All the stories tagged with robot
Robovie II helps out with shopping
12/15/2009, Some of us love grocery shopping, while others are of the opposite persuasion. For those who fall under the latter category, would a robotic assistant at the grocer’s persuade you to have a liking for shipping? This will be an [...]
Actroid up for sale
12/14/2009, What’s an actroid? It’s a wordplay on “android” and “actress”, which ends up as a robotic actor. From next month onwards, Japanese department store Sogo & Seibu will accept pre-orders for Actroid life-sized, animatronic female robots. These won’t be able [...]
Robot network in the works?
12/11/2009, ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute) is currently collaborating with Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, NTT and Mitsubishi, where this alliance is collectively known as Network Robot Forum, with the aim of developing an assisted living platform which uses a network of robots [...]
Marine creature robots
12/09/2009, Masamichi Hayashi, president of marine education establishment kyg-lab, certainly walks the talk by hand-crafting more than 100 robotic marine creatures using nothing but recycled items including plastic bottles, food containers, styrofoam, raincoats, and windshield wiper motors! This self-taught roboticist also [...]
Robot jedi looks unbelievable
12/09/2009, Just take a look at the video of this robot jedi, and be prepared to be blown. This is no fancy CGI trickery that you are watching, as it is 100% real and could very well be an extremely early [...]
Movie Mover robot
12/07/2009, Love watching movies? You basically have two choices – the cinema, or right smack in the comfort of your own home. Robot creator Rodger Cleye came up with a robot which will bring movies to you instead, dubbing it the [...]
Nao interactive robot
12/07/2009, There is no better time than Nao to get a robot, eh? Pardon the pun, but the humanoid Nao that was paraded at the 2009 International Robot Exhibition (iREX 2009) packs in a couple of cameras to help him see, [...]
POSTECH quadruped robot
12/05/2009, Looks like the South Koreans aren’t too far behind when it comes to robotics, as evident by POSTECH’s quadruped robot that might just offer Boston Dynamics’ BigDog some competition. It still has some lengths to go before it overhauls BigDog [...]
Cat Feeder Controlled Via Internet
12/02/2009, Ever wanted to take an extended trip away from your home, but couldn’t do so because there would be nobody to feed your precious kitty cat? Well, you could always build one of these electronic cat-feeders, and the best part [...]
Mini robot climbs water pipes to inspect them
12/01/2009, A bunch of researchers from Japan’s University of Electro-Communications have conjured a mini robot which is capable of moving around freely within water and gas pipes as long as they measure 10cm or more in diameter. This robot will move [...]
Plawres Sanshiro finally makes it to robot stage
12/01/2009, The Plawres Sanshiro has made the leap to the promised land, being a robot at long last after more than two decades languishing in the annals of comic books and an animated TV series. This is made possible thanks to [...]
Salt and Pepper Bots
12/01/2009, Want to add some touch of tech and modernity on your dining table? How about getting a pair of these Salt and Pepper Bots to spice up your conversations while having a meal with family and friends? They can even [...]
Robo-one dance competition
11/30/2009, Forget about Michael Jackson popularizing and refining the robot dance – we’re talking about real robots dancing here at the Robo-one dance competition, where these bipedal mechanical wonders attempt to impress you with their slick moves, putting us humans to [...]
