AFP – Robots that teach Chinese, computers controlled by moving the eyes and flying alarm clocks were among the weird and wonderful gadgets wowing crowds Wednesday at the world’s top high-tech fair.
Aside from the fact that it can sense whether you’re flatlined, this device can diagnose something as simple as sleep disorders or be used by developing robots assistants to read the brainwaves of the elderly and disabled.
Peratech is developing artificial skin for robots at MIT. The robo-hide will be able to detect where a robot has been touched and how hard. So think before slapping.
Cocktail-making robots serve up tasty beverages in a very unique way at a San Francisco bar as part of a lead-up to the RoboGames being held later this spring. Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge
University of Arizona engineering student creates a six-legged Atom-powered bot that can “learn” to walk on its own, and Intel brings it along on the company road show.
Sneaky intelligent machines have convinced industry players to put on a National Robotics Week in April. The purpose is to show that robots can “make life easier.”
Scientists in Europe have described experiments in which robots evolve through natural selection, learning to cooperate, hunt, and even be altruistic.
Concerned about animal cruelty, the animal rights group wants to replace the weather-forecasting Punxsutawney Phil with an animatronic version.
This week we met a life-size, artificially intelligent, and fully functional sex robot billed as the first of its kind. And it made some of us wonder what it would be like to finally date an artificial lady programmed to make us feel good.
The bride’s sister is “into robots,” we’re told, and decided to built the flower-blowing bot for her sister’s wedding.
