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Honda’s New ASIMO Robot Shows Off
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Honda has been busy, and not on new versions of the Civic or Accord. Today, the company has unveiled their new ASIMO robot, improving upon the 10 year-old design. Now ASIMO can kick balls, (hopefully not human male’s) hop on a single leg and it can even predict the direction… |
November 8th, 2011
MABEL: Running Robot Rocks it
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Most of the bipedal robots I’ve seen over the years are pretty pokey. But this robot can run at a peak speed of 6.8 MPH, which is definitely about the point where I fall down and go flying onto the floor on the treadmill.… |
August 26th, 2011
KURMET Bipedal Robot Jumps Like a Frog, But Isn’t Green
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The fact that I am creeped out more than a grown man should be by some robots is well established. Hector did me in as a kid. There is more than a little creepy to KURMET for me – it’s the blue knob feet I think. That and I could… |
May 13th, 2011
Turkish Iron Man Robot Will Hopefully Not Go Crazy and Kill Us All
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I didn’t expect Turkey to come up with its own Iron Man, but it looks like they did. It was created by a research team at the Sabanci University in Istanbul and is Turkey’s first humanoid robot. They call him SURALP, not Turkish Iron Man, which seems kind of a… |
October 14th, 2010
Omg, Run, It’S Hector! Oh Wait, It’S Just Lola
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When I was a kid, there wasn’t any parental supervision over what I watched on TV. I once watched a flick called Hotel Hell and couldn’t go into the meat area in the grocery store for six months. I can thank the sci-fi flick Saturn 3… for my unnatural fear |
May 6th, 2010
Element Commune: Legohaulic’S Walking LEGO Mech
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Tyler Clites, who’s also known as Legohaulic, put together this amazing LEGO build. He calls it Element Commune. When you first see it, it looks like a great design, but then when you see the thing walking around, it’s takes it to a whole ‘nother level.… |
March 11th, 2010
Co-Robot Offers (Drunken) Humanoid Moves on the Cheap
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While it certainly isn’t the most sophisticated robot out there, this kit from Japan is possibly the least expensive bipedal robot I’ve seen. The Co-Robot keeps it on the cheap by using just a single motor and a wobbly gear-drive system to help it amble along. Now don’t expect the… |
November 24th, 2008
Yeti Walker Bi-Ped Robot Perfect for Star Wars Fans
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Looking for a way to build yourself a functional AT-ST walker? Have I got the perfect robot for you. The AREXX YT-3000 (aka “YETi Walker”) is a bi-pedal robot which can be programmed using your PC or an remote-controlled via an IR interface. It’s powered by an ATMEGA8 microcontrolller, which… |
October 29th, 2008
