Monthly Archives: May, 2010

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

Francisco Paz (aka TheCorpora) has released new information about his open source robot Qbo. The diminutive wheeled bot stands only 456mm (18 inches) tall...
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Sony’s New Flexible OLED Display Can Roll Into Tiny Cylinder While Playing!

The age of flexible and deformable displays is drawing nearer. Sony recently debuted its latest in OLED technology: a 4.1 inch screen that's only...

MIT’s Ridiculously Colorful Glove is Latest Hand Tracking Interface

Human computer interfaces just got a lot more colorful. Graduate student Robert Wang at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed...

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

Willow Garage is making a play to become the definitive platform for robotics research. They have a powerful tag team of open source hardware...

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

What does any good teenager do upon leaving home for the first time? Dance and party. Well, robots are no different, as we saw...

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

The PR2 robot is an amazing piece of hardware. Willow Garage set out to create a world class research platform that would include all...

Five Reasons Willow Garage is Going to Succeed

We just watched Willow Garage launch the beginning of their PR2 Beta Program, sending 11 advanced robots to live with research teams all over...

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

I've just returned from one of the most momentous events of the year: the launch of Willow Garage's PR2 Beta Program. The ambitious endeavor...

Kurzweil’s Next Book: Creating An Artificial Mind

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

Bebionic Artificial Hand To Hit Markets in June!

UK based RSLSteeper's newest artificial hand, bebionic, will be coming to a prosthetics retailer near you next month. The announcement for the hand's commercial...

Humanoid Robot Performs Cool Back Flip, Runs Like a Little Girl (Video)

Get out your Olympic style scoring cards, robots are ready to wow you with amazing feats of gymnastics. Recently released videos from FrostyDesign (AKA...

The Genome Project is 10 Years Old – Where is the Health Care Revolution?

“It is fair to say that the Human Genome Project has not yet directly affected the health care of most individuals.” – Francis Collins,...

Little Dog Robot Overcomes Obstacles, Even Those it Can’t See (Video)

Researchers at the Computational Learning & Motor Control Lab at the University of Southern California have taught an old robot dog new tricks. USC...

Radiation Robots Fry Cancer Cells With Ultra-High Precision (video)

Radiation therapy may be a great way to kill a tumor, but when doctors zap cancer cells they end up hitting healthy ones too....

Secret Messages Coded Into DNA Of Venter Synthetic Bacteria

Researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute recently unveiled their first self-replicating synthetic bacteria (M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0) whose DNA was 'programmed' base pair by...

BioFuel Cell Uses Glucose in the Body to Produce Electricity for Cyborgs

Researchers at Joseph Fourier University in France have created a new biofuel cell that harnesses oxygen and glucose from the body to produce electricity....

Stanford UAV Can Land and Take Off From the Side of a Wall (Video)

Stanford's latest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can do something I've never seen before: land on and take off from a vertical surface. Using a...

Toyota’s Robot Violinist Wows Crowd At Shanghai Expo 2010 (Video)

The Shanghai World Expo got a special treat this past week in the Japanese pavilion, when Toyota's famed violin-playing robot thrilled the crowd with...

Aubrey de Grey Fights Aging With Regenerative Medicine (Video)

Aubrey de Grey looks and speaks like a wizard, but don't dismiss him. He stands out as one of the most impassioned and well-reasoned...

Computers To Take Human Jobs, Shutdown Global Economy? Get Ford’s Book Free

I got my copy of The Lights In The Tunnel for free, and now you can too. Martin Ford's recent book discusses the growing...

Venter Creates First Synthetic Self-Replicating Bacteria from Scratch

*Update: We've included the Science interview with Venter after the break. Craig Venter wants to program life the way we program computers, and today he...

TeleHealth is Here, and It’s Growing

A new report from Intel shows that healthcare is likely to become increasingly reliant on telehealth (TH) in the next ten years. TH includes...

Ingestible Surgical Robots—Hard To Swallow Concept?

Medical robots are advancing at phenomenal speed, and within years micro-sized robots could be assisting surgeons with operations from inside their patients. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’s CRIM Lab...

Amazing Monocopter Flies With Just One Wing (Video)

The University of Maryland has produced a flying machine with only one wing - a monocopter! Evan Ulrich, its PhD student creator, modeled the...

Anybots Debuts New $15k Telepresence Robot, Is it a Fail? (video)

Anybots, the telepresence startup out of Silicon Valley, wants to bring robots to the workplace. Their new QB telerobot lets you use a web...

A Mosquito Zapping Laser That Fights Malaria? Yes!

