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Robot Turns Your Voice Into Musical Score


In our endless coverage of robots with extremely specific functions, here's a model that analyzes the cadence of human voice and transforms the speech into a multi-instrument song—providing a sort of hyper-personalized soundtrack, the ultimate mix tape, if you will. Unfortunately, the robot lacks a mixer, synthesizer and whoopee cushion, so it's not getting all that close to reproducing our mad-melodious vocals. [via BBGadgets] More »

4:00 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Mark Wilson
2,013 views, 25 comments

robots

Israeli Military Guardian Vehicle is Like the Batmobile Without Batman Driving

Other than taking obvious influences from the Tumbler from Batman Begins, this Israeli Guardium unmanned patrol shares more in common with the iRobot PackBot than Batman's roof-hopping car. The Guardium can either be self-controlled or steered by an operator miles away, and is loaded with cameras, night-vision sensors and machine guns. Unlike the PackBot, which demands that a human be in the loop at all times, the Guardium can be autonomous if the need arises. Let's just hope its programming is really, really good and it doesn't go off killing because it thought it saw a ghost. [Fox News via NewLaunches]

5:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Jason Chen
6,628 views, 42 comments

Latest by iTheophilus: @Rabid Penguin: Erm, see here, that just isn't right now. I say this as someone who has visited Israel, liked the country and the people, and absolutely believe in its right to exist. I also agree that people in more »

forest fire clear cut robot

Giant Robot Ready To Stop Giant Fires, Giantly

Sure, it's only a model of a dual-saw-wielding giant robot, but we can't help but to admire one man's vision of an autonomous future of fighting forest fires. The Forest Fire "Clear Cut" Robot (model) has 600 parts and took its creator 6 months to complete. What it represents is a tool prepared to slice and dice trees as necessary to stop the spread of flames in fictional, wilderness settings. Because remember, only you (and gigantic, badass robots with blades bigger than your body) can prevent forest fires. But it's mostly on the robots at this point, honestly. Here's a bonus pic: More »

8:49 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,029 views, 58 comments

Latest by B.Zanetti: i thought that maybe the guy was real. Needless to say I was extremely disappointed after the jump when I found out that it wasn't even an actual-size model. total bummer. more »

robots

uBOT-5 Makes Life Alert Look Like Crap

You're old, weak and your bastard kids want to put you in a home. The uBOT-5 could one day offer a solution that could help you maintain your independence without having to resort to depressing nursing homes or lame Life Alert badges. Thanks to researchers at the University of Massachusetts, their uBOT-5 robot is capable of picking up small objects, dialing 911 and even using a stethoscope to check vitals. More »

8:30 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,080 views, 43 comments

Latest by Diamondblade: MORAL: You can't cut the boxing Terminators legs off and expect it to die. more »

art

Andre Kutscherauer Robot Art Reminds Us Not to be Cocky

Check out these awesome CGI images, all put together by Andre Kutscherauer, a super-talented 3D artist. The works all include some form of evil robot madness, and with titles such as Brute Force, Selfillumination and Dandelion of Screws, how could we be anything but massively impressed? If you think we're talking junk, as usual, dive into the gallery and be amazed by the fantastic art installations. For the record, that little light bulb was just asking for moth based trouble—we'd be surprised if he doesn't have his head shattered in no time. That's the problem with being too clever for your own good; given enough cord, you'll plug yourself in...or something like that. [ak3d via io9]


10:30 PM on Sat Apr 12 2008
By Haroon Malik
16,944 views, 31 comments

Latest by auroragb: Question is: "Is it plugging itself in or unplugging itself?" more »

iron man

Iron Man's First Flight Shows Jet-Like HUD, Every Boy's Fantasy

Just like every man under the age of 30 still believes that with enough discipline, training, and working out there's the possibility that he could in fact become the Batman, every man thinks that with the right suit he could fly up and shoot rockets at tanks. More »

2:01 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Jason Chen
20,113 views, 96 comments

alien robot love

Earth's First Close Encounter of the Alien Kind Will Be More Toaster Than Number Six

