Don't deny it -- you blush a little each time you see that image above. If you're secretly eager to learn all that you can about Femisapien and her gracious ways, Robots Rule has the goods.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.06.18 at 07:12
Well, do they? It’s something to seriously ponder. Also ponderable: what’s an electric carrot, and would this bot know how to grow one?
For some reason, I’m not sure I want to know what’s going to come out of that egg.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.06.18 at 02:25
Hide your kids, iRobot just got that ChemBot contract DARPA was shopping around last year, which means that before we know it, sentient bots will be oozing through keyholes and making really bad movies without regard for human life or decency.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.06.17 at 11:41
I don’t know about you, but here at BotJunkie, this past weekend was all about RoboGames. Okay, and maybe one or two other things. But still… If for some reason you couldn’t make it to San Francisco, