All the stories tagged with: Robots
Fujitsu Office Delivery Robot
11/12/2009, Fujitsu has teamed up with the Yokohama National University and the University of Electro-Communications when it comes to developing an Office Delivery Robot. This bad boy is able to carry up items that weigh up to 20kg, relying on stereo [...]
Hitachi EMIEW goes about on wheels
11/11/2009, The Hitachi EMIEW (Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Work-mate) moves about on its wheels, relying on technology that can be found in the Segway as well. This allows it to zip about robustly compared to bipedal robots, hitting a [...]
Unit 33 Robot Plays Football
11/10/2009, This robot certainly looks like it’s built to play basketball, what with its 7-foot height. Dubbed Unit 33, it can walk, turn, twist, bow and even play football (though they really should have tried a basketball demo). Check out the [...]
Robot Bricklayer In New York
11/10/2009, You might have checked out Gramazio & Kohler’s bricklaying robot before, but this time, the duo from Zurich’s ETH Faculty of Architecture have brought the robot to America for the first time, and have digitally fabricated a wall on Pike [...]
Robot Stealth Raygun Jet
11/10/2009, It seems that Aerospace firms are quite busy competing for a classified UK MoD contract to build a robotic military stealth aircraft. Said aircraft would be rather special, seeing that it would be able to hover like a helicopter or [...]
Mini guide robot
11/10/2009, The Mini guide robot does not live up to its namesake in terms of size, and while it won’t be up and about to the amusement of visitors and guests, this guide robot will instead be seated in your office [...]
Mitsubishi Wakamaru robot
11/06/2009, Mitsubishi doesn’t just churn out wonders like their line of Lancer Evolution cars, but they have also delved into the world of robots with the Wakamaru being one of them. Of course, forking out $15,000 for one of these might [...]
ROLA home care robot
11/05/2009, The ROLA (Robot Of Living Aid) intelligent home-care robot was developed by National Chiao Tung University of Taiwan. Capable of understanding Mandarin, Taiwanese and a smattering of English, ROLA will help keep a watchful eye on elderly occupants of a [...]
Giger The DIY Robot
11/05/2009, Interested in homemade DIY robots? Well, check out “Giger”, a nice little robot that took its creator over 100 hours and more than $10,000 to build. Apparently the reason it cost so much was because the owner decided to use [...]
Wall-E eyes transplanted
11/03/2009, At least, that’s the impression that we have with this rather curious robotic butler who seems to be in possession of Wall-E’s eyes, albeit with an overall shape and color scheme that point towards EVE as well. Apart from the [...]
Doki robot functions as PR tool
11/02/2009, Doki is a new kind of robot that relies on computer vision software, enabling it to function as a PR tool for a company of its allegiance, where its greatest strength would be facial recognition that allows it to determine [...]
Talkie Walkie mimics paper mouth
11/01/2009, Guilherme Martins is the brain behind this “Talkie Walkie”, where the robot was built based on only one servo. It is full well capable of responding to sound in real time, where it will automatically control the movements of a [...]
Toyota Delivery Robot
11/01/2009, Should the future see Toyota Delivery Robots perform their tasks admirably, we guess jealous husbands need not fear their wives of starting a relationship or tryst with the well muscled delivery guy any more. The Toyota Delivery Robot is a [...]
