Robots
Concepts
Yotaro Robot Secretly Terrifies High Schoolers Everywhere
Well, folks, leave it to the Japanese to make a more advanced and yet much more terrifying version of every high school freshman’s secret dread, Baby Think It Over. Today we’re talking about Yotaro, possibly the cre...
Computers
RUTH: The Robot With the Magic Touch
Ford believes it has found a way to replicate human touch in a lab setting. While before, getting the “human perspective” on a vehicle’s interior depended on–you guessed it!–talking to an actual hu...
Household
Neato Robotics’ XV11 Surpasses Roomba Easily
All right, everybody, got a new and interesting gadget for you today, so brace yourselves–the logical successor to the Roomba has reared its suctiony head, and it’s called the XV11 from Neato Robotics. Okay, with a ...
Robots
Kororo Android–Tokyo Is The Uncanny Valley
There are times when I look at the Japanese with a look of vague unease and alarm, because they’re doing things out there that push the boundaries of science and Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. And today, they prove the...
Gaming
TOPIO: The Super-Buff Ping Pong Robot
Well, that’s it, folks. Happy Thanksgiving. We’re all doomed. The machines have risen. And they want…to beat us stupid in ping pong. In case you’re wondering, this isn’t from Japan. This was dev...
RFID
Plexidor Pet Door–Maybe Just A Little Too Far
Maybe, just maybe, we spoil our pets a bit too much. Oh, sure, we don’t think twice about the occasional chew bone or some such, but some dogs today eat better than some people do. Plus there’s the add-ons–cl...
Concepts
Cyberdyne Japan Releases Statement On Future of Robotics
It might shock you to know there’s a Cyberdyne corporation in Japan. But what only might shock you is to discover that they’re into robotics…but the helpful kind. For instance, they’re working on a robo...
Autos
RC Driver Tissue Box Drives Tissues To You
Now this is actually a really fun idea–you know how, when you were a kid, you probably used to imagine various household objects as race cars? Well, now you can do it for real with the RC Driver Tissue Box. This isn̵...
Gaming
Casmobot Lawnmower Controlled With A Wiimote (video)
It’s always pretty interesting to see other things besides the Wii get controlled via Wiimote. Some have hooked it to Airsoft guns or what have you, but today I’ve dug up a little something interesting. Thanks to t...
Military
Boston Dynamics New Robot Walks Like An Actual Person
So originally I was going to write about India’s newfound fascination with the road spike, but then I thought better of it and discovered that Boston Dynamics was actually well on its way to making Terminators. Aren’...
Household
The Royal College Of Art Develops The Breakfast Machine
If you’ve seen a Wallace and Gromit cartoon lately, chances are you’re familiar with at least something vaguely like what I’m about to point out today–the Breakfast Machine. Breakfast Machines aren’...
Robots
Japanese Make A Robot That Acts Like It’s Dying Of H1N1
Admittedly, the Amio is a pretty awesome robot, but it takes the Japanese to make something truly creepy with their robot and blow the Amio clean out of the water. The Japanese, you see, built a fully functional robot…tha...
