Tag: robot
Is Sony creating a new AIBO compatible with the PS3?
Many have prophesised the return of the mighty Aibo – but few have dared to imagine the full potential which Sony maketh. Y’know, the usual exploding batteries, huge expense, their usual deal.
The lovely Kotakuite, Brian Ashcraft, published an interview with Masaya Matsuura, not only a game designer, but also huge Sonypal. According to Matsuura, consumers may be seeing a slightly AIBO-esque robot…
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.
SK Technology has basically been wasting its time and money on making pointless things like phone-controlled vacuum cleaners
SK Technology, who you haven’t heard of because they make things like this, has neared completion of its latest project – a robotic vacuum cleaner controlled by mobile phone.
The system transmits video to a phone, allowing amazingly lazy people to sit on the sofa eating doughnuts while a robot picks up the…
Shiny Video Review: Gupi Remote Control Intelligent Guinea Pig
Zara and Carly investigate the snuggly, squeaky and, erm, sneezy world of the finest remote control guinea pig available to humanity…
Hello, Hello Kitty Robo
If no one else understands you, Hello Kitty Robo might be able to help. It has a microphone for listening to your crazed whispers, plus, being a dependable robot, it won’t then post all your secrets to the internet.
Kitty has stereo cameras for face recognition, so hopefully it can see when you’re crying and rotate one of its moving arms to attempt something approaching a reassuring hug…
Sanyo and Tomy's i-SOBOT is the smallest robot in the world
And that’s official, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Although I daresay it’ll soon be swept out of the record books by a host of teeny-tiny nanorobots. Anyway, i-SOBOT stands just 165mm high, yet Sanyo and Tomy have squeezed some nifty robo-tech inside.
Woman gets carried away on robot
It’s the middle of July, which mean Grandma will be phoning up soon to ask what we want for Christmas. ONE OF THESE!
It’s a personal robot walking machine, that will make those tiresome trips from the PC to the toilet and back to the PC again much easier…
Suck at Guitar Hero? Fool your friends with the Guitar Heronoid robot
Guitar Hero is without a doubt one of the most enjoyable games available, although let’s be honest with each other…we’re not very good at it, are we? I’ve just about nailed Iron Man by Black Sabbath, on the first version, but John the Fisherman by Primus, on Guitar Hero II? Bah! I’m lucky if I can match even two of the notes.
That’s when you need to call on your good mate Rafael Mizrahi, who has just created a robot called the Guitar Heronoid. Like most men I know, it’s divided into two parts – the brain, which detects and analyses the PS2 video signals and generates play-commands such as when to press the buttons, when to strum etc, and the body, which reads the play-commands and controls the twiddling fingers…
Robots walking faster and learning from their mistakes – but still rubbish
The disappointingly slow development of decent robots continues disappointingly slowly, with RunBot – the latest little robot that's barely able able to walk on two feet and learn from its mistakes. It takes the thing four attempts to learn how to walk up a really small hill. And it appears to be held up with wires.
Basically, robots are rubbish.
LEGO Mindstorms robotic Rubik Cube solver
A particularly clever student called Daniele Benedettelli has built a LEGO robot capable of solving a Rubik Cube.
The mammoth task that took us six months during the spring and summer of 1983 is now fully automated…
