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Robots

Qbo – The Tiny Open Source Robot Wants to Invigorate Human-Machine Interaction

Written by: Aaron Saenz 633 days ago

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Francisco Paz (aka TheCorpora) has released new information about his open source robot Qbo. The diminutive wheeled bot stands only [...]

Gadgets

Sony’s New Flexible OLED Display Can Roll Into Tiny Cylinder While Playing!

Written by: Aaron Saenz 634 days ago

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The age of flexible and deformable displays is drawing nearer. Sony recently debuted its latest in OLED technology: a 4.1 [...]

Computer Interfaces

MIT’s Ridiculously Colorful Glove is Latest Hand Tracking Interface

Written by: Aaron Saenz 636 days ago

Human computer interfaces just got a lot more colorful. Graduate student Robert Wang at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence [...]

Robots

Willow Garage Is Building A Platform To Propel All Of Robotics (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 636 days ago

Willow Garage is making a play to become the definitive platform for robotics research. They have a powerful tag team [...]

Robots

Willow Garage’s PR2 Robots Dance on the Way to Their New Homes (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 637 days ago

What does any good teenager do upon leaving home for the first time? Dance and party. Well, robots are no [...]

Robots

Up Close and Personal With Willow Garage’s PR2 Robot (Video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 637 days ago

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The PR2 robot is an amazing piece of hardware. Willow Garage set out to create a world class research platform [...]

Robots

Five Reasons Willow Garage is Going to Succeed

Written by: Aaron Saenz 637 days ago

We just watched Willow Garage launch the beginning of their PR2 Beta Program, sending 11 advanced robots to live with [...]

Robots

Willow Garage Ushers in Revolution With Open Source Robots (video)

Written by: Aaron Saenz 637 days ago

I’ve just returned from one of the most momentous events of the year: the launch of Willow Garage’s PR2 Beta [...]

Singularity

Kurzweil’s Next Book: Creating An Artificial Mind

Written by: Aaron Saenz 637 days ago

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Ray Kurzweil is working on another book, this one to explore the principles of human level intelligence in machines. Titled [...]

Cyborg

Bebionic Artificial Hand To Hit Markets in June!

Written by: Aaron Saenz 638 days ago

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UK based RSLSteeper‘s newest artificial hand, bebionic, will be coming to a prosthetics retailer near you next month. The announcement [...]