04/03/2012, Remember the super villain from the Marvel Universe known as Sandman? Yeah, I know that the guy was down on his luck and did not manage to handle his feelings correctly, resulting in him venting his angst on the world [...]
03/29/2012, Robots look set to feature prominently in our society down the road, as technology advances to ever more impressive levels. Recently, a research group at Osaka University were working on a robot hand for tele-handshaking purposes, where it is capable [...]
03/21/2012, We know for a fact that many sharks are needlessly killed each year for their fins, not to mention out of sheer terror because of the movie “Jaws” that was released all those years ago, making some of us develop [...]
03/20/2012, The DARwin-OP humanoid robot has just gotten an upgrade which should make it happy, assuming robots can feel and have emotions in the first place. Robotis, the manufacturer behind the majority of the servos, electronics, and hardware which can be [...]
03/19/2012, Humans interacting with robots, we have been doing it for quite some time already, although the robots in question are not those autonomous droids that you see in movies like Star Wars and Star Trek, but rather, machines that helped [...]
03/19/2012, Beer, the nectar of the gods, has for thousands of years helping ugly people look good, and there is always an excuse to drink, whether it is to drown your sorrows or to celebrate your favorite sports team’s victory. Well, [...]
03/18/2012, I have always said that should you want to have the latest and greatest “big boy’s toys” to play around with, there is no better workforce to join than the military. After all, our men and women in uniform should [...]
03/15/2012, The Boxie DIY robot is something different from all of the other robotic creations that we have seen so far. This social, semi-autonomous robot creation is the brainchild of Alexander Reben of MIT’s Media Lab, where it is capable of [...]
03/14/2012, The Pacific Ocean has seen its fair share of records broken, and for today, we will celebrate swimming robots that are made out of a couple of parts, where they propelled themselves to a new world distance record without requiring [...]
03/12/2012, I personally enjoyed Real Steel a whole lot when the movie was released last year, and for good reason, too, considering how the movie had the right balance of human character development as well as developing an emotional attachment between [...]
03/09/2012, While many countries around the globe today do suffer from a lack of jobs, you need not worry if you are this particular robot that was developed by Russian researchers. Coming in a humanoid form factor, the robot is also [...]
03/09/2012, [CeBIT 2012] German scientists who hail from the Fraunhofer Institute did show off their ‘sketching robot’ that is currently being paraded at CeBIT, the world’s largest computer fair that is happening Cebit, in Hanover, Germany. Just how does the robot [...]
03/07/2012, A fire on a ship is one of the worst fears of a sailor for the longest time (add a nuclear meltdown in a submarine to the list in keeping up with the times), and meeting Davy Jones and his [...]
03/07/2012, ‘Xiaotu’ is ‘little library’ in the Chinese language, and this unique computer bot is smart enough to learn as it communicates with humans through conversations. However, university authorities had to pull the plug on Xiaotu’s cyber services during the course [...]