The easiest way to make a robot as dexterous and capable as a human being is to simply let a human control it. That’s…
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A robotics company recently made one of its telepresence units accessible over the Internet for a public demonstration.…
As you may already know, this past week, Gizmodo's Home of the Future has been giving everyone a sneak peek at our…
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Email, the internet, and a host of other advancements in office technology have finally made the dream of working from…
A wise man once said, "In order for us to understand the rat, we must become the rat." Now, it's quite possible that…
Anyone who plays video games knows that game bots, artificially intelligent virtual gamers, can be spotted a mile away…
It's been the new millennium for over a decade now and not only do we not have personal jetpacks, but there's also a…
Cutting-edge devices that allow you to be ‘telepresent' are slowly starting to make an appearance in our lives, but a…
Video conferencing can be a cold and impersonal way to conduct business, but researchers at Osaka University in Japan…
Meet Osaka University's remote handshaking telepresence device. Combine it with the Telenoid R1 sperm monster and the…
Projection people aren't an entirely new phenomenon, but this Mask-bot — a new yammering robo-visage from German and…
We've seen some fairly convincing power loader facsimiles before, but this refurbished Ditch Witch by Raytheon-Sarcos —…
Ever wished your phone was a little more... intimate? Fabian Hemmert, a design researcher at the Berlin University of…
Researchers at Japan's Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications are developing a device that…
This is TEROOS, a shoulder-mounted telepresence robot that allows you to hang out with your friends while you're at…
Remember the Telenoid R1 telepresence robot we featured several months back? Now researchers from Osaka University…
South Korean inventor Mok Young Bak took his apparent obsessive compulsive disorder—an intangible thing—and put it into …
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