Posts Tagged ‘robot’
Business
Will Punxsutawney Phil Be Next To Lose His Job To A Machine?
Well, folks, it’s almost Groundhog Day again, and you know what that means. No, the post office doesn’t get yet another screwball holiday off to screw up your Netflix queue–it means that once again, Punxsutaw...
Robots
The Da Vinci Robot Si HD Is A Surgery Machine…Literally.
In Calgary, robots do surgery. That’s the surprise of the day from the folks up in Canada as Rockyview General Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to lay hands on a da Vinci Robot Si HD. Small wonder they’re fi...
Household
ROXXXY, The First Ever Robot Girlfriend
Society as we know it is now officially doomed. Please find your exits located to the left and right of the auditorium and drive safely. You might wonder what inspired my greatest hyperbole to date…well, when I read abou...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
Robots
The Amio Robot–Our First Robot Butler?
The robot revolution continues on unabated with the emergence of the Amio robot, a walking, bipedal robot that actually approaches human-looking. It stands about five feet tall, weighs about ninety pounds and has a top walking ...
Battery
Harvard Developing Robot Bee Colony
Remember when I was freaking out over the concept of cyborg combat wasps? Well, I’ve got something even more frightening here–apparently, the crew out at Harvard are neck deep in developing an entire colony of robot...
Household
The Snackbot: King of All Office Supplies
This may well be the king of all office supplies. No, it’s not one of those sweet executive ball-clacker deals (even though they are sweet). Nor is it a dartboard or a Blackberry or anything like that. No, the unquesti...