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Actroid F Female Telepresence Robot Looks Super Real, Creepy
Written by: Aaron Saenz 453 days ago
When you speak with your family over a webcam they may be able to see your face, but they don’t [...]
We Don’t Need Digital Textbooks, We Just Need Digital Education
Written by: Aaron Saenz 454 days ago
We are a generation educated by reading textbooks, taught by teachers who relied on special editions of textbooks for answers, [...]
Steven Johnson, Robert Krulwich, and Kevin Kelly Dismiss Singularity, Kurzweil (video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 455 days ago
Is the Singularity Near? Depends on who you ask. The New York Public Library and FORA.tv recently sponsored a discussion [...]
World’s Fastest Miniature Robot Mice Blaze Thru Mazes (video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 456 days ago
Every year, people from all over the world compete see who can build the fastest mouse. Mouse robot that is. [...]
Chatterbot Fools Judge Into Thinking It’s Human at Competition
Written by: Aaron Saenz 456 days ago
The next time you’re on IM, you better watch out, computers are getting better and better at pretending to be [...]
$230,000 And You Can Buy Your Own Robot Legs
Written by: Aaron Saenz 456 days ago
If you’re like me you grew up on cartoons and scifi books with heroes that fought evil in robotic walking [...]
Sony’s 360 View 3D Display – The Snow Globe of the Future
Written by: Aaron Saenz 457 days ago
Help me Obi-wan Kenobi…Sony’s ripping off our ideas. Since late last year, Sony’s been showing off a really cool looking [...]
Washington Creates World’s First Cyborg with a Balance Implant (video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 457 days ago
Researchers at the University of Washington are pioneering an area of cybernetics that few have explored: the sense of balance. [...]
iRobot’s Universal Gripper Pours A Drink and Draws Shapes (video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 457 days ago
One of the world’s most versatile robot hands doesn’t look like a hand at all. iRobot’s universal robotic gripper is [...]
Want A Great Formula 1 Simulator? Ride this Robot Arm! (video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 458 days ago
Give engineers any excuse, and they’re going to find a way to combine robots and video games. Researchers at the [...]