HPI Japan just conjured up GR-001’s new best friend: the G-Dog. The DIY, four-legged robot with a taste for jugulars and what appears to be a sword for a tail stands just 5.3-inches tall and features the same control unit and sensors of his bipedal buddy. Presumably, G-Dog will only respond to street-wize greetings of [...]
Termites be warned: Australian outfit Termicam is bringing the noise Predator-style with the Termibot, a dual-tread thermal imaging robot designed to eliminate insects. The bot scoots around inside walls and under houses relaying information from its thermal camera and moisture sensors back to an operator, and when termite (or other insect) activity is detected, it [...]
Japanese researchers have developed a four legged “Spiderman†robot — made from metal and rubber — that boasts suction cups on each leg, enabling it to climb up walls.
Though still in development stage very soon the military might use such units for surveillance and even combat. So the government has been lying to us! I [...]
We literally see a new iPod dock hit the streets every single day (when you can find ten of them at Target, it would seem that the market is already a bit oversaturated), however, Japanese manufacturer’ ZMP’s Miuro is the first one we’ve spotted that will actually follow you around the house and shake its [...]
Korean start-up D2E Robotics looks to be aiming to take down WowWee’s RoboSapien (ED-209-style) with its upcoming programmable robot, the decidedly less-catchily-named D2V-ZN. Set to retail for close to $750 US when it launches this October, the one-foot-tall programmable mech comes loaded with a built-in camera and will recognize voice commands.. While it’s certainly a [...]
Created by Masaaki Nagumo, the “Land Walker†is a wearable robot suit — think Mobile Suit Gundam — that stands 3.4m high and weighs a hefty 907kg (1-ton) — “can walk forward, backward or sideways at 1.5 kph by operating four pedals, and shoots sponge bullets from two air guns installed beside the cockpit.†Available [...]
That cute and cuddly Manoi robot we peeped in September is about to enter the market with a new and properly menacing visage. That’s fine by us ’cause if a robot isn’t throwin‘ flame or probing criminal orifices, well, then it isn’t really being true to its nature now is it? This 13.3-inch, 3.1-pound robot [...]
It seems fans of golf take every precaution to not get any exercise at all when playing the “sport”. Caddys to carry your clubs, golf carts to whisk you from here to there—why is Tiger Woods considered an athlete again?
To this end, the Automatic Golf Tee holds 35 balls and automatically feeds balls onto a [...]
In an announcement that you can probably expect to be repeated by rival Pakistan in the next few days, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has claimed that his South Asian nation will be the latest country to pursue technologies for developing a robotic army. Singh’s remarks came during the inauguration of a new building for [...]
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Specifically built for 2005’s Burning Man event, this towering robot looms over the humans below. Click image for a full-sized verison.
[via Robots-Dreams]
From TecheBlog
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The final version of Korea’s planned army of networked domestic robots may look nothing like this prototype, but it’s a start. The model is designed to do such mundane tasks as answering the door and playing media files. And, yes, it can connect to the net and download orders from the mothership. So don’t let [...]
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You know, we’re fairly sure there’s nothing Vstone’s Tetsujin 28 can do that the the OMNIZERO.2 can’t, but damned if Gigantor doesn’t have a place carved out in our hearts / homes / wallets. We’ve been waiting a long time for you, Gigantor, and Vstone’s finally put it on sale (in Japan). This bigger than [...]
You’ve got 14 years, South Korea, to make good on your promise: 100% market penetration for robots in the home some time between 2015 and 2020. We’ll be generous and give you the later date to work with, but don’t you and your Ministry of Information and Communication go spouting off about how you’ve got [...]
Back in March of 2004, Akibalive.com reported about NUVO, an amazing robot from Japan that can walk and talk, and even understands you. It was originally only able to speak and understand Japanese, but now it’s capable of speaking and understanding English. Here’s an excerpt from the original post last year:
Nuvo stands 39cm high and [...]
The iDog, SEGA’s toy robot dog that dances, lights up, and does stuff, has been bred in a new color thats not really…a color. Black. Demand for the iDog has been insane lately, with Amazon.com completely selling out of the white iDog. The black iDog will do absolutely nothing new. It will still dance. It [...]
