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By Dan on June 2, 2009
iShoes, available at theishoes.com, are motorized shoes that allow the wearer to roll along paths and streets at speeds up to 13.5 MPH. Basically, they are roller skates with 500 Watt motors on them!
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By Dan on June 2, 2009
A robot named Simroid allows dental students to interact with a realistic, robotic patient. Simroid can sense pain, listen to the student, and even talk back to the student, making it a very realistic robot.
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| Tagged medical, New Robots, simroid, video
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By Dan on June 1, 2009
A Roomba was made to be voice activated by Verbal Machines Ltd, a company specializing in “Interactive Embedded Speech Products.” This Roomba listens to you.
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By Dan on May 27, 2009
Finally, a humanoid robot that does emotions well. KOBIAN doesn’t just do facial expressions like most other humanoid robots. This bot uses its whole body to convey emotion, much like how we humans display body-language.
We’re one step closer to having the friendly, humanoid robotic housekeeper we were all supposed to have by now. KOBIAN, make [...]
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| Tagged bipedal, emotion, humanoid, japan, kobian, New Robots, video
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By Dan on May 20, 2009
Daniel M. Perez encountered a tiger in Belgium. Not a live tiger, but a motorized, mechanical tiger. The tiger was created by a local artist, who proceeded to ride the tiger!
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| Tagged belgium, mechanical, motorized, tiger, video
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By Dan on May 19, 2009
Kudos to the person who made this Pac-Man Roomba. I know from experience that soldering that many LEDs gets old quick!
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| Tagged hack, leds, pac-man, robot, Roomba, video
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By Dan on April 25, 2009
Will people help this robot find its way across the park?
42 minutes and 29 people later, it got to the other side.
[Tween Bots]
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By Dan on April 17, 2009
How have robots changed the way we fight wars and what part will they play in the future? With thousands of UAVs and ground robots already fighting in war-zones, what impact have they had and how will they change the way we fight and think of war?
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By Dan on March 11, 2009
Robots are tending to tomato plants at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Nikolaus Correll, an MIT postdoc, has made a robot fitted with a watering pump and programmed to tend to tomato plants grown in the MIT’s CSAIL.
In the video above, the robots appear to be built on a modified Roomba with [...]
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| Tagged agriculture, autonomous, gardening, MIT, New Robots, Roomba, swarm, tomato
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By Dan on March 8, 2009
The new trailer for Terminator Salvation.
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| Tagged movie, terminator, trailer, video
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