even scarier is to see it in motion (and there are videos after the cut), when complex facial mapping techniques have taken human expressions and reworked them for the robot’s [...]
Ugobe’s friendly little robot dinosaur, Pleo, seems to have had a brush with extinction. Original plans to fit a non-user-replaceable rechargeable battery - which would last a few years but then, like laptop cells, refuse to hold a charge - have been scrapped in the face of public concern that their prehistoric buddy would meet [...]
Got a Nintendo DS? Bored of gaming? Well, rather than use it as a wedge for a very wobbly table, why not repurpose your multi-screened console as the brains of a tri-wheeled robot: natrium42 will be happy to sell you the appropriate parts.
A while back ago Cyberdyne showed off their latest Hybrid Assistive Limb exoskeleton HAL-5. It was designed with the idea of letting the elderly and disabled rediscover their lost strength.
Feeling a little mischievous? The Echo Bot will definitely help you think of a whole new round of pranks.
The Echo Bot is a small robot that will record up to 10 seconds of whatever your heart desires. The when someone walks within one meter of it, it will echo what you said. [...]
Remember this rubbery little bugger? Yes, that’s right, it’s Pleo - the robot dino who’s almost guaranteed to kick every other home automaton out of the playroom and into the trash compactor. Back in February we brought you news that Ugobe was promising ten of the cold-blooded cuties to winners of an essay competition. Entrants [...]
The steam powered R2-D2 or R2-S2 (R2 Steam Too) from CrabFu. It moves at the speed of a mighty snail, but you can’t help but love it anyway.
