Saturday, May 4, 2024

By David Ponce All the cool kids these days are quickly realizing that carrying their own backpacks to school is so very last week. That's why you're bound to start seeing this robotic mule popping up in a neighborhood...
By David Ponce The Japanese are at it (by "it", I mean unmatched technological awesomeness) again, this time producing one slick robot, named the WL-16RIII Walkbot. It was developed at Waseda University, and is intended to help the elderly...
By David Ponce I love robots. What we see of them today is the embryo of our future mecha-overlords. This particular model for instance, has already learned some martial arts moves. The ‘HRP-2 Promet’ of Kawada Industries...

By David Edney Look people. We need to quit making robots that can think for themselves right now! Apparently researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University designed a robot that can identify wines, cheeses, meats...
By David Ponce Never underestimate the power of untapped potential. While the Ballbot might not look like it's doing much (balancing itself on one ball and rolling back and forth, willy-nilly) we are confident that the robot is simply...

Okay... Short and sweet, again. A robot floor cleaner. Like the Roomba. This one will also mop and polish. Fun huh? The site's here. Story VIA TRFJ.

By David Ponce We usually hide videos after the fold, but this is special. See, a lot of people got weak at the knees, back in December of last year, when news that Japan's Asahi Breweries were giving away...
By David Ponce Perhaps to call this contraption a robot would be stretching the meaning of that word a little. So, think of it more like a mannequin with a creepy, yet innovative feature. It's called "Chatty", and...
Er, well, conceptually, it seems interesting. You have your little remote controlled sumo wrestling bots. You have your little arena. Fun times, right? They're neat because you can actually program some moves into them via...