robots

Monday 18 February

  • A robot that acts out your dreams (14:02) - I spent a night at The Albany Regional Sleep Disorder Center in Albany, NY. There they wired me up with a variety of sensors, recording everything from EEG to EKG to eye positioning data. We then took that data and... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 16 January

  • Dog Walk Robot (19:04) - Does anyone else find this creepy? ... | 2 Comments

Thursday 5 April


Thursday 9 February


Thursday 10 February

  • Mind-controlled robot (21:06) - Spanish engineer José del R. Millán has recently been elected by Scientific American as one of the research leaders in 2004 for his experiences that allowed a small robot to move around a model house, while the bot itself...

Monday 31 January

  • Korean scientists unveil robotic skin (17:54) - Yoon Eui-sik, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), has developed a tactile sensor that would give robots a sense of touch similar to humans. The sensor is made of a lattice of copper electrodes placed...

Wednesday 19 January

  • You, Robot (14:35) - Scientist Hans Moravec says humans will download their minds into computers one day. So he's put his money where his mouth is, and started a robotics firm to pioneer the journey from warehouse drones to Robo Sapiens. ...

Friday 14 January

  • Olson, the independent camera (13:41) - Christopher Glaister's Olson camera is an automatic digital camera that you can leave at a party and it pans and rotates discretely, taking images of its surroundings autonomously. Bristling with microphones, the camera "listens" for interesting events such as...

Tuesday 17 February

  • Robot Reelz (03:38) - Casshern looks like it will be a pretty dramatic Japanese cyborg action movie. It looks a bit cheesy, maybe a lack of a real Hollywood budget. However, for an Asian robot movie that you might actually get to see in...

Sunday 25 January

  • Robot Entertainment (22:28) - Patrik Schellhaus thinks he is a robot. What can I say, Germany produces the funkiest human robots on the planet. He also does alright with the ladies. VixenLove, on the other hand, is a robot attempting to be human. It...

Friday 16 January

  • RealDoll Meets Roomba (23:50) - Android World has announced the tentative sale of its first two Valeries. The $59,000 female android speaks English and cleans dishes and clothes among other things. However, the website states that she won't be a willing sex partner because of...

Thursday 21 August