Tag: Robots
Toyota's robot army will be in the home by 2010
Toyota, no doubt still laughing at the Honda Asimo stair malfunction videos, is boosting its own robot production – and reckons it’ll have two models ready for consumers to consume by 2010.
Robot one is essentially useless – it can play the violin. That’s going to be more of an annoyance than a help around the home…
Fantasy gadgets for parents: The NANC-E Nannybot
First things first – this isn’t real. It’s a clever bit of viral marketing for upcoming Pixar robot movie WALL-E. Don’t want any of you to think we’ve actually fallen for some viral marketing, that would be extremely embarrassing.
Opinion: Why are robots still so rubbish!
So there I was on Friday, snowed under with work and wanting the weekend to arrive but take a bit longer than usual to get here so I could finish off everything I needed to do. And then it struck me, what I actually needed was some help around the house. No, I don’t mean an eastern European cleaner, or a girlfriend – the first is too expensive and the second a lot of hassle, or should that be the other way around?
And then I read on Tech Digest about the iRobot Looj: the robot that cleans your gutter. Now that’s more like it! A robot for cleaning my gutter, I WANT ONE! The fact my gutting doesn’t need cleaning and is currently free of leaves, is of no consequence…
Old Japanese people bored of robots already
The novelty of $4,300 “communication robot” Ifbot wore off after about a month of active service in a Kyoto nursing home, with elderly residents preferring the silent, unconditional love of teddy bears.
Most old people “see robots as overly-complicated and unpractical” says Ruth Campbell, a social worker in…
GlowBots – your pattern-learning robot pets
The New Scientist has a little feature on GlowBots, a clever little invention that features at Siggraph 2007.
GlowBots are tiny little flashing, mobile robots that display patterns of colour. If you like a pattern you shake the GlowBot up and down…
Ditch your drummer and replace him with a robot – that's what Jay Vance did, with Captured!
Quick, someone send this video to the other bandmates in Babyshambles, the apparently nameless ones which could live next door to us and we wouldn’t know the difference! A new musical direction for the band if ever I saw one – if musician Jay Vance can replace his drug-addled bandmates with robots, then surely a ‘bot could replace Pete Doherty? They’ve already got the vacant expressions down pat, after all…
Forget Marc Jacobs, these £830 Gundam t-shirts will definitely put you in the red
Those unfamiliar with Gundam merchandise may be shocked to learn this t-shirt will set you back £830/$1,690, but that’s fairly cheap for a piece of Gundam merch, believe it or not…
Shiny Video Review: Homer Simpson Robosapien – meet Homersapien
Homersapien very possibly gets the better of Zara when they go head to head. D’oh!…
Tech Digest's Robot World Cup: Semi-Final
No, we hadn’t forgotten about it. We were just giving the final bots in our Robot World Cup a few weeks to rest their bones (well, mechanical joints) before rejoining battle. And what a battle it is. We’re at the semi-final stage, which means the last four robots in the competition. Three of ’em are humanoid: Honda’s Asimo, WowWee’s Robosapien RS Media, and KornTech’s Rogun. The quartet is completed by iRobot’s military Packbot, which swaps legs for tank treads.
Shiny Video Review: Roboquads – Robots taking over the Earth
Roboquads are amassing… some of them have come to save us… some of them have come to destroy us… Oh, hang on, that’s Transformers. These are more Minority Report scuttly-scary, but still. Watch them in action. We’ll be sending one to find you…
