Bionic Baby Seals Keep Old People From Feeling Lonely
Want to know what the Japanese government has been doing with 12 million dollars for the past two years? Developing Silver Technology, that is, robots for lonely old people. The intuitive baby harp seal, which I encountered at the RoboBusiness 2007 conference in Boston, is equipped with internal motion sensors and responds to petting, scratching…
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…
Evergreen Flash-to-USB Stick Will Take Cards
This Evergreen USB adaptor is for people who like to play with slots – of the flash memory kind. It’s a USB memory stick with a slot for memory cards, so it’s more like an adaptor, really. They have all sorts of models, ones which accept anything from Compact Flash, Secure Digital, micro SD, MMC…
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…
Quick News: Konami Adding Game Music to iTunes and More
Bloomberg is estimating that Sony’s Playstation division will post a $2 billion loss. Thanks mostly to that juggernaut of cost, the PS3. http://kotaku.com/gaming/hms-playstation/playstation-biz-may-post-2-billion-loss-260674.php Konami is tossing up over 25 years worth of video game soundtracks on iTunes and Rhapsody. Now you’ll be able to go over your Dance Dance Revolution steps in your head while…