While some robots are made to teach you something, or even go easy on your pocket book, this little do it yourself LEGO robot is just about the coolest thing we've seen today. There's a lot going on here, especially with the inclusion of the Motorola Droid suspended over the Rubik's cube in question, but we have to admit. The fact that this application allows for the Android-powered handset to solve a cube we've never come close to solving in just 25 seconds is mighty impressive.
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Motorola Droid Solves a Rubik’s Cube Thanks to LEGO Robot [Video]
Robot Balances on a Ball for Best Act in Town [Video]
Robots can look amazing, or they can look about as simple, and fundamentally robotic. But, either way, they can usually do some pretty impressive things if the right mind is behind them. This time around, while it may not seem all that exciting, one scientist has created a robot that can successfully balance on a ball, as it moves around on the floor. There's even a video to prove it, if you don't believe us. Just take a look after the jump.
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WowWee Rovio gets mind control with Emotiv headset [Video]
WowWee's Rovio has already seen several DIY remote control hacks - whether it's from your Android phone or via an E Ink board - but this is perhaps the best yet. Robert Oschler has hooked up an Emotiv Epoq EEG headset allowing him (with some nifty software in-between) to control Rovio using thoughts, facial gestures and head movements.
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Robot has its own beer fridge, radio, and robot arm
I like robots and I like cold drinks so it's a win-win when you can combine the two. A guy over at Make has developed a cool robot that has a small fridge for delivering beer along with a radio and a robotic arm that I totally had when I was a kid.
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Android voice-recognition used for Cellbot control [Video]
The group of DIY robot builders over at Cellbots decided that Android's native voice recognition system was too good to be wasted on drunk-dialling your mother and searching for the latest sports scores, and so they added support for voice control to their 'bot platform. Intended as a low-cost way to make a potentially autonomous robot, using an Android phone (in this case T-Mobile's G1) as the brain, with the addition of voice recognition you can now tell the Cellbots robot exactly what you want it to do.
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Dental Students Practice on Robot, Her Name is Hanako
Ah, robots. They're the fascination of some of the world's most popular science fiction tales, and for many people, are the messengers of doom. And while we'd be quick to dispel any of those maddening rumors, we have to take a step back and reevaluate the situation when we see things like this. Sure, it's only a robot that simulates a dental experience, but what's next? Only your imagination (or, the imagination of some scientists somewhere) knows the answer to that. In any case, meet Hanako. She's a dental patient simulator.
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Latest Takeshi Maeda OmniZero ‘bot breaks cover
We've written about Takeshi Maeda's prize-winning robots before - last time it was the OmniZero.9, complete with some wicked looking arm blades - but his latest 'bot has us more than a little worried. The new OmniZero marks a change in design direction for Maeda, and to our eyes looks a little reminiscent of the Cylon centurions from Battlestar Galactica.
Obviously the new robot is a long way from wiping out humanity and sending its scrappy survivors on a cross-galaxy quest, but given its predecessor was strong enough to carry a person we're hoping Maeda is keeping a close eye on it. Saying that, it's obviously becoming something of an obsession: Maeda even had second thoughts about painting the robot, out of concern that the decoration could actually push it over the weight limits of the Japanese robot trials.
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DIY R2D2 gets super-detailed build log [Video]
Having spent almost two years putting together his to-scale R2D2 - complete with authentic sound effects - Victor Franco is now attempting perhaps an even tougher challenge: documenting the whole thing. The 140lb robot has become a mainstay at charity and publicity events, and can be completely remote-controlled.
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Gaaglebot hacked Roomba indexes your house [Video]
Google's attempts to index the world are all well and good, but it still can't tell you - no matter what The Onion would have you believe - where things are in your house. Some Swedish modders have attempted to fill that gap, however, with the Gaaglebot, a modified Roomba outfitted with a compact webserver and a webcam. The idea is that the robot roams about your house, shooting photos of any text it finds and converting that into a searchable database.
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DIY Barbot uses breast-milk pumps [Video]
Ah, the future. Tinfoil suits, robots that make us drinks. It may not yet be socially-acceptable to wrap yourself in aluminum foil and roam the streets, but with a little DIY work - and three breast-milk pumps - you can certainly create the automatic barbot of your dreams.
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Robots to teach in Korean classrooms by 2012
We’ve recently seen a massive project involving a robot-based theme park soon to be undertaken in Korea, but the Koreans apparently have decided to take it one step further. The country has planned a “R-Learning” program that in fact will place robot teaching assistants in 500 preschools in 2012, and expand to 8000 education centers (preschools and kindergartens) by 2013.
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Korea to erect world’s first robot-based theme park
Korea has plans to construct what is purportedly the world’s first robot theme park, reported by the Korea Herald. It will be featured as an integral part of the designated Robot Land, a planned complex based in Incheon, a major South Korean city and transportation center.
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