Forget little green men, Vulcans or super-sexy Number Six's slinking about the 'verse in little red cocktail dresses—some scientists say our first encounter with E.T. will likely involve a simple robot. For proof, says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, you need only to look at our own species' advances in robotics. But then the 'scientists' in this MSNBC Battlestar Galactica puff piece get a little crazy. Human-cyborg relations? Marriage? That'll only work in Massachusetts! More »

4:00 PM on Sat Apr 5 2008
By Jack Loftus
3,402 views, 26 comments

Latest by N@tedog: If a probe were robust enough to make the trip here I'd have to imagine it would be fairly simple is design. Maybe just a locator beacon in some fancy metal alloy. This is assuming the intelligent alien life doesn't more »

war robots

Wiimote, iPhone are New Tools of War

David Bruemmer and Douglas Few, engineers at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls, have put together an unlikely use for the Wiimote—they've hacked the remote so it can control a bomb-disposing, landmine-detecting, machine gun-carrying robot. More »

8:30 PM on Sat Mar 29 2008
By Haroon Malik
5,688 views, 16 comments

robots

Sporty Robot Webcam With Choice of Balls, the MPC-095

A posable sports robot-theme webcam, with a choice of ball: basketball, baseball and football (US and Euro style). Who'd've thought there's a market for this? Chinese company Rodintech for one, though a trip through their website shows that they'll try and stick a USB webcam in just about anything. This MPC-095 has a 350 kilopixel CMOS sensor, plus the regulation built-in mic for your video-calling needs. Sorry, posable sporty robot theme webcam fans, there's no info on price or availability. [Rodintech via Geek Alerts]

6:14 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,344 views, 4 comments

Latest by Way: @Curves: Hehe. more »

robots

Toshiba's ApriPoko: a Remote Controller Companion Robot

Toshiba's new robot pal is basically a voice-operated infrared universal remote control, heavy on the cuteness. Programmed to be fairly smart, he'll wait until you use a controller for your electronics, then ask you what you were doing: the next time you want to perform the same action, you just have to tell ApriPoko to do it for you. He'll then wave his IR transmitter arm and *bing*, on goes your TV. He's even equipped with a camera to identify users, presumably to learn their habits. For now he's just an R&D demonstrator device, and is limited to simple commands. We hope we're right in expecting the technology to make its way into consumer gadgets soon. [Robot Watch]

3:37 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,923 views, 23 comments

Latest by dasnake: Finally a remote for my dad so he wont have to pick up remotes just to turn something on! more »

robots

ABB FlexPicker Robot's Legs Move So Fast it's Scary

The ABB IRB 340 FlexPicker's legs instantly put me in mind of a kind of merciless Matrixesque robot, snatching up human bodies and doing terrible things to them. But apparently, it's the world's fastest industrial robot, and is used to pick and sort items on a production line— innocent things like sausages and croissants. By fastest, it means 10g of acceleration: that's zero to 280mph in a single second. Which makes for one heck of a rapid sausage, as the fascinating (and eerily Matrix-like) video reveals. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
20,314 views, 51 comments

Latest by bu11etman: Cool stuff. Who are cleaning this machines so they stay hygenic? Do they leak oil into my muffin? All collage educated ppl cant eat all those muffins? And the workers who lost their jobs for this machines cant afford muffins? more »

robot vacuum

Samsung Hauzen VC-RE70V Vacuum is Roomba's Clever Cousin

As well as hanging out with attractive women on the bed, Samsung's new Hauzen VC-RE70V robot vacuum has some clever tech inside. It actually uses a camera to generate a map of your room, so it knows where it has already cleaned. When it's low on juice it hunts down its charging base for power, and then zooms back to where it had got to before. Of course it also does obstacle avoidance with 15 sensors, but that's not as cool as the mapping function. If it had internet connectivity, it'd be the sort of thing you'd end up watching for hours as it zipped around your home ... well, maybe. Out in Korea this month, we don't know the price. [i4u and Akihabaranews]

9:38 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,724 views, 21 comments

