Loading ...Check out Honda’s new Asimo robot. He’s had so many improvements that Asimo the robot can now open bottles with his new hands, push a cart, hop on one leg, run, recognize multiple conversations, serve drinks, avoid objects and more. That’s one cool robot. Check out the video.
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Attention all couch potatoes! This robot will change your life forever. You will never have to lift the TV remote again. This freaky looking little 11 inch tall robot is going to revolutionize the way you watch TV. Sort of. According to Toshiba this little guy named ApriPoko, is a voice activated remote control that [...]
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Here’s the perfect gift for all those people who are too lazy to pour their own beer. For all those couch potatoes that are just too lazy to get up and pour themselves a beer they can have this robot do it for them. After watching the video I figured I probably could have poured [...]
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And you thought the Wii was just for games. According to published reports, the U.S. military is now using a Wii remote controller to assist in operating it’s PackBot military remote. The PackBot, designed by iRobot,”Is light enough to be deployed by a single person, the rugged iRobot PackBot can lift up to 15 pounds [...]
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Creative or lazy? This guy built a robot just to run 1 ethernet cable through his air vent. Apparently he never heard of either a fish tape or wireless ethernet. Still, I guess this qualifies for pure genious. Watch the video and you decide.
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It looks like some weird winged insect camouflaged by mother nature to shield it from hungry predators. But it is really NASA’s six-wheeled Martian robot, Spirit, filthy with dust after four years of exploring the red planet. When motoring through dusty deserts more than 88 million kilometres from the nearest car wash, it is hard [...]
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Honda unveils robots that ‘talk’ to each other, work in pairs If you find it unnerving when robots interact with humans on menial tasks, Honda is raising the stakes: On Tuesday it rolled out two humanoid robots that work in pairs. The Associated Press reports that at a demonstration in Tokyo, two child-sized Asimo robots [...]
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The Gakkel Ridge, encased under the frozen Arctic Ocean, is steep and rocky, and scientists suspect its remote location hosts an array of undiscovered life. Researchers hope newly developed robots will give them their first look at the mysterious ridge located between Greenland and Siberia. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod [...]
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Their 90-day warranties expired long ago. But NASA’s six-wheeled Martian rovers still are going strong. After a bleak winter on the fourth rock from the sun, Spirit and Opportunity are rolling again. Three years ago, when the first of the two rovers bounced to a landing on Mars, scientists hoped one of them might last [...]
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