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Popular This Week1. Picturesque Robot Paintings - Brian Despain Art Shows Robots Living Life to the Fullest (GALLERY)  Roq La Rue Gallery is now showing this Brian Despain art, featuring robots in some unusual circumstances. They’re experiencing the world one situation at a time, from swimming with fish to chatting with…2. Robotic Bikers - Joules is the Perfect Tandem Biking Partner (VIDEO)  Love going for a bike ride but are too lazy to actually pedal? Joules, the robot bike chauffeur, is here to help. The bicycle-pedaling robot sits on the back of a tandem bike. All you have to do is sit… |
Popular This Month1. 44 Kids Tech Toys - Virtual and Hi-Tech Toys Signal the End of Old School Big Bird (CLUSTER)  If you’ve used Google at all today, you might have noticed Sesame Street’s Big Bird legs. Why the sudden tribute to the iconic kid’s program? Well today is Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. Yes, it’s been…2. Animal-Inspired Robotics - Robotech Cheetah's Mechanical Design Based on Biology (VIDEO)  Robotic designer Sangbae Kim, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biomimetic Robotics Lab has undertaken an ambitious project: Building a lightweight carbon-fiber-foam composite robotic…3. Iconic Robot Hoodies - R2-D2 Hoodie is an Easy Way to Dress Up for Halloween (GALLERY)  Frosti is a hoodie designer and a a self-proclaimed “vessel of awesomeness.” I think I am going to have to agree with her on this one. Coming out with a nice selection of kickass hoodies for the Halloween…4. Life-Saving Robots - Robocue Comes to the Rescue Where Humans Hesitate to Go (VIDEO)  There are a lot of situations where it is extremely dangerous for one person to help another. The threat is often too high in earthquake wreckage and bad car accidents. Now to assist humans in peril comes…5. Plastic Pugilist Costumes - Life-Sized Rockem Sockem Robots are Better than Your Costume (GALLERY)  Rockem Sockem Robots are a great toy that lets children vent their frustrations via plastic figurines. Ian Austin has not let his childhood dream of becoming a real life Rockem Sockem Robots figurine die.…6. Flame-Throwing Gadgets - The Prometheus Device Packs Some Serious Heat (GALLERY)  Have you ever wanted a superhero power? I wanted to do the Bat Dance like Adam West, but that is not really a power. How about shooting flames out of your palms? Everett Bradford created the Prometheus…7. Shape-Shifting Blob Bots - Chemical Robot Prototypes to Enter Inaccessible Spaces (VIDEO)  The soft, shape-shifting chembot blobs that roll around and change shape in order to gain mobility are still experimental, but they are part of DARPA’s Chemical Robots Program vision.
The DARPA program…8. Computer Whiz Wastelands - Tech Skills Go to Waste in 'Guitar Hero'-Playing Robots  If an individual is gifted with a technological mind and serious mathematical skill, they should really use it to better the world. Making 'Guitar Hero'-playing robots does not fall in the ‘bettering the…9. 16 Expressive Innovations - From Expressive Lids to Emotional Meat (CLUSTER)  Sometimes you’re sitting alone and all you want to see is a friendly (or at the very least, an empathetic) face. Imagine your surprise (and perhaps delight) if you do happen to look over and discover a…10. Robotastic Artworks - Robot Art by Brian Kappel is Funny -- Until We're Their Slaves (GALLERY)  Art is can be inspired by anything and has no bounds, which is exactly why art geared to a certain demographic is even more scintillating -- especially when your demographic is robots and you make robot…11. Sensory Robotic Limbs - Scientists Confirm First Feeling Hand (VIDEO)  Scientists from Italy and Sweden have confirmed the first surgically implanted artificial hand that has feeling. For the first time in history, scientists have successfully implanted a prosthesis capable…12. Superhero Anatomy Enhancers - The Power Loader Exoskeleton Lets Users Lift 220 Pounds (VIDEO)  For those who always wanted the strength of the Hulk, this may be your lucky day because of the Power Loader Exoskeleton. A Japanese company called Activeink (which is a Panasonic subsidiary) has created…13. Senior Cyborgs - Douglas Kalberg Gives Us a Glimpse into the Future (GALLERY)  An art student from Sweden, Douglas Kalberg, gives us a look at what our great-great-grandchildren will look like once they are old. Featured in his “Hand Drawn Images" gallery, the photo is one of many…14. Picturesque Robot Paintings - Brian Despain Art Shows Robots Living Life to the Fullest (GALLERY) Roq La Rue Gallery is now showing this Brian Despain art, featuring robots in some unusual circumstances. They’re experiencing the world one situation at a time, from swimming with fish to chatting with…15. Robotic Bees - Harvard Researchers Get $10 Million to Create Robobees  The National Science Foundation has awarded Harvard researchers $10 million to create a coordinated colony of robotic bees. The project is named Robobees. On the plus side, the robotic bees won’t be able… |
