Monthly Archives: April, 2011

Norwegian Boy Stuns Viewers With Now Famous Robot Dance (video)

I'm not sure what the world loves more: cute robots, or cute kids. Luckily, 10 year old Tord from Norway is a little bit...
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iRobot’s Latest Military Bot Is a Pocket-Sized Spy Tank You Can Throw (video)

It takes a lot of courage to run into a firefight. It takes a lot of robotics to not have to. iRobot recently unveiled...

Open Source Robot, DARwIn-OP, Shows Off at RoboGames 2011 (video)

The original Charles Darwin taught the world about the origin of species. The DARwIn-OP may teach the world about the evolution of robots. The...

Brazilian “RoboCop” Security Goggles Over-Hyped, We’ve Got the Real Facts

For most, the eyes and face are windows to the soul, but for the bad guys at the 2014 World Cup, it could be...

Control YouTube With Your Voice!

If surfing YouTube for videos is just too grueling of a task for you, don't worry. A developer in Idaho has recently created a...

Kurzweil’s Talk At Presidential Conference in Israel Now Available for Free (video)

If at first you don't succeed in convincing the world that a Technological Singularity is near then try, try again. Ray Kurzweil has been...

Exoskeletal Arm Support From Equipois to be Released in June

Gravity can be a pain, literally.  Any of you who work in a factory, lab, operating room, or any other setting that requires repetitive...

100,000 Toothpicks and 37 Years Later, Man Completes Incredible Model Of San Francisco

For all you ping pong balls out there, get ready to take a tour of San Francisco that will blow your fictional minds. Since...

What is the Future of Books? Kindle Lending Library, Piracy, and More!

Going to your local public library? Don't forget your e-reader. Amazon recently announced that their new Kindle Lending Library feature will be arriving "later...

Immortal Jellyfish Provides Clues for Regenerative Medicine

The search for the fountain of youth has been ongoing ever since man decided that dying wasn’t all that appealing. And now, it appears...

The Rise of Gen-CS? Computer Science Interest at Stanford Skyrocketing

Something strange is afoot at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department. About five years ago, the top-ranked department had seen much better days. The dot-com...

Phenomenal Video Footage of Extreme Sports From RC Helicopters

There are spies in the skies, and they're trying to catch you doing something awesome. As remote controlled flying drones have become more sophisticated...

Look Out Humans – This FRIDA Robot From ABB Will Take Your Factory Job

If a human worker can do it, why not a robot? Swiss robotics giant ABB recently unveiled a new concept robot that showcases how...

Cool Videos of the Robonova-1 Humanoid Robot

Surviving in the field of toy robotics isn't easy - it takes durability, versatility, and no small measure of charm. Robonova-1 has been a...

Pharm. Company Roche Blocking Blindness Cure. Why?

Many great scientific discoveries were born out of pure accident.  How about curing blindness in only one or two treatments with a drug that...

Wow! Model Factory Made With Lego Robots Moves 48 Items Per Minute (video)

Chris Shepherd, you are a Lego god. In his continuing obsession with all things Lego, robotic, and awesome, Shepherd recently constructed the Lego Quad...
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Incredible Video of California Woman’s Hand Transplant

The latest recipient of a hand transplant is coping well in Los Angeles. On March 5th, Emily Fennel, age 26, received a donor right...

Google Brings Map Maker to the US. Crowd Sourced Maps Are the Future (video)

Congratulations, you've just been hired by Google. In a quest to bring high-quality digital maps to every corner of the globe, Google produced Map...

Willow Garage Is Selling An Amateur Level Robot! Say Hi To TurtleBot (video)

For those that have been drooling over Willow Garage's PR2, the Silicon Valley robotics company has a way to curb your hunger. Starting early...

Lots of Bots and Tots at Stanford’s Robot Block Party (video)

Have no fear of an upcoming war between machines and humans, the fact is that the war has already been fought in the hearts...

Organic Farmers Unite Against Monsanto In Battle For Future of Food

Another chapter in the ongoing David-and-Goliath-esque saga between organic farmers and the Monsanto Company kicked off recently with a lawsuit filed in federal court....

World’s Oldest Man Dies at 114, Thanks For All The Wisdom Walter Breuning

"We're all going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die." -- Walter Breuning The...

Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack On Humanity

Hide ya kids, hide ya wife! According to the Terminator franchise, at 8:11 PM today (April 19th), the military-designed artificial intelligence system called Skynet...

Transcendent Man Plays In San Francisco. Here’s A Transcript of Q&A Session

Even a great film is better when played in front of the right crowd. Transcendent Man, Barry Ptolemy's documentary on the life and ideas...

Limitless Movie Thrills, But What’s The Future of Smart Pills?

Limitless is a film about Eddie Morra, a man who just wants to do his best. He’s ingesting a smart drug, or nootropic, named NZT-48...

I’ve Got Pictures of that Mysterious “Apple Robot” You Were Asking About!

