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more about #robotics more comments → FuturePastNow: Robot Teddy Bear From HELL. This, truly, is the stuff nightmares are made of. more » Hi, I'm God: America! Fuck yeah! Commin' again to save the motha' fuckin' day yeah! Bearica! Fuck yeah! more » albokay: number 5 is ALIVE!!!!! more » Prolorn: I'm impressed they actually dressed BEAR up to look like a bear. Although IMHO the head looks more like a cat, but eh, whatever. I totally agree with... more » PaddyDugan: An' for all 'is alloy 'ide 'E was 'eart, all 'eart inside When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire! (later) Though I've beaten and I've flayed you,... more » Tenno: I love the first pic. I hope it lets out a "RAAAARRRRR" when it breaks down doors and flails its arms. more » KTK1990: I wonder what they will think of next. Search and find dogs? Meerkat robots that stand up really high with night vision eyes and thermal viewing. more » Pew Pew BOOM: "Sure, the BEAR robot is a bit terrifying to look at" It's at least 100 times better than any one of those humanoids from Japan. more » DustyButt™: Word has it that you have to have a degree in programming binary load lifters to operate these things. more » Scotland: . more » taytck30692: I have a feeling this will replace real bears as the number one threat to America. more » Julius Seizure - Canuck: Cylon v0.0.1 Oh, dear, this won't end well. more » Reil: Lifehacker Ninja Stars: I'd like to see a version of this video, but with picking up progressively more absurd objects. It can even scoop up my dignity! more » Verno77: Finally, a reason to leave everything on the floor! more » switchblade saints: "Roomba, beer! see Jim, now thats easy living. want some nachos? Roomba! make that nachos and a beer!" more » -
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Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot Is a Real Care BEAR
Sure, the BEAR robot is a bit terrifying to look at, but one day, after you discover the pipe bomb your estranged wife left in the mailbox, this automaton could very well save your life. More » -
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Modded Roomba Doesn't Just Pick Things Up, It Hands Them To You
Watch how a modified Roomba is picky enough to find, scoop up, and lift objects as small as a quarter. Potential uses of this mod could benefit the elderly and the lazy. [Vimeo via Robots.net] -
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Bossa Nova Penbo: The "First Real Robot for Girls" Is a Pink, Waddling Penguin With a Baby
The adorable pink counterpart to Prime-8, Penbo is supposedly the "first real robot for girls." It uses the same locomotion tech derived from the buggy RHex robot, but cutified so it waddles: More » -
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Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot
What's special about Bossa Nova's Prime-8 robot—a $100 descendant of DARPA and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute's $20,000-a-pop all-terrain RHex designed for 10-year-old boys? It's the fastest bipedal toy robot ever. Just watch. More »WalksRuns on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits -
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TapeScape 'Bot Turns Old Boombox Into Glitch Music Automaton
Using little else than the parts inside an old GE boombox, Michael Colombo made TapeScape, a robot that front-mounts the jambox's tape head and uses it to follow strips of cassette tapes on the ground. More » -
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Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200
Products like the Human Assistive Limb exoskeleton have a frustrating tendency to remain in the labs and universities that spawned them, usually for reasons of impracticality or cost. But this one is going mainstream. More » -
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Soft Robotics Offer the Automatons Yet Another Way to Take Over the Earth
Between this post about "soft robots," those nanotube muscles we talked about earlier this week, and the last scene of Battlestar Galactica, I have no doubt that our future is very robotic indeed. More » -
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These Carbon Nanotube Muscles Are 30 Times Stronger Than Human Muscles
These next gen carbon nanotube muscles have "diamond-like" stiffness side to side, but are as flexible as rubber when moved perpendicularly. When voltage is applied to the structures, they contract with a pulling force 30 times the force per unit of human muscles. More » -
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Hexbug Robot Ants Can Outrace Real Cockroaches
Hexbug's touch-and-sound-sensitive mini-robots have always moseyed, not scurried. But their latest, the Ant, locomotes with wheel legs—not quite a wheel, not quite a leg—zippily enough to give real bugs a run for their money. More » -
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Vex Walker Inspired By Terrifyingly Beautiful Beach Walkers
The latest Vex prototype robot kit is just called Walker—a generically oblique name that somehow makes it scarier—and is inspired by Dutch artist Theo Jansen's terrifyingly beautiful beach creatures. More » -
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Inside Asimo Takes Your Robotic Relationship To The Next Level
Asimo is the de facto face of modern robotics, but how much do you really know about him? The new Inside Asimo page explains it all, with interactive animations, diagrams and requisite robo-charm. More » -
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Mad Roboticist Re-Creates Einstein's Head, This Time With More Feeling
David Hanson, the roboticist who brought us the creepy cybernetic substitute son Zeno, is now offering an empathetic smiling Einstein bot for our general horrification. More » -
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Autonomous Cyclops Robot Will School You At Pong Every Time
Using a cyclopean webcam mounted on a telescoping neck and two solenoid fingers, this robot will dutifully and adorably Pong you into oblivion. More » -
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TOFU Robot Has More Soul, Better Moves Than 95% of Humans
You heard it here first folks! The future of robotics is furry, smooth, and extremely sassy. [BoingBoing Gadgets, FastCompany] -
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I've Got Two Kuka Robot Arms and a Microphone
I learn something new about robots every day. These Kuka industrial robot arms have been used to power amusement park rides, and apparently, make fine German avant-garde electronic DJs. More » -
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Waalbot Wall Climbing Robot Could Put Spiderman to Shame
Though news of the Waalbot actually surfaced last fall, EngineeringTV has good footage of the gecko-like robot in action. The Waalbot has two legs with three micro-suction adhesive pods each, letting one pod stay attached to the wall while the other two rotate forward. It is also an autonomous bot with an RF transmitter on its back, allowing for wireless control. This is cool and all, but is it too much to ask for some giant-sized pods for my own usage? Check out the video below. [Carnegie-Mellon via EngineeringTV] More »
