Robotics Category - Page 3

It’s a great day when I can put up a robot story, and this one will be no exception. News emerges out of Germany about a robot that not only can perform a variety of useful tasks, but will actually be happy about it. The robot in question is called [...]

I love robot stories, generally, but sometimes even I get the creeps from the robots I end up seeing. And this pointy-headed robe-and-collar-wearing TalkTorque 2 robot is definitely one of those. While its makers purport it to be a master of “non-verbal communication”, the only non-verbal communication I get from [...]

Smartphones go through a whole lot of flicking and tapping and similar motions, and as such, they need a way to be tested before they end up in the hands of all of us, who flick and tap like crazy at our smartphone screens. The Novel Corporation of Japan figured [...]

Well, if you weren’t convinced that you could find just about anything you want on eBay (I myself only just managed to get a still-new copy of Tales From The Hood on DVD this weekend, and I’d thought that one was lost forever), prepare to be convinced in the grandest [...]

I think if I’d asked my parents, when I was a kid, for a Ple0rb for Christmas (and yes, that is a zero in there), if they didn’t laugh me out of whatever room we were in I likely wouldn’t have been able to live with myself later, because what [...]

Been a while since I last got you some robot news, folks–but that’s about to change with the news that Aldebaran Robotics is about to release its Romeo humanoid robot model. The first prototype will be ready to show in March 2011, and while this is a fairly optimistic projection, [...]

You’d think that in a country of just over 1.3 billion people (according to the World Bank), you could find someone willing to wait tables. Not that I’m entirely unsympathetic, mind you; I worked retail in my teenage years like a whole lot of people and I believe I’d sooner [...]

There were those who called the Parrot AR.Drone the darling of CES not so long ago, and now, the flying remote controlled wonder is getting a little extra boost via some open source code from Urbi. Developed by a user going by the name of “Psykokwak” (and I assure you [...]

The telepresence robot phenomenon appears to be cranking up a bit, as Mantaro puts out an entrant that offers a critical edge–affordability. At least, affordability on a relative scale; when some models cost upward of five figures, seeing one that fits into the low-four total is a comparative relief. And [...]

Robot news is entertaining by itself, but when you can throw in lines like “allows paraplegics to walk again”, well, now you’ve really got something to see. And that’s exactly what the folks out at one Israeli firm are set to do with their release of the ReWalk system.