Life-sized Gundam Wakes Up, Destroys Enemies, Takes a Nap?
If you are planning to go on vacation this July and you like huge robots (of the anime variety, not LG product ninja skinjobs), get a ticket to Japan, visit the Fuji entertainment park and get drunk with sake! https://gizmodo.com/lg-kh1300-its-fast-maybe-faster-than-this-red-bus-240273 OK, so that last part is my plan anyway, but you can’t miss this 59-feet…
Hello Kitty Angel of Death Robot Ploughs Corpses
I had the pleasure of meeting BEAR today, a Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot designed by Vecna Robotics. Although BEAR is intended to aid in building excavation and long-distance transport, his main purpose is to replace the guy who was last to call "Not it!" when it came to fetching the dead bodies in the trenches…
Claytronics: Programmable Nano-matter Creates Objects, Bad Fake Ads, Lousy Actors
This is Claytronics, a concept technology “formed by billions of microscopic robots, each with computational abilities and sensors that enable interaction.” In theory, it will allow you to create 3D objects directly and manipulate them in real time. Like Silly Putty but smart, animated and without all the mess. I truly hope that Claytronics becomes…
NEC PaPeRo Mini: New Smaller, Smarter Robot Keeps Freaking People Out
Here’s PaPeRo again. And this time he comes in a bite-size format. Or better said, in kick-that-ball-mutha format, since he keeps freaking me out just like his bigger, older brother, by now hopefully dismantled and rotting in some landfill near Osaka. https://gizmodo.com/blogging-robot-to-kill-take-jobs-of-human-giz-writers-241561 PaPeRo Mini only measures 179 x 170 x 250 milimeters (9.84 inches high)…
Synthetic Snot may Enable Bender to Smell his Farts
You can tell it’s a quiet day when we start talking about robot snot, can’t you? Researchers at the Universities of Warwick and Leicester in the UK have apparently discovered that synthetic snot smeared on robot noses enables the electronic sniffing devices to identify a greater number of smells. And don’t expect to pay through…