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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
Robot Learns to Clean Whiteboard, Still Won’t Help If You Used a Sharpie
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After teaching a robot to flip pancakes and shoot arrows, Dr. Petar Kormushev decided to instruct his robot in a new skill that could come in handy at your next meeting – cleaning whiteboards.… |
February 14th, 2011
AFFETTO Robot Head Will Creep You Out
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I know that this isn’t really supposed to have anything to do with Halloween or scaring people, but what the heck guys, this robot baby head is really disturbing, especially when the guy starts moving the head around and the baby comes alive.… |
February 8th, 2011
Kinect Controls Humanoid Robot: Giant Robotic Army Not Far Away
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Another day, another Kinect hack. This particular hack is quite cool, mapping the body movements of a human onto the joints of a humanoid robot.… |
January 15th, 2011
Reem-H2 Humanoid ‘Bot Aims to Scare the Life Out of You
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I don’t know why, but this scary robot isn’t from Japan, no siree, it’s from Spain. It’s safe to say that if these humanoid robots with faces like these take over the world, we’ll all be in trouble. Or at least psychologically scarred. This ghost-faced killer (ok, we don’t know… |
November 17th, 2010
Honda’S Asimo Robot Turns Ten
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I remember the first time I saw the ASMIO robot from Honda. I wondered why a car company was building a robot to begin with. It has now been a decade since the first ASIMO robot hit the stage and Honda is celebrating the occasion.… |
November 1st, 2010
Hrp-4c Singing Robot: Robo-Tune
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Just like humans, singing is a (synthesized) talent among robots. Some have it, and some don’t. AIST’s HRP-4C, a relative of the HRP-4 humanoid robot, was born to sing like a human being. An in-house developed software called VocalListener is responsible for synthesizing a natural singing voice. The effect is… |
October 15th, 2010
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
NASA’s Robonaut 2 Will Tweet His Way Into Space
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The spaceship Discovery will leave Earth on its final mission on the 1st of November. It will take along something entirely different, a robot! This is the robot that we’ve heard about before, the Robonaut 2, but there is something new about it: it will be tweeting all the way… |
August 17th, 2010
Myon Humanoid Robot Looks Cute, but Only has One Eyeball
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It looks like another company is working on a cute humanoid robot. This time, the ‘bot comes from Germany, and he’s some kind of walking cyclops. The Myon robot is about 50 inches tall and weighs 33lbs. Myon is an interesting robot because of a few different things. He’s got… |
June 23rd, 2010
