Tag: robot
Like Japanese food? Get the Motoman industrial robot to cook it for you
Visitors to the International Next-Generation Robot Fair in Osaka who get a bit peckish can head over to the stand where the Motoman SDA10 robot has demonstrated its culinary abilities.
This two-armed robot can do a range of things, and cooking okonomiyaki is just one thing on its impressive resumé. It’s even more impressive because it can take orders from customers using speech recognition technology and then create the dish using standard kitchen utensils. It even flips the pancake-like dish…
Robot Plant Pot seeks out the brighter side of life
This is a “Solar seeking botanical augmentation”, to quote the Play Coalition, who are building the thing. It’s basically a plantpot on legs which has a light sensor and moves around your room in order to find the best, brightest spot…
Ride this Robo-Triceratops until you get (dino)sore.
Jurassic Park was a good idea. Not the ‘meddling with genetics’, ‘playing God’, and ‘being eaten alive bit’ – but the bit where the Dinosaurs come back to Earth to be used for our amusement. That is a really really good idea.
Which is why i really like this fantastic toy by Hasbro.
Called ‘Kota the Triceratops Dinosaur’ this terrible lizard is part of the Playskool range aimed at kiddies up to 3-4 years old. Now, up until seeing this, I thought Playskool made simple toys like Sticklebricks and bath-time toys like that turtle with the worried look upon it’s face.. Well, I guess simple toys just aren’t good enough for ‘Playskool’ers anymore, because Kota the Triceratops is anything but simple.
This is a robotic life-sized baby dinosaur. It walks, it squawks, it carries you around on it’s back. Talk to Kota and the thing responds by roaring, stomping it’s feet, or wiggling it’s tail. It has independent head, eye, mouth and horn movements. In fact, this animatronic dino wouldn’t have looked out of place on the set of Jurassic Park. Okay, it would. It really would, but you get the idea. This is one highly advanced toddler toy.
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…
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.
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…
Sega unveils the AMP musical robot
Oh, for the good old days – when Sega ruled the console world with a black box and a blue hedgehog. These days, it seems to think robots are the future – and right now, the AMP robot…
SEGA Toys EMA – a living, dancing, kissing robot to fill that empty void
Finally, a piece of SEGA hardware we can love almost as much as we loved Dreamcast – and this one is capable of loving us back.
It, or indeed, “she,” is called EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization. “Eternal” presumably means she’s got fantastic battery life, “Maiden” is because she’s got realistically proportioned breasts she’s programmed to not mind you touching, and “Actualization” because, well, just look at the beauty!
Isn’t she lovely? She apparently has a “kiss mode” that makes her willing and actually accepting…
"Robot receptionist" dream finally made real thanks to Chinese tin-man monster
That absolutely hideous MONSTROSITY to the left there has been given the name Siasun and set to work as a receptionist in the Chinese city of Shenyang.
It/she works at the fantastically Communist-sounding “administrative examination and approval service center” in Shenyang, where it/she nods, waves and even, so it is alleged but we would have to see it to believe it, talks to businessmen…
Partner-type Personal Robot: would you leave your child with a robot?
PaPeRo is not only quite a bizarre name for a robot, but a potentially disturbing concept. The NEC-developed “Partner-type Personal Robot” is being tested in childcare.
It’s able to express itself, can recognise 650 phrases and speak over 3,000, recognise faces, and remember interests and preferences…