A few weeks ago, a video of a mysterious rolling robot made it's way through the blogosphere raising a few questions as to whether...

Robots Take Over Hospital Pharmacy as Human Pill-Counting Talents Go To Waste (VIDEO)

A new pharmacy supplying medicine to the UCSF Medical Center is currently under the control of a handful of Swiss and Canadian robots that...

Crowd Sourced Choir Sings Over Internet With the Power of 2000 Voices (video)

The internet has quickly become the place where everyone's voice can be heard...literally. The Virtual Choir project collected 2052 self-made recordings of people performing...

John Nolan’s Incredible Animatronics Turn Nightmares into Robots (video)

Suburban dads with pig heads, dead mice, road kill squirrels, and mewling premature babies - these are just some of the disturbing images that...

G-Dog Robot Is a Humanoid’s Best Friend (video)

They may not be as cuddly as their furry biological counterparts, but training a robot dog involves far fewer ruined carpets, and many more...

Billionaire Thrillseeker Richard Branson to Pilot a Submarine to The Deepest Parts of the Ocean (video)

After conquering space, what’s a billionaire to do? Conquer the oceans, of course. Later this year, Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson plans to launch a series...

Exclusive Offer – 2 for 1 Tickets to Transcendent Man in San Francisco, Thurs. April 14th

Want to watch a movie with me? The Transcendent Man documentary is coming to San Francisco tomorrow night, and I have a sweet deal...

Kurzweil Visits Colbert Report, Transcendent Man Ready for Mainstream? (video)

The Singularity may be near, but Stephen Colbert's comedy hits much closer to home. Ray Kurzweil, noted author and futurist, visited the set of...

Anybots Has An Army of Telepresence Robots Ready to Send Your Way!

There's little in this world that will frustrate us technophile types more than having to wait for our robots to arrive in the mail....

160,000+ Watch Virtual Popstar Hatsune Miku Return to the Stage (video)

She's beautiful, she's talented, she's immensely popular...and she's not real. Hatsune Miku the virtual popstar creation of Crypton Future Media in Japan, has sold...

Is Aged-Based HIV/AIDS Testing the Key to Stamping Out the Disease?

HIV/AIDS is a huge health problem in the world and a cure still seems years away.  Yet even though a cure has eluded us, testing...

First New Treatment for Lupus Erythematosus in Over Fifty Years!

A small, but significant victory has been won in the war against lupus, one of the most debilitating systemic auto-immune diseases. The US FDA...

X-Ray Vision: Handheld Radar Allows Army/Security To Look Inside Walls

A portable device the the size of a textbook promises to give army and security personnel the x-ray vision of Superman...only without the x-rays....

Watch the US Navy Use A Laser Beam to Set a Boat on Fire (video)

Naval combat is finally entering the 21st Century. Last Wednesday, April 6th, the Office of Naval Research conducted a test of their Maritime Laser...

Free DNA Analysis From 23andMe – Good Gimmick, Tired Technology?

It's the biggest sale of the spring, and it's available right now in every cell in your body. Personal genomics pioneers, 23andMe are offering...

Robot Bartenders Call The Shots At BarBot 2011 (video)

You know what I love about geeks? They understand that the only thing better than a nice cold drink is a nice cold drink...

New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Thanks to a German research institute, in the very near future, we may not even see the cameras looking back at us at all. It...

Scientist Records 230,000 Hours of Son’s Childhood: What It Means and What’s Next

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates When Deb Roy’s son invites his girlfriend over for dinner with his family, there will be much...

Surgical Robot Folds Tiny Paper Plane And Lets It Fly (video)

Sure, when I make a paper airplane it's goofing off, but when a robot does it, it's a phenomenal PR campaign. Doctor James Porter,...

eTextbooks and Educational Apps: iPads Enter the Classroom

Rolling backpacks are lame.  There, I said it.  No one wants to be that kid rolling into class, crushing people’s toes and running into...

Brain Computer Implant Still Working in Patient 1000 Days Later

The latest report from academia: when you hack someone's brain to turn them into a cyborg, count on it lasting for a few years....

DaVinci Surgical Robot Plays ‘Operation’ Board Game, Saves Cardboard Life (Video)

Modern life teaches us funny lessons like: if you can't win at a child's board game, use a multimillion dollar robot to cheat. PhD...

Robot Replicants Gather With Their Originals In World’s Creepiest Reunion (video)

There are only a handful of people in the world who can say they have a robotic clone of themselves, and most of them...

Robotic Musicians Push Boundaries of What Machines and Instruments Can Do (video)

The next wave of upcoming musicians don't have soul. Or heart. Or even blood. That's because these cutting edge instrumentalists are robots. Expressive Machines...

A Liquid Biopsy Test on the Market? A $30 Million Partnership May Finally Make it Happen

As Singularity Hub followers are well aware, it’s an exciting time in cancer screening. We’ve recently highlighted a number of new technologies that are...
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