Category: Robots
Slave Leia looked on proudly as Admiral Ackbar walked down the aisle
It’s a Star Wars wedding. Not just a a cake grandma made that, from the right angle, looks a bit like a 2D Death Star, but a proper, CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY DID THAT? Star Wars wedding. Everyone put in some effort.
Here’s a small celebratory montage we’ve put together of the finest photos. The highlight is the ginger man who grew his beard out to be Chewbacca, plus the grey-haired man who used his natural assets to do a superb Ben Kenobi. The X-Wings let the side down a bit, mind. What’s with the socks?
The entire set is, incredibly, viewable by the general public over on Flickr. We wanted to poke fun, but… it’s sensational…
The "Heart Robot" that just wants to be needed
It looks like a Teletubby that’s had all its skin burned off in an industrial accident, but don’t let that put you off – the Heart Robot is very friendly on the inside.
Designed by The University of the West of England’s David McGoran, the robot likes a good cuddle. Its heart starts pounding when it’s particularly excited, plus its eyes flutter when you touch it – and its puny limbs tense themselves for a smack round the head or a shove down the stairs when it hears raised voices…
Canadian "Robot Doctor" is little more than a glorified webcam on wheels
EXPOSED! Some Canadian doctor who works out of Nova Scotia, has, so he says, been treating patients via a sensational “Robot Doctor” that helps him listen to his patients.
So what does this “Robot Doctor” actually do? It allows Dr Ivar Mendez to indulge in “real time” video communication with patients! Just like a £4.99 webcam. It also allows “real time” voice communication with patients! Just like a telephone. Or a Skype account. It’s basically a PC case mod…
Computer WINS BIG in poker tournament
Poker-playing computer Polaris kicked the bottoms of several top poker players last week, raking in a profit of some $150,000 for its developers at the University of Alberta.
The human players, with frankly stupid names like Nick “stoxtrader” Grudzien, Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko and IJay “doughnutz” Palansky, won two games, drew one and lost three to Polaris, which has…
Vstone Blackox robot available for pre-order (with video goodness)
Why by some wussy servile beer-serving robot when you can buy a black, evil menace who will dominate your living room? The Vstone Blackox stands at 440m, weighs in at 2.5kg, with 20 moveable axis points and some pretty cool moves.
Giant polystyrene robot and lots of little friends by Michael Salter
An associate professor of digital arts at the University of Oregon has created a 22-foot tall giant polystyrene robot from old packing material.
Michael Salter spent months cutting up the bits and pieces for the Styrobot…
Mr Asahi beer robot – best robot ever!
Yes, yes and thrice yes. Surely the Mr Asahi robot barman is exactly what every busy city bar has been waiting for…
The Lite Machines "Voyeur coaxial-rotor VTOL UAV" (US Navy spy-copter)
One of modern life’s great pleasures is cruising YouTube for odd videos of experimental technology. A lunatic on a rocket bike. An inventor with a death-wish positioning his head a few inches from a spinning rotor. A man risking carbon monoxide poisoning and all kinds of exotic death by using jet engines he bought off the Russian eBay in his garage.
And today, this – a twin-propeller, hand-launched spy helicopter drone thing you carry around with you in a tube until it requires deployment in a spying situation. Then you set it free like a dove of peace.
Maker Lite Machines was commissioned to come up with this spying “solution” by the US Navy…
The "Heart Robot" that just wants to be cuddled
It looks like a Teletubby that’s had all its skin burned off in an industrial accident, but don’t let that put you off – the Heart Robot is very friendly on the inside.
Designed by The University of the West of England’s David McGoran, the robot likes a good cuddle. Its heart starts pounding when it’s particularly excited, plus its eyes flutter when you touch it – and its puny limbs tense themselves for a smack round the head or a shove down the stairs when it hears raised voices…
Scientists working on 1.5-metre long climbing robotic snake
Forget snakes on a plane, for soon there could be snakes in your drains – robotic snakes, that is, which can climb vertical pipes, cleaning them or looking for leaks.
Norwegian scientists are working on a one-and-a-half metre long aluminium-clad robot is constructed with multiple joints, plastic wheels, and a camera, and is programmed with algorithms that tell it how to navigate pipework, and what tasks to carry out while in there…
