Robots

Control a Robot With Your DS

If making Mario jump, Kirby suck, and Phoenix OBJECT! is starting to bore you, check out this RoboDS project. It’s an “open” robot platform for the Nintendo DS, which comes with a little robot kit, connectors, and a cart to connect it to your DS for programming. Once you have the whole thing purchased ($99…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Dean Kamen’s Cyborg Arm: It’s Real and It’s Spectacular

Dean Kamen (the Segway and medical/robot guy)’s new robot arm has been lighting up the internet since last week. There were loads of questions (is it really an arm? Why did he make it? Was the audience actually crying?) but not very many answers. Here are some new details on courtesy of a guy who…

Tech News Jason Chen

ASTRO Becomes First Robotic Satellite Repair Man

Now that they’re poised to take over the planet, robots are turning to outer space thanks to the folks at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects) who have just launched their first satellite repair bots into space. Dubbed ASTRO, the repair bots are designed to patch up other satellites without any human guidance, instead they rely…

Space & Spaceflight Louis Ramirez

Automated Waffle Machine: An Important Part of a Pee-Wee Breakfast

Maybe it’s the Rube Goldberg fan in me, but I always prefer complicated devices to simple solutions—at least with my embedded flash videos. Here is a fully mostly automated waffle machine. It’s powered by a 4 liter valve pressure system and the occasional low-powered nudge. If your co-worker/cohabitants don’t know what a dork you are…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Dean Kamen Cyborg Arm

This story has been lighting up the Internet like, hotcakes or whatever, but it’s still difficult to find any solid information on the device. Made by Dean Kamen of Segway fame, this artificial arm is capable of delicate tasks such as picking scratching one’s nose or grabbing a pen. What most are assuming is that…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

VIPeR Battlefield Robot: Maverick Hunter

No, we are not teasing you with the headline. Robots officially kill people. Developed by Elbit Systems Ltd for Israel’s army to avoid hand-to-hand combat, the VIPeR is about the size of a small television and easily rolls up stairs and down into trenches (ok, with that trenches part we kinda went freestyle, but the…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

South Korea Starts Campaign for Robot Rights

It may sound like something from a sci-fi flick, but South Korea is writing up a code of ethics to protect robots from being abused by humans and vice versa. Tops on their list is the issue of safety, especially now that more people are interacting with robots. Roboticists in Europe are also lobbying their…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Nike Air Trainers: Marketing Machine of the Transformers Movie Takes its First Steps

Hot on the heels (did you see what I just did there?) of the Optimus Prime helmet comes a pair of trainers from Nike. The colorway of silver*, red patent, blue and yellow just shrieks Optimus, dahlinks, and will transform (oh, look, I’ve done it again) the wearer into a bona-fide beetle-crushing superhero. The movie…

Tech News Ad Dugdale

Robosapien Coming to the Big Screen

The Robosapien is going to be hitting the big screen. The robot will be starring in its own movie and it will be made with the help of Avi Arad and his production company. Arad has put work into Spiderman movies, the Hulk, X-Men 3 and the nostalgic X-Men animated series from the 1990s. Those…

Movies Travis Hudson

Giraffe Robot Lets Your Boss Remotely Keep Tabs on the Office

Think you got it easy cause your boss ain’t around? You better think twice. Designed by HeadThere, the Giraffe is a remote controlled mobile videoconferencing robot. It can be operated via the Internet by anyone who wants to see, talk, or interact with people far-away. The robot stands 5’8″ tall and uses a 14-inch LCD…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Blogging Robot to Kill, Take Jobs of Human Giz Writers

Well, I’ve had a good run, but it seems that my days as a blogger are numbered. Like the manufacturers that came before me and the masseuses that will come after, my work will soon be done by a robot. After all, robots don’t get distracted by YouTube/porn, report old products as new, or hold…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Monty Robot, Plays Ball

We just fawned over Anybots’ dynamically balancing robot (Dexter) earlier this week, and (his brother?) already has a new trick. It might not look like much, but according to Dexter’s developers: Throwing a ball to someone is difficult, but even more difficult is using visual information of a ball in flight to put your hand…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Japan’s Makes Maid Robot That Surprisingly Looks like Gundam, Not a Sexy Lady

If you imagined Japan‘s roboticists making a robot that pours tea and washes dishes, you’d imagine some kind of sexy maid with a short skirt and gigantic knockers. Well, you’d be wrong. The University of Tokyo went in the complete opposite direction and made a robot that looks like a Gundam. Pretty interesting choice, seeing…

Tech News Jason Chen

Solar Powered George Bush Robot Chariot to Save the Planet?

