Category: Robots
In 2018, nanorobots will be swimming around your body
Want to know the future of technology? Ask 3,500 South Koreans. The government there did just that, and came back with some marvellous predictions for how we'll be interacting with technology in the future. They include the notion that by…
The world's first remote-controlled pigeon
Flap left. Flap right. Aim. Poo! These are the sorts of commands being carried out by boffins at Shandong University of Science and Technology in China. They've just completed an experiment to implant electrodes into the brain of a pigeon,…
Dexter and Monty are Anybots: Dynamically balancing walking humanoid robots
Trevor Blackwell and team have developed the Anybot, which they claim is the first dynamically balancing walking humanoid robot. Whether it's the first or not is up for debate, but it's a great concept. Dexter has two legs, stands 5'10"…
Ubiko Robot Smoke Detector
The incredibly adorable humano-kitty Ubiko robot is not only fabulously cute and available for rent, but has been upgraded to work as a roving smoke detector. When she detects smoke or ash smells, she's programmed to notify an authority…
Minibot reduces need for surgery
Instead of surgery, you can now have a Minibot investigate your insides, report about the conditions, and undertake actual repair. Sized 2cm by 1cm, the plastic covered bot is inserted into an incision and then controlled via magnetic fields….
Robosapiens In Happy Meals
Is your child getting enough robot in his diet? This potential deficiency, which may lead to problems relating to our impending overlords, can now be easily corrected with the simple purchase of a McDonald's Happy Meal containing a Robosapien…
Cockroach controls entire robot… WITH ITS MIND?
I dunno how big a brain your average cockroach has, but apparently it doesn't take much to operate Garnet Hertz's cockroach-run robot. Hertz also did a project involving strapping tiny wireless videocameras to the top of Madagascar hissing cockroaches…
Monkey controls robot arm… WITH ITS MIND!
A monkey can now feed itself via a robot arm which it controls via thought (pretty much the same way it controls all its other limbs). An invasion of comments about our cyber-monkey overlords is sure to follow. [GT]…
Robot Has Baby and Teaches Bible
From the too-bizarre-this-early-in-the-Monday-morning dept, we have the Bot and Baby Bot. Bot is the mother, containing the Baby Bot. Baby Bot emerges from Bot. Bot then teaches the Old Testament and Baby Bot teaches New Testament, with the relationship…
John Coltrane, as rendered by Japanese sax-playing robot
Dissatisfied with just making robots that can make spring rolls and reassemble themselves, the latest talented Mr Japanesebotley plays a somewhat rote, but still pretty cool rendering of John Coltrane's Giant Steps. [GT] Giant Steps solo by a robot!…