Robots
Robots
Boxing Robots Make “Real Steel”…Real
Watching Hugh Jackman pound robot heads into submission last month didn’t quite fill our mechanized fighting needs. These Bionic Bopper Cars from Hammacher will surely fill the void, though. Remember bumper cars? Add a ...
Robots
All New ASIMO Humanoid Robot Revealed (video)
Remember Honda’s ASIMO that could walk upright and traverse a set of stairs? Today, they unveiled an all new version that can run at an uncanny speed both forwards backwards. It also has the ability to jump on one foot ...
iPhone
Sphero Robotic Ball is Controlled by your iPhone (video)
Cat videos are some of the most popular on the net. So its only logical to develop a product that further facilitates what is inevitably a complete waste of time and bandwidth. That product is the Sphero. The Sphero is a robo...
Apple
8 Top Tech Videos and Gadgets for the Week August 22nd (list) (video)
It’s been an interesting week in the tech world! To sum up everything for you, we’ve compiled some of the coolest tech videos and products for the week so that you don’t have to scour the Internet looking for them. Enjoy! 4. CA...
Robots
15 Year Old Girl Receives an Affordable Bionic Hand (video)
Every day we wake up, wash our hands, brush our teeth, fix something to eat and drive to work. We take all of these simple tasks for granted. But not one teenager in London. Chloe Holmes, now 15 years of age, contracted Chic...
Household
iChef Oven Is Smarter Than A Microwave
Automatic oven meets robot chef with a memorized cookbook, together they form the iChef. Gorenje, an European appliance maker, ships their oven model together with a computer brain that’s capable of fully automizing nearl...
Robots
Puny Telepresence MIDBot Will Get Eaten Alive By Future Robots
Brando’s MIDbot takes your laptop for a stroll around the house when you’re away, patrolling ominously and rather slowly, but what do you want – this ain’t 2030. Billed as an ultra low cost ‘telepresence robot’, it’s not really...
Robots
Never Buy This For Your Kid. Never. (video)
Cost of making your kid impervious to bullies? $21,600. Possible cost to society resulting from outfitting a young boy with a Japanese built 400lb hydraulic mech-suit? Does not compute. Children are not the mellowest of creatur...
Robots
The PR2 Robot Now Does Laundry (video)
Last time we saw the PR2 robot, it was fetching beer and playing pool. But while its latest act is a little less fun, it’s more practical — folding socks. After Willow Garage sponsored a competition for the robot to...
Robots
Phasma Six-Legged Robot Is Both Cool & Terrifying (video)
The Phasma hexapedal running robot is something that I do no want to see scampering down my hallway at night. That being said, it’s an engineering marvel. Built by Takram Design Engineering, it uses its springy six legs t...
Robots
This Custom Lego Wall-E Robot Transforms (video)
Pretty much everybody loved Wall-E, the cute waste disposal robot, when he first appeared in his eponymous movie a couple years. Which is why I find this custom Wall-E robot so charming, because it’s so similar to the cha...
Robots
Skynet Is Almost Here, Army Funding Autonomous Robo Helicopter
Should we be a little scared that this helicopter can take off, fly around, avoid obstacles and return home all without a preprogrammed flight path? Is Skynet upon us? Currently the Unmanned Little Bird, as it’s known, i...