Intellectual Ventures Lab is shooting mosquitos out of the sky with lasers. The invention-focused company received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...

Tony Robbins, Sergey Brin Become Robots – The Telepresence Revolution

This past weekend while attending an Xprize fundraiser in San Francisco I saw self-help guru Tony Robbins and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but not in...

Catch a Glimpse of the Future of Robotics, Video of ICRA 2010

IEEE's International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is always a hot bed of robotic activity and this year's meeting in Alaska was no...

Robot Performs Wedding in Japan (Video)

For what was probably the first time in history, a Japanese couple was married under the cold mechanical gaze of a robot. Kokoro's i-Fairy...

fMRI Scans Reveal Some ‘Vegetative’ Patients Are Actually Conscious!

In a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit of the University of...

What Secrets Are in the DNA of 17 Year Old Girl With Body of a Baby?

Brooke Greenberg was born in January of 1993. She's now more than seventeen years old, but she physically looks to be about one. Doctors...

Super Simple Tube Climbing Robot Wins Best Video at ICRA 2010

Sure, you can build a robot that climbs up a tube, but can you do it with little more than a cell phone vibrator?...

Fun Videos of Robotis’ Bioloid Robot in Action

Korean robotics firm Robotis is one of the premier sources of do-it-yourself robot kits in the world. One of their most advanced, and most...

Miracle Powder Regrows Fingertips? (Video)

I'd be surprised if you hadn't heard about ACell, or at least about some of their results. Their MatriStem powder has been able to...

Wild Thumper Brings Major All-Terrain Power to Robot Kits (video)

It falls off chairs, climbs up stairs, and is fun for a girl or a boy. No, it's not a Slinky, it's the Dagu...

Stem Cells Injected into Heart, Visually Tracked For 12 Months

Research recently published in Circulation Review sheds some light on how human stem cells affect myocardial damage. Scientists studied the long term effects of...

UC Irvine Stem Cell Research Center Set to Launch on Friday

Friday May 14th will mark another important day for ongoing research into human stem cells. The University of California at Irvine (UCI) is set...

Exclusive: I Already Took the DNA Test That Hits Walgreens on Friday (video)

UPDATE: Walgreens has decided to postpone stocking these genetic test kits until after the FDA is finished 'discussing' legal issues with Pathway Genomics. This Friday...

HARK! Sound Separation Software for Telepresence Robots (Video)

Part of the reason animals have two ears it to help them pinpoint where a sound is coming from and focus on it apart...

Stephen Wolfram is Computing a Theory of Everything (video)

What if the universe, in all its physical complexity, could be explained by just a few simple computational rules? Stephen Wolfram wants to find...

Stanford’s Robot Car Slides into Parking Spot Like a Badass (video)

A good robot car knows how to make the tough decisions. Stanford's Junior, the robot car that took second place at DARPA's Grand Challenge...

The Latest in the 3D Craze: Playboy’s Centerfold

This Friday will be another pivotal day in the seemingly inevitable march towards universal 3D entertainment as Playboy releases its first centerfold that leaps...

The Incredible Regenerating Mouse

More than twelve years ago, Dr. Ellen Heber-Katz at the Wistar Institute did what so many great scientific minds have done throughout time -...

Blaise Aguera Demos Amazing Dynamic and Augmented Reality Maps (Video)

Expect more from your maps. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the mind behind Sea Dragon's revolutionary approach to photo images, is ready to update maps...

Web 3.0 – A Short Documentary About The Future Of The Web

To catch a glimpse of the accelerating trends that will bring us to the singularity look no further than the web itself.  Since the...

Flying Drones for Your Home from DIY Drones (Video)

So apparently building a military style drone is a do-it-yourself project now. DIY Drones is an online community that helps the unmanned aerial vehicle...

13 Open Source Hardware Companies Making $1 Million or More (video)

Selling products whose design anyone can access, edit, or use on their own is pretty crazy. It's also good business. At the annual hacker...

The AI Doctor Is Ready To See You

Say hello to the healthcare revolution. Of the technology kind. Most of us don’t realize it, but artificial intelligence has invaded medicine. Smart software...

Stanford’s Robot Car Slides into Parking Spot (Video)

A good robot car knows how to make the tough decisions. Stanford's Junior, the robot car that took second place at DARPA's Grand Challenge...

Robot Pharmacists Are Picking Your Medications—Literally

Dispensing medicine is about to get more efficient. New Jersey’s Holy Name Hospital is using robot pharmacists to package, store and dispense medications, while...
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