A solar-powered chariot that walks, rollerblades and looks like George Bush? Its inventor says it will "save the world from itself." Why George Bush’s head on such an efficient, sustainable, responsible and forward-looking vehicle? Says the robot vehicle’s inventor, Stanford professor of neurology Bob Schneeveis, "He’s doing something that he’s qualified to do, and he’s…

Gadgets Charlie White

Robot Sex: It’s Here

Robot libido Uploaded by sabo-tage We may be juvenile, but we found this video hilarious. Thanks JC!

Tech News Jason Chen

Anybot’s Humanoids Designed to Bully Other Bots and Not Trip

Ok, so they may not look like the Terminator, but still, there’s something remotely disturbing about watching these robots "learn" to walk and shove. Developed by Anybots, the humanoids are being designed to help with industrial and household tasks and they’re made in such a way that they won’t tip over and fall flat on…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Mars and Beyond (1957)

Walt Disney opens the Disneyland TV program Mars and Beyond by asking, “Will we find planets with only a low form of vegetable life or will there be mechanical robots controlled by super intelligent beings?” “Even though scientists think Martian conditions are severe, they believe that if man journeyed to Mars he could survive here…

Tech News Matt Novak

Chinese Scientists Learn to Control Pigeons

Who needs robots when you can control actual animals? Robots, they’re pretty conspicuous, but no one ever suspects the pigeon of foul play. Chinese scientists claim to have figured out a way to control the flight of pigeons remotely, telling them where to go via micro electrodes implanted in their brains. The scientists claim they…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Crazy Industrial Robot on eBay Lets Gallagher Your Own Brain

The star of such clips as Wii murder robot and Robotic Arm Ride 2: The Brain Smearer is up for sale on eBay. For a Buy it Now price of $24,969, you too can strap yourself to the arm and smash your head into the concrete like a too-ripe melon. Of course, the seller recommends…

Tech News Jason Chen

Minibot Performs Surgery From the Inside Out

Boy, this sounds pleasant. Researchers in Japan have developed a Minibot that enters your body via an incision. It’s then controlled from the outside while it performs surgery on you. It has forceps to take tissue samples, can deliver medicine, and take pictures. Most previous mini robots designed for your insides could only take pictures;…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Control a Robot With Your DS

Dean Kamen’s Cyborg Arm: It’s Real and It’s Spectacular

ASTRO Becomes First Robotic Satellite Repair Man

Automated Waffle Machine: An Important Part of a Pee-Wee Breakfast

Dean Kamen Cyborg Arm

VIPeR Battlefield Robot: Maverick Hunter

South Korea Starts Campaign for Robot Rights

Nike Air Trainers: Marketing Machine of the Transformers Movie Takes its First Steps

Robosapien Coming to the Big Screen

Giraffe Robot Lets Your Boss Remotely Keep Tabs on the Office

Blogging Robot to Kill, Take Jobs of Human Giz Writers

Monty Robot, Plays Ball

Japan’s Makes Maid Robot That Surprisingly Looks like Gundam, Not a Sexy Lady

Solar Powered George Bush Robot Chariot to Save the Planet?

Robot Sex: It’s Here

Anybot’s Humanoids Designed to Bully Other Bots and Not Trip

Mars and Beyond (1957)

Chinese Scientists Learn to Control Pigeons

Crazy Industrial Robot on eBay Lets Gallagher Your Own Brain

Minibot Performs Surgery From the Inside Out

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

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