Latest by Aaron Martin-Colby: Anything would be an improvement over the Roomba/Scooba. After two months of use I was very disappointed. more »

dealzmodo

Dealzmodo: Talking Elvis Robot Only $99

The Talking Elvis robot is on sale at the WowWee store for just $99. Depending on how you look at it, that's either $200 less than it should be, or $99 too much. Either way, if you can't make room for a creepy hunk o' burning love in your living room, then... you're probably smarter than us. [WowWee]

4:30 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Benny Goldman
1,760 views, 13 comments

graffiti

"Couleur Sur l'Object" Graffiti Robot Turns Vandalism All-Electronic

Designer Stefan Rechsteiner has come up with the Couleur sur l'Objet concept as a modern way of applying "urban art" to walls in hard-to-reach places. Equipped with a can of spray paint, the little tyke would be like a badly-behaved roomba with a vacuum-suction mod to keep it in place. With its accompanying design software, you could presumaby use to it create large-scale murals on walls that would previously have required some serious (and conspicuous) ladder-work. Town councils everywhere had better invest in new grafitti-cleaning tech of their own— we suspect this won't remain a concept for too long. [Yanko Design]

7:00 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,268 views, 12 comments

Latest by sixtoe: Unfortunately for Designer Stefan Rechsteine, I've already developed a paint-resistant wall coating (concept only), rendering this concept obsolete. Nice try, though. more »

clean up

OSP Robot Is Human Sized Roomba For Oil Spills

Designer Ji-hoon Kim has come up with an ingenuous idea for cleaning up oil spills. Using various features such as boom control modules, solar panels, oil protection boom, communication modules, boom connectors, and propulsion modules the OSP robots work together to surround an oil spill site with an inflatable barrier. Once the site has been contained the cleaning crews can easily remove the oil from the water. If saving the planet wasn't cool enough, an OSP robot is actually the size of a grown human and a group of bots can easily be deployed via helicopter or boat. The only thing we can think of to make these bots better is a speaker that would play their slogan as they work, DEPLOY - UNITE - SIEGE. [Yanko Design]

4:10 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Christopher Mascari
3,099 views, 21 comments

Latest by Knirfie: thats a lot of boom. more »

science

iCub Baby Robot to Undergo Developmental Training, Still Isn't a Real Kid

Those spiffing fellows at the University of Plymouth, UK are undertaking a research project involving a baby-bot named iCub, which will see the robot actually learn how to speak. The three-foot high robot will help researchers deduce how language is taught, but the further reaching impact of the study include the prospect of developing humanoid robots that can learn, think and talk. Sure, Steven Speilberg has already envisioned such a future, but how far off was he? More »

8:00 PM on Sat Mar 1 2008
By Haroon Malik
8,067 views, 28 comments

Latest by riversidelocal: why do so many people insist on creating robots, terminator movies are now coming to life, thanx for dooming us all damn robotics engineers. more »

art

WizKid Device Stretches its Neck to be Friends With You

Wizkid is a technological artwork exploring the human-machine interface, a bit like the eerie-eyeball OptoIsolator or the Mind Chair. Programmed to notice you walking nearby, it homes in on your face, stretching and twisting its neck to point its screen at you. With a bunch of gestures you can tell it to play games or browse information pages, and it even anticipates your desires—perhaps by slipping on some freeform jazz fusion when you walk in the door (hopefully, without then trying to seduce you). Intrigued? There's more info below the gallery. More »

7:33 AM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,520 views, 7 comments

Latest by Abnormal: Johnny 5 is alive! more »

robots

Kota the Triceratops Is Amazing, Eats Deep-Fried Pleos for Breakfast

I'm in awe with Kota The Triceratops Dinosaur, a $300 fully articulated 40-inch-long robot in the shape of a real-sized baby triceratops that, according to Playskool, any kid can ride. Yes. Full size. Baby. Triceratops. Riding. Robot. Really, this thing looks so cool that makes the Pleo look like a bag of bricks. More »

1:53 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Jesus Diaz
20,070 views, 48 comments