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- 19 Mar 2008
- 08:54 am
Meet Wall-E
On June 27, 2008 the new Pixar movie Wall-E will be released. The movie is about a robot that lived alone for 700 years. But one day all of that changes. Pixar did a great job by making Wall-E a character that is very curious and not so smart. Besides the trailer I also added a short Wall-E animation.
- 2 comments |
- 1424 clicks |
- Category: Animations, Movies, Robots
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- 09 Feb 2008
- 11:19 am
Robot Fills Up Your Fuel Tank
A trip to the gas station of the future may no longer require the driver to leave the car. TankPitstop will do it all for you. Watch the video for a demo. Anyway, in the future we probably don’t need petrol. Instead we simply swap batteries.
- 5 comments |
- 968 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 11 Dec 2007
- 02:23 pm
Robot Plays The Violin
Toyota shows off a violin playing robot and a two-wheeled human transporter - the latest products of its robots program that seeks to develop a practical human assistance robot by the early part of the 2010s.
- 1184 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 14 Nov 2007
- 08:19 am
Hod Lipson - Self Aware Robots
Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his unusual robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this demo is an inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that learn and evolve.
- 1321 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 16 Oct 2007
- 07:35 am
One Robot In Every South Korean Home
In South Korea they have made it a goal to place one robot in every home by the year 2020. This CNN report shows that robots are getting more popular and are taking over certain tasks already. Like the kindergarten robot that plays games with the kids, service robots that clean up the office or military robots that take part in combat.
- 1990 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 04 Oct 2007
- 07:17 am
Robot With Step-On Interface
To make it easy for people with disabilities and the elderly to operate an in-home robot, professor Matsumaru of the Shizuoka University came up with a new kind of interface: the step-on interface. The step-on interface (SOI) function uses a projector to display the operation screen on the surface of the floor, and the user steps on the buttons to display the operation instructions.
- 5 comments |
- 1238 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 22 Sep 2007
- 09:46 am
WD-2 Robot Can Look Like You
Robots can look like an Asian woman or like a homeless person. But the WD-2 robot can look like you. It can transform the texture of its face by adjusting 17 facial points (first video). After this your face can be projected on it (second video). Result: your scary robotic equivalent.
- 2 comments |
- 1712 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 30 Aug 2007
- 09:23 am
Robots With Muscles
These Festo robots have muscles. Artificial muscles. But they are starting to look more and more like human muscles. And the precision with which they do their tasks increases with that.
- 2 comments |
- 1787 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 28 Jun 2007
- 07:15 pm
Blubber Bots Just Want To Be Your Friend
Los Angeles based artist Jed Berk came up with the Blubber Bot: light-seeking helium-filled balloons that graze the landscape in search of light and cellphone signals. You can interact with a Blubber Bot by making a call and waving your phone near it. In response, it will go into a flocking dance or sing you a special tune. Watch the video for a demo and more info.
- 1986 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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- 25 Jun 2007
- 09:46 am
Asahi Robocco - Beer Pouring Robot
The Asahi Robocco beer pouring robot is not new. In fact, I wrote about the robot already last year. But now you get the chance to see it in action. One beer please! Watch the video.
- 3 comments |
- 1859 clicks |
- Category: Robots
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