The Verge Chooses ‘The Best Drone You Can Buy’ [Video]
Tech aficionados at The Verge have put the best drones out there to the test, revealing which quadcopter flies high above the rest.
Lacking Fans? Don’t Worry – They Have Cheering Robot Fans In Korea Now
Not everyone can have a huge cheering fan base to motivate them along their way. It takes a lot of effort to build such a fan base, and yet more effort to keep them. This all seems like far too much hard work. Here’s Korea’s solution…
The New US Military DARPA Robot Is Off The Chain [Video]
People of Earth, meet your new robotic overlord: Cujo AKA the Legged Squat Support System (LS3).
Finally, A Legal Form Of Slavery [Video]
No-one (we know) is pro the idea of slavery, but we certainly do like the idea of hard graft being done for us, while we chill the hell out. If only it could be done without anyone suffering in the process. Turns out it can..
SA Company Selling Pepper-Spraying Drones
A South African company has built a drone designed to shower pepper spray on unruly crowds and says it has begun supplying units to an international mining company.
Obama Meets And Plays Soccer With Humanoid Robot [Video]
The POTUS took a moment out of his tour of Japan to to hang out with with ASIMO, a robot at Japan’s Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.
Your Favourite Honda Asimo Robot Is Now More Human Than Ever [VIDEO]
For a robot, Asimo is a real cutie. We wouldn’t mind adopting Honda’s humanoid robot which was first introduced to the world almost 14 years ago. Take a look at Asimo’s latest improvements.
Of Course An Unemployed Japanese Guy Built A Gymnast Robot In His Basement [VIDEO]
You can all go home now, an unemployed Japanese man has demonstrated – via the robot that he casually built in his basement – that you are not actually pursuing the best possible outcome to your life. Presenting: Robot Number 17 performing on the Horizontal Bar.
Japan Is Sending A Talking Robot To The International Space Station To Cure Loneliness [VIDEO]
The Japanese HTV-4 cargo vessel launched on Sunday, beginning its journey to the International Space Station. Along with 3,5 tons of supplies for the astronauts aboard the space station, a tiny talking robot will join the crew.
Meet The World’s Smallest Flying Robot [VIDEO]
American scientists, Dr Kevin Ma and his team led by Dr Robert Wood, have created a flying robot as small as a fly. Dubbed the “robo-fly”, the robot is built from carbon fibre, weighs less than a gram and has “super-fast electronic muscles to power its wings.”
Resourceful Guy Makes Robotic Arm To Pilfer Drinks From Vending Machines [VIDEO]
French YouTube user ioduremetallique, has made a robotic arm that reaches inside vending machines, and pilfers multiple cans of soda. The video shows how the robot works inside and outside of the vending machine. The only downfall is that the video is in French.
Print Your Own Robot For 7 Grand [GALLERY]
Hell, print your own robot army, if you want. The future is NOW! If you have access to a basic 3D printer, a few motors, a circuit board and a cool R7 000, the InMoov robot could be yours. Gael Langevin, a 41 year old French sculptor, model-maker and dedicated robot developer, reckons it’s easy […]
This Robot Can Dance Gangnam Style Better Than You Can [VIDEO]
Much like a highly contagious strain of superflu, PSY’s Gangnam Style has penetrated every tier of society and has even managed to somehow find its way into the military and redirect otherwise well-spent funding to teaching a highly advanced robot how to perform the infamous dance.
A Robot Tentacle Gentle Enough To Pick Up A Flower
Robots have an unfortunate rep as cold, heartless machines designed with the express purpose of crushing, destroying or otherwise permanently rearranging the makeup or anything smaller or weaker than themselves. A newly released video however casts the mechanical beings in a different light, one which shows that they are capable of immense finesse, so much so that they could pick a flower without damaging it at all.
Voice Synthesizer Resurrects Dead Singers’ Voices
Score one for creepy technology. Vocaloid, a voice-synthesis brand owned by Yamaha, has come up with a process by which to “resurrect” any singer’s voice for use in synthesized songs, without requiring the vocalist to build up a painstaking voice library first – so they could be doing that Kurt Cobain/Michael Jackson duet album pretty soon.
Japan Shows Off Intelligent Robot – Well Hello, Skynet
Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Hasegawa Group have doomed us all to inevitable destruction at the hands of our robot creations by releasing footage of an experimental robot they’ve designed that basically models its behaviour on human cognitive processes, i.e. it learns from its actions.
Amazing, Lifelike Dental Practice: Japanese Robot Opens Wide [VIDEO]
The girl pictured is actually a robot named Showa Hanako 2. She was originally developed as a tool for dentists looking to practice new procedures, but is now able to recognise voice commands, turn her head and open her mouth real wide! Before your mind ends up in the gutter, see the video as to why she’s designed like that.
Snake Robots Deployed In Japanese Rescue Missions
Rescue robots have been deployed in the parts of of Japan worst affected by the massive earthquake and tsunamis that struck Friday. Robiticist Satoshi Tadoko is apparently leading a team from Tohoku Universityen route to Sendai with ‘a snakelike robot that can wriggle into debris to hunt for people.’
Japanese Space Agency Wants To Send Sexy Robot Into Space. For ‘Comfort.’
Ha! Yes. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is looking at plans to send a humanoid robot to the International Space Station. Except by humanoid I mean it will look attempt to look sexy but end up being insanely creepy. Also, it’s going to post photos and text to Twitter.
The Future Is Creepy: Now With Prosthetic Tentacles!
On the whole, I am a fan of living in the future; video-phone calls, makin’ sheep immortal, that whole schtick. Except every now and then, slightly disturbing developments crop up, and I’m forced to consider a future where this is much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and zombies. Case in point: you can replace missing arms with robot tentacles.
New Japanese Robot Creeps Everybody Out
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out that the lady on the left is a robot. It’s the futuristic version of accidentally chatting up a mannequin, except like a million times more unsettling. Because mannequins don’t have powerful robot arms that can crush a man.