Gaze-controlled Robot Gets a Video Demo
RThe future is upon us. Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and the IT University of Copenhagen have created a sight-controlled robot. The bot is based around a LEGO NXT-G kit. It gets paired with a webcam and a laptop that’s connected to the robot via bluetooth. Then the magic happens.
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This sweet, shark looking gizmo is actually a WiFi-enabled, remotely-controlled robotic webcam called Rovio. This bad boy allows you to remotly survey your home or office remotly through streaming video and audio transmitted via the Internet to your cell phone, PC or video game console.
Are you kidding me? This is stuff straight out of James [...]
DIY Robot Head
Longing for a robot but don’t have the green? Build yourself this $30 Android that can talk, as well as open and close applications, and who knows what else. Check the video.
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South Korea is planning two robot theme parks by 2013 - one in Incheon and the other in Seoul. The Commerce Ministry "announced a proposal to build two parks by 2013 for $1.6 billion" but there seems to be a bit of red tape (isn’t there always?).
If you can’t build them there, bring them to [...]
Galileo Robot
The Galileo robot can handle anything in its way. It has two large wheels covered by stretchy treads flanking its body, but also uses tread extenders to change their shape. With the help of a stabilizing tail, the robot can scale all kinds of terrain from hills to stairs to cinder blocks.
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I’m tired of getting pushed around, so I’m creating the very first Robot Army. Dubbed RoboPhilo, this gem of a robot comes fully assembled for $500, but I plan to assemble them myself, so I can custom them to my needs. You know, with proton lasers and other futuristic weapons I have yet to invent. [...]
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It may not look like the cutting-edge robots we have been seeing, but this Swami can recognize people’s faces (there are cameras in the eyes) and can also carry on conversations. Reminiscent of the fortune-telling machines, this $75,000 model is equipped with 30 motors in the facial region, so its expressions can unnerve the [...]
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But, if they work, then they could represent a significant advance in robotic locomotion. Air-driven, they can jump 50 cm in the air and land–no pun intended–on both feet. Advances like this are part of what makes technology so fascinating.
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There are so many robotic parts already developed - fingers, hands, legs - that one would think that a humanoid could be assembled already. Here come the robotic mouth.
From the Tokyo University of Science a report that they have created a robot capable of reproducing tongue and lower jaw movements associated with speech — [...]
i-SOBOT Coming
If your holiday shopping list has "robot" on it, then get in the virtual line for this i-SOBOT. Supposedly the world’s smallest humanoid robot at 6.5 inches tall, it has 17 custom designed actuators, a gyro-sensor; it can walk, talk, and dance.
The i-Sobot robot can understand to up to 10 voice commands and comes with [...]
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