A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
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Just in time for Fashion Week In Tokyo, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has unveiled the HRP-4C fashion model robot. As you can see in this video, the robot has a series of motors situated throughout its 5-foot tall, 95-pound body that give it a rather life-like appearance.
Continue reading… “HRP-4C Fashion Model Robot Just In Time For Tokyo Fashion Week”
Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA’s Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
Continue reading… “Small Robots Can Prepare Lunar Surface For NASA Outpost”
Albert Einstein has not only been born again, he is even more empathetic and happier than he was when he lived. Although only his head and shoulders live, this rubberized version of the genius smiles or frowns and has eyes that follow underneath the trademark Einstein shock of white hair and above the full moustache that were so much a part of his persona. Continue reading… “Einstein Lives”
Just outside of Tokyo, there’s a company called Little Island, run by Hiroaki Koike, that specializes in fashioning robotic dolls after the likenesses of real people. Continue reading… “Craft A Robotic Likeness Of Yourself”
“Research is now underway in the US to seek FDA approval for an artificial liver.”
Continue reading… “Artificial Liver”
Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot’s long and shiny arms to a visitor. Read more and MORE PICS below!!!
Continue reading… “SEX, CLEANING THE KITCHEN & HOCKEY? BEST 2009 ROBOTS(more pics below)”
He’s red and he cleans. What more could you want for Valentine’s Day? Continue reading… “Robo Vacuum”
Fester AG is a global company that specializes in automation technology. In December, the company won two very prestigious Good Design Awards in robotics and bionics from the Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture, Art Designand Urban Studies. Fester’s award winners were the AquaJelly and the AirJelly, both bio-innovative designs. Continue reading… “AquaJelly and AirJelly”
DVICE’s Steampunk Cylon contest is in full swing – thanks to everybody who’scontributed so far! Even though the contest is open only to residents of the U.S., anyone can send us a Steampunk Cylon design; you can’t win the contest, but you can still get featured on DVICE. Continue reading… “Steampunk Cylon”
Why mess around with flying microbots when you can get perfectly good bugs to do the work? That’s what researchers are doing with these cyborg beetles, strapping on six electrodes that might someday turn the lowly insects into eavesdropping, remote-controlled superbugs. Continue reading… “Spyin’ Cyborg Beetles”
A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE© could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives.
Continue reading… “Board Game CLUE Could Help Scientists Improve Remote Sensing”
Here’s a dream come true for those of us lazybones who find ourselves unexpectedly snowbound more often than we care to admit. Dubbed “the world’s smartest snow shovel,” i-Shovel is so intelligently automatic, it’s able to sense when there’s snow accumulation, and then busies itself with clearing off your driveway, without you lifting a finger. Continue reading… “i-Shovel”
