Dear Paro,
My name is Evan, and I am a very influential and handsome robot blogger. I met you at CES last January and was very impressed with your warmness and softness and squishyness and general omgIwantone-ness.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.06 at 05:47
Gravity sucks. Gravity especially sucks when you’re trying to get into orbit. It sucks because vehicles like the space shuttle expend most of their energy just hauling along the fuel they need to make it into orbit, instead of something useful like more payload or myself.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.06 at 05:05
This robot (its name is CARL) may not look especially biological (aside from the adorable little ears), but inside, it’s thinking with a computerized model of a rodent brain and interacting with the world through a “biologically plausible nervous system.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.06 at 05:00
There aren’t a lot of details on this updated version of Samsung’s robot vacuum, but like the version from last year, it’s already convinced one charming lady to get in bed with it, and who am I to refrain posting pictures of this sordid affair:
She looks happy, doesn’t she? I’m sure the robot performed quite admirably and did an excellent job cleaning her- no, no, I’m just going to stop right there before this gets entirely out of hand.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.05 at 05:12
If you can’t justify buying yourself a humanoid robot to play with, ask yourself this question: what would you do if a little wooden doll was stuck at the end of an obstacle course? Huh? Yeah, that’s right, you’d just stare helplessly as it continued to be little and wooden.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.05 at 04:25
If I don’t write about robot movies as much as I could here on BotJunkie, it’s because we tend to focus on robots that either are real, or have at least some realistic potential.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.05 at 02:32
Nobody seems to know what exactly this is or if anything ever came of it, although the consensus is that it’s probably a dead concept. The two noses are kinda neat, though.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.04 at 06:21
“David Hanson’s robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an “emotional” live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.04 at 06:01
I love the inhuman speed of pick and place robots. We’ve seen a lot of incredible examples from ABB, but Adept Technology has just broken the “300 cycle per minute barrier” with their Quattro robot.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.03 at 02:37
Late nineties is fairly prehistoric when it comes to robots with fast reaction times. I mean, I was in high school in the late nineties! But while I was busy being a miserably outcast geek, Toshiba was demonstrating a robot that could (sort of) play volleyball.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.03 at 02:28