Miuro: The Robot For Your iPod

A Japanese company, ZMP Inc in a joint venture with the famed Kenwood has developed an Apple iPod-based robot named Miuro. Th concept is pretty simple. It simply transforms the iPod that clings to the top of the robot into a BOOMBOX ON WHEELS. You could control the musical robot and direct it to dance [...]

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Scientists trying to teach robots some etiquettes or is it too late?

Robots can never be fully emotional but if they could get even the slightest skill to recognize other people’s emotion even that will be enough to have a soft corner for these rulers , perhaps, of the future. Such has been the wish by the researchers from Waseda University in Tokyo. They are supportive to [...]

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Artificial skin: Will it bridge the gap between humans and androids?

Technology is moving step-by-step towards making androids of the future. And development of fake skin is in fact important towards creating the real impression. Lately, this artificial skin was revealed at the 24th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society at Okayama University. The fake skin takes off the feel of real skin by combining a [...]

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Beware…Robots to patrol South Korean boarders!

It would be the highest number of droids deployment by any government, as the South Korean Govt has decided to support its army unit with 1,000 of these robots ($200,000 apiece). These gun-toting sentries can detect, raise the alarm, and provide suppressive fire as their surveillance, tracking, firing, and voice recognition systems have been built [...]

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The RuBot II cracks the cube puzzle

Who says they are at infancy stage look at this droid, no matter how intricate the cube is mixed up it solves the labyrinth within a minute. They ask for different criteria.

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Plankton powered robots to rule the oceans

The techno’s at the University of Bristol have made a robotic submarine which will be plankton powered. It’s the same team which developed, few years back, a robot powered by the dead bodies of flies. Robotic submarine need a constant supply of power, which severely limits the amount of data they can collect before they [...]

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Robotic Flies to help Military in war

British Military scientists are eyeing on insects to help them in war. To make up for it they are developing Robotic flies that can be sent in swarms to spy out enemy positions. While the enemy thinks that flies are hovering in the sky, the British will have each and every information about their enemy. [...]

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Some of the COOLEST, Japanese Robots are here…

For all you people, who are interested in Robotics, check out this amazing video to know what some of the coolest Robots on earth do… I, wonder when will Japan see a Government ruled by ROBOTS…

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Captive lions get robot for hunting and chasing

Good news for the lions kept in the captivity. The students of Strathclyde University have developed a robot named ‘LionDrover’ which has got Zebra strips and it can give lions kept in captivity a joy of chasing and hunting their prey. Serengeti is far in Africa to see lions chase and hunt their prey but [...]

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BRAT: A Bipedal Robot

BRAT is a bi pedal Robot developed by Lynxmotion. Check out these pictures to know how to assemble the BRAT, a bipedal Robot. The BRAT is not as expensive as you think, it is priced at just $300 which makes The BRAT an affordable and a sophisticated Robot. It comes with sequencing software that will [...]

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