Tag: Robots
R2D2 mobile media robot – more video footage
Look at you, being all blase. You’ve seen it all before, haven’t you? Modern cynic. Try taking a look at this. He may be familiar from CES, but we got new footage of the R2D2 mobile media centre at London’s Toy Fair yesterday, and we know you haven’t seen it before.
Shiny video preview: Spidersapien
You lucky, lucky people. First we bring you news of the Homersapien and Spidersapien, Robosapien-alike film tie-in toys. And if that alone were not enough, we now give you video footage of the Spidersapien in action. There’s no need to thank us.
Wowee! It's Spidersapien and Homersapien!
Coinciding with the release of the new Spiderman movie, the Wowee Spidersapien makes Spidey-type noises, makes web-slinging gestures, and swings from curtain to curtain to try to save Dancing Princesses Barnie. (I meant Barbie… Then again, who am I…
Driverless Electric Bus you hail with your mobile
Exhibiting at the London Science Museum right now is a driverless hybrid bus that you hail with your mobile. It seats up to 24 people and follows its route based on magnets embedded in the pathway. It uses considerably…
Instant Bonsai – just remove genes
Scientists in Japan, working with colleagues in Michigan, have figured out a way to genetically suppress growth in plants, resulting in miniature versions. If the growth hormone gibberellin, controlled by genes GAMT1 and GAMT2, is reintroduced, the offspring come…
Street-fighting robots? Singapore wants YOU!
Imagine an urban-warfare robot that could roam the streets picking off humans at will. Well, it'd certainly liven up the opening credits to Coronation Street. Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency has launched a competition – the TechX Challenge -…
Green tips for computer energy savings
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory green tips isn't lengthy, but it does include one good one: don't use a screen saver. Screen savers are old tech designed to keep phosphors from literally burning images into a monitor that had…
The Contour Crafting appliance that makes your home
Going one step beyond designing a house for your virtual reality avatar to live in, Contour Crafting lets you develop a virtual version of your house, then hire a robot to build the shell in 24 hours. It uses…
DIY LED Bike Light System
The plans for the LED Bike Light System can be used just to make a headlight, or for the full headlight-taillight system giving a bright white light on the front and modest (but prominent) red on the back. The…
Bio-Bubble degrades into plain water
I love popping the bubbles on plastic excelsior as much as the next chick, but I do always feel a tad guilty that I'm not folding it up like I'm some kind of eco-Martha Stewart intending to reuse it…