The upcoming dorkbot New York has a very appealing programme. almost certified (grade A noise for non-discerning consumers), […]
Category Archive: robots
Wabian-2 (WAseda BIpedal humANiod-No.2), developed at the Waseda University walks like a man, moves its head, torso, arms […]
A robot examines the body of a terrorist/freedom fighter in Bagdad, Irak. Via 20 minutos.
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The Physarum polycephalum slime, which shies away from light, has been put in charge of a scrabbling, six-legged […]
NTT Communications and Tmsuk have begun testing the RFID-guided shopping assistant robots at a shoping mall in Fukuoka. […]
Once in a while, Konomi sends me a link and short translation to pictures of Japanese robot adventures. […]
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Sharp has developed a humanoid robot that clears dishes from the table and puts them into a dishwasher. […]
The 3.5-meter high robot Enryu may soon be helping communities across Japan reach avalanche sites and clear snow. […]
1575.42 MHz is a robotic arm of 6 sections, which constantly track GPS satellites. Every section of the […]
Big thanks to Konomi who forwarded and translated for me a few robot news from Japan (as he […]
Japanese personnel placement agency People Staff will soon start dispatching robots as well as humans. Robots may be […]
Scott Banks, a University of Florida engineer has designed a robot to take X-ray video of sufferers of […]
Dylan Tinlun Chan builds delightful robot toys out of junk electronic components. Jia-Yi-Bing is a series of three […]
A new project by La Fabricadecosasbonitas (The Factory of Pretty Things) has recently been awarded money as an […]
By the 2010s, Korea is expecting to see security robots assisting police and the military, patrolling the neighborhoods, […]
Beggar, a robot for the materially deprived is constructed entirely from donated old computer hardware and spare parts […]
As i’m reading, obsessing and blogging about the quest for a robotic world mainly in Korea and Japan, […]
Konomi sent me links to some amusing images of Japanese robots: From left to right: the dancing samurai […]
Scientists led by Professor David Bell from Queen’s University in Belfast have developed a mobile robot system that […]
Temps, even robotic ones, shouldn’t be treated as second class citizens! Apparently, the short was directed by Neill […]
Photosynthesis Robot, by Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine of Futurefarmers, is a possible perpetual motion machine driven by […]
I found a nice collection of Japanese robots, while browsing throught Konomi’s blogroll. Most of them are cute […]
The homepage of the notorious German satirical magazine Titanic is currently featuring a hillarious splash-screen: the Lichterkett-O-Tron. Referring […]
Researchers at Tsukuba and Tokyo University are surgically implanting roaches with a micro-robotic backpack that allows them to […]
A video about life among robots. Directed by 1st Ave Machine. Via nanoblog.
Here’s a few notes about another talk i attended during the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last […]
Remember the news on Tmsuk‘s robot Kiyomori (engadget called it samuraibot)? I read some Japanese blog posts discussing […]
Fascinating article in The Economist about the love of Japanese for robots. Made me think of the conversation […]
Two days ago, i was playing with my super-pet, wondering if he’d recognise himself in the mirror and […]
A team at Stanford University has built the prototype of an intelligent walker with embedded sensors, voice recognition […]
Anti-piracy technologies endorsed by the International Maritime Bureau include an unmanned spy plane, the Inventus UAV, for aerial […]
MIT engineers, led by Anette Hosoi, have built a robotic snail to test out mathematical models of how […]
Haile is robotic percussionist that uses computational power and numerical algorithms to listen to live players, analyze their […]
Robotic “spiders” could help build large-scale structures in space. They would inch their way across large nets of […]
Penelope Boston and Steven Dubowsky have received a grant from NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts to work on […]
Liberation, by Hisashi Murata, is an installation using a robot that unleashes itself to die whenever it comes […]
Richard Vaughan plans to launch 33 robots around the Simon Frazer University in Canada, by next spring. The […]
Yaskawa Electric‘s MOTOMAN-DA20 industrial robot can tighten bolts with one arm while lifting parts with another. It has […]
Professor Chul-Goo Kang and his colleagues at Institute for Robotics and Intelligent System of Konkuk University in Korea […]
robot clothes‘ Wildflower Meadow Glacier is an autonomous robotic sculpture that plants flowers and monitors local climate change […]