Popular Last Month1. 95 Reality Alternatives - Living Our Lives Through Alterations and Surrogates (CLUSTER)  The movie, Surrogates is set in a futuristic world where humans live isolated from one another and interact through cyber-connected surrogate robots. It’s full of adept observations and social commentary,…2. 22 Steampunk & Cyborg Insects - From Remote-Controlled Beetles to Steampunk Bees (CLUSTER)  This slideshow of cyborg insects and steampunk bugs proves how fascinated we are with remixing nature, especially creepy crawlies. From DARPA-sponsored military spy bugs to immaculate insects created out…3. Cyborg Insects - UC Berkeley Houses Remote Controlled Live Beetles (UPDATE) (VIDEO)  Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have managed to control the movement of beetles. They have done this by connecting small radio antenna to electrodes and shocking the beetles nervous…4. Motorized Unicycles - The Honda U3-X Unicycle Is a Sit-down Segway (VIDEO)  You’d think a unicycle would have only one wheel--hence the name ‘unicycle’--but not so with the Honda U3-X. The super sleek, futuristic ride takes unicycling to a whole new level by combing multiple wheels…5. 16 Robotic Exoskeletons - From Subaquatic Exosketetons to Robotic Legs (CLUSTER)  The advancement of robotics and technology, overall, has allowed the geek in us embrace what has seemed (until recently) to only exist in underground scientific experiments and Japanese anime: robotic…6. Robo-Masons - The R-O-B Robot Builds Walls (GALLERY)  This gorgeous wall was actually built by a robot named R-O-B. Designed by Swiss architects Gramazio and Kohler, R-O-B is set to build another wall in New York later this month.
Over a period of four…7. Domestic Metal Smashers - Recycle from Home with the Automatic Aluminum Can Crusher (VIDEO)  With the Automatic Aluminum Can Crusher designed by Doug Wehrly for Zertronix, you can now recycle metal from the comfort of your own home.
Battery operated and small enough to store on any garage shelf,…8. Real Childhood Monsters - Robot Dixie is an Epic Mix of Childhood Toys by Brian Lee (GALLERY)  You'd better be nice to artist Brian Lee or else he’ll sic ‘Robot Dixie’ after you. His monstrous eight-foot-tall creation is made of what children dream of—quite literally. A piano, Barbies, Tonka truck…9. Never-Ending Drawing Machines - The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus Can Go On Forever (VIDEO)  The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus is a drawing machine that illustrates a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings and is the brainchild of Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus.
The perpetual…10. 11 Tributes to R2-D2 - From Sci-Fi Knitting to Disco Dancing (CLUSTER)  The little bleeping sounds from Luke Skywalker’s adorable robot will always be recognizable to our generation. This collection of tributes to R2-D2 include home entertainment systems, trash cans, mailboxes…11. Freakishly Human Automatons - Skeletal ECCEROBOT Moves Just Like Humans (VIDEO)  A team of scientists from five european countries are rapidly changing science fiction into science fact. Their mission: To design the first anthropomimetic (what a mouthful) robot. ECCEROBOT (Embodied…12. Robot Orphanages - Adoptabots Made from Salvaged Material Wait for New Homes (GALLERY)  If you’re in the market for something to love but not quite ready for a child or pet, consider picking up some Adoptabots from designer Brian Marshall’s robot orphanage.
Using old parts and salvage from…13. Autonomous Robotic Wheels - The Carrier Wheelchair Ensures User is Completely Independent (GALLERY)  A new wave of robotic wheelchairs is taking over the traditional wheelchair scene, and the Carrier Wheelchair is set to be at the top of this robo-chair craze.
Effective for traveling over any terrain…14. Robot Pool Sharks - Deep Green Mathematically Masters Billiards (VIDEO)  Deep Green is a pool playing robot from Queens, New York. With a microchip on his shoulder and dreams no one can reprogram, this billiard ‘bot will take your money, find the square root of the winnings…15. Soccer Robot Fails - Hajime Sakamoto Puts a Ball in Front of a Robot & Hits the Walk Button (VIDEO)  Created by Hajime Sakamoto, Hajime 33 is a robot that is said to play soccer. I clicked on, enticed by the promise of said Beckham-Bot-blistering free kicks, but was instead introduced to a nonathletic,… |
