Category: Robots
Lovable Ubiko robot for rent
For about £250 per hour you can rent a Ubiko robot to sub for the standard booth babe (and what you lose in babe you make up in not alienating half your potential market base). The -ko is feminine…
R100 Personal Robot is so darn cute
Okay. Usually whatever I have to say is funnier than whatever they have to say, especially if what they're saying is serious. But I can't do better than to quote directly from the Personal Robot R100 site: A prototype…
Underwater Robots, now with extra giant squid
Today the fellas at New Launches dug out not one, not two, but three underwater robots based on actual sea creatures. The squid robot (video) and plane (video) (which is not strictly a fish but does somewhat resemble an…
Shadow Robot Company robot hand
Originally touted as a solution for the disabled, it's a little wearying to see the Shadow Robot Hand – a robot hand so dextrous it can pick up small coins or, as shown here, hold a tomato – being…
Robot Guinea Pig with animatronic carrot
You turn the key in the lock and step into your darkened flat, and suddenly, a bright-eyed ball of fluff charges you! It's Gupi, the robotic guinea pig, expressing love the only way he knows how (aside from sharing…
Mahru 2: Humanoid Robot From Samsung
The interesting thing about the Mahru 2 Humanoid Robot From Samsung is not so much the body, although it is humanoid and has four fingers and a thumb. It's also not that it has a built-in camera where it…
Robot vehicle goes up stairs, over bridge of freaks
The fellas at Boing Boing are wondering if anybody knows what this robot vehicle sighted in Japan is exactly. Apparently it can climb curbs and stairs, and navigate crowds, so well that the occupant seemed relatively blasé about his…
Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature
Sporting a very elaborate web site with all kinds of games which I only investigated as part of my solemn duty, I report back that the Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature is a remote-controlled arthopod that you can actually…
HAL 5 Robotic Suit takes you to the mountaintop
It's not the oversized Mechwarrior battle gear we think of when we think robot exoskeleton, but then, it's intended for day-to-day use. The HAL 5 Robotic Suit, by Tsukuba University engineering professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, is a vaguely Tron-looking outfit…
AIST's New Robotic Hand implies world of techno-Simpsons to come
Our new robot overlords will likely have three fingers, not four, if the new AIST robotic hand for blue-collar robots is any indication. Robot hands in the past have either been overly pretty, fragile or specialized, whereas these may…