Archive for the 'Robots' Category
Polymorph robot mimics human joints and muscles, puts curtain rings to good use
Using polymorph plastic, some curtain rods, electric screwdrivers, motors, and a whole lot of mad-scientist creativity, an Xrobots hobbyist created that organic-looking robot base. By using wooden sockets and curtain rings as hip joints, the designer is clearly going for a human-like creature of…
Scientists train robots to love punk music
We’ve seen plenty of robots that are capable of showing their appreciation for music, but few have as refined a taste as that trio of bots designed by a team of UK artists and scientists, which have been trained to like punk music and nothing else. That was apparently done by employing “adaptive…
22-foot tall robot crafted entirely from excess styrofoam
Building a big robot is nothing to congratulate yourself on, but doing it in that manner is certainly worthy of a little self-indulgence. The creature you see standing before you is a 22-foot tall Styrobot constructed entirely from spare polystyrene packing materials, and no, each piece didn’t j…
Video: Choe U Ram’s robotic art
Korean artist, Choe U Ram, possesses something most artists don’t, a deep understanding of robotics. With it, he constructs massive, precision engineered sculptures with an eerie biological feel. While his show titled, Anima Machines (Anima is Latin for life or soul) just wrapped up at Japan…
Video: Choe U Ram’s creepy robotic art
Korean artist, Choe U Ram, possesses something most artists don’t, a deep understanding of robotics. With it, he invents massive, precision engineered sculptures with an eerie biological feel. While his show titled, Anima Machines (Anima is Latin for life or soul) just wrapped up at the SCAI…
Mr. Asahi robot bartender makes its public debut
Asahi Beer has experimented with robot bartenders in the past, but it looks to have really outdone itself with its new Mr. Asahi bot, which just made its public debut at Selfridges in the UK. Apparnetly, the robot was built in about 200 hours and spent a full six months fine-tuning its bartend…
UMass Mobile Manipulator pushes things around, learns ways of the world
Robots teaching robots? Check. Robots teaching humans? Check. Robots learning things on their own accord? Um, terrifying? All kidding aside, the UMass Mobile Manipulator is one smart cookie. Put simply, that intelligent robot pushes objects around in order to identify how they move, and once tha…
Shape-shifting, organ-probing chembots coming soon
The current generation of robots, whether they’re the gun-carrying or child-coddling variety, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes to suit their intended purpose. But whether research going on at Tufts University comes to fruition, future robots might feature designs that are rather more flexib…
Pleo’s site turns one, little bugger’s price temporarily drops by $100
Although Pleo’s only been out for about six months, UBOBE opened up shop at PleoWorld about a year ago, and to celebrate they’re selling the robo-dino-pets at by $100 off the regular $350 price tag. The promo goes on until July 11th, and apparently all you need to do is pop in a promo cipher (PL…
Zappos hires robots to take by stock floor
Just think — Zappos has been shipping out shoes .9284 minutes after you order them for years with mere humans running the show. Now, your new kicks will likely be at your doorstep moments after you think of ordering them. Said e-tailer has just completed implementation of Kiva Systems’ Mobile F…
