KornTech recently came up with the development of a one-meter tall robot known as Rogun, which is claimed to be capable of identifying faces, walk on two feet and keeps the owners on the alert to trespassers through mobile phone. Rogun’s main claim to robot identification is his facial identification via built-in cameras and “high-end [...]
Japan Science and Technology Agency has unveiled an avant-garde child-sized robot with flexible joints and soft skin. This 33 kilogram CB2 (Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body) is 1.3-meter-tall and comes packed with optical, auditory and tactile sensors. It demonstrate the physical ability of a 1 or 2-year-old child and can turn over and stand up with [...]
Based on Guy Hoffman’s Ph.D thesis on human-robot fluency and nonverbal behavior a new robotic desk lamp has been developed called AUR or robotic desk lamp or a collaborative lighting assistant. The design of this lamp features an existing 5-DoF robotic arm, though the lamp don’t have any human-like specs but still it manages to [...]
News regarding robots always excites us! One of the major causes for their massive fan following is that they are simply cool! They do not think much, only work accordingly. This feature makes them a little above from human beings. Well, you would be amazed to know that few robots are cooler as compare to [...]
Robots no more gets special treatment in Japan. Fuji Heavy Industries and Sumitomo have designed a Tondon robot that will now clean the apartments. Tondon robot features a special ‘Balinese’ paint job (means yellow with scribbles all over it) to go with the building it works in. Tondon robot cleans everything from carpets to gutters [...]
World’s first robot that acted as master of ceremonies at a South Korean wedding of Seok Gyeong-Jae, one of the engineers who designed it. This Trio robot features a cone-shaped body, two arms and a dark-glassed face with eyes and a mouth of flashing lights that indicated smiles for guests. The robot introduced the couple [...]
Let’s meet with Zeno. Yet, he can not talk or walk but he can blink eyes to track people. His face will hold your interest with a range of expressions. David Hanson, the genius inventor and father of ‘Frubber’ life-like robotic skin has introduced his 18 month-old son Zeno, who smiles as he is bound [...]
Humans would one day become a thing of the past. Movies like Terminator, i-Robot and Cyborg have been fuelling people’s fears of becoming obsolete. Observing the rate at which robots are developing, to do almost everything that only we humans can, it is a cinch that they would replace us as the most sought-after labor, [...]
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has now come up with a unique way to develop LANdroid WiFi robots, which are intelligent crawling radio-relay robots with size equal to that of a deck of cards. LANdroids are there on the DARPA’s technology wish-list. DARPA is requesting for intelligent self-directed radio relay nodes that could set [...]
Looks like Japanese toymaker Bandai has done it again. From its proud vault will be released thousands of millions of robotic bugs that will invade our homes. But don’t even think of smashing these up cause these babies are worth $10 (approx.) each. Hex Bug series is one of the latest creations of this wonder [...]