Category: Robots
HAVE NO FEAR, the autonomous German robot fire bug will protect you within its shell
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It’s armoured. It’s fireproof. It has GPS capabilities so it can be trusted to be left on its own. It is the OLE fire-fighting robot machine!
Staff at the German University of Magdeburg-Stendal created the thing, covering it with fire-resistant ceramic fibre to keep its internals cool…
Shiny Video Review: Hyde Park Robot Wars!
Last week Gary and I toured London’s Soho sex shops, this week we regressed to our ten-year-old selves and battled in the famous Hyde Park. I present you with…
ROBOT WARS!
Featuring Pleo the dinosaur, available from IWOOT for £249, the Meccano Spykee Micro also from IWOOT for £19.99, and the iRobot Roomba which is available for around £135.
So, who won in this bloody battle? I’ll tell you what, it certainly wasn’t our pride, which was wounded and is lying in a pool of blood somewhere in a central London park….
New download will allow your Pleo to sit and sing apparently. Rick Astley choons unconfirmed.
As soon as I heard the Pleo dinosaur had an SD card and USB slots in its belly, the potential for after-purchase upgrades immediately sprung to mind.
The latest download, LifeOS 1.1 includes many prime examples of the possible innovations that could be brought to life through these slots, with your little green dino being able to sit for the very first time, as well as change emotions…
YouTube Hits: Big Dog Beta
Ever since I saw this video on Gizmodo last week, I’ve become strangely obsessed with watching it several times a day and just giggling maniacally to myself here in the office….
Life-sized C-3PO and R2-D2 replicas for the rich, obsessed, lonely (or all three)
The R2-D2 projector is so yesterday – the latest geek must-haves are the life-sized C-3PO and R2-D2 replicas from Sideshow Collectibles…
ApriPoko – Toshiba's walking remote control robot
With HD DVD out of the way, Toshiba’s research team can spend time and energy on more worthwhile projects – like robots…
Husqvarna Automower Solar Hybrid trims your lawn, protects the environment, lulls humanity into false sense of security
Thank god I don’t have a lawn. I already struggle to keep up with housework, general home maintenance, paying the stair cleaners, personal hygiene, etc. If there was ‘grass’ to be tended to on my days off, it might just push me over the edge. Unless I had a Husqvarna Automower that is.
Better put your clothes on! British Transport Police owns a $60,000 flying video-enabled robot!
Good to see our taxes are going towards worthy things, like supplying the British Transport Police with one of these $60,000 r/c flying robots.
Apparently the theft of metal on our British railways is a huge problem, so the Transport Police use these expensive Microdrones to target the thieves – with the bots’ squirting water at the perps. It’s…
Remember Tachikoma robots from Ghost In The Shell? Here they are, USB cable and all!
Bandai, creator of Tamagotchis and all manner of Japanese fun, has cranked out an amazing Artificial Intelligence-holding robot from the Ghost In The Shell series, Tachikoma.
Pluggable to your PC via USB, the metal robot contains various sensors, lights and speakers, and can even act like a Nabaztag rabbit, alerting you when you receive a new email. It allows you to play mini…
Opinion: Why we should all be scared of real robot wars!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… One of the UK’s leading scientists reckons terrorists could soon be using robots to attack their targets – so should we all be worried and run for cover?
Well, I’ve already battened down my hatches, took the tin hat out of storage and stocked up on tins of corned beef and baked beans. Annoyingly, I don’t even like corned beef, but I’m told it lasts.
Anyhow, robots are without doubt one of the biggest technological advances and one of the biggest techno-tests we face in the future. If they can be used for good, it stands to reason they can be used for evil. Anyone who’s seen Steven Spielberg flick Artificial Intelligence: AI starring Jude Law will know how terrifying a world with ultra-realistic human-like robots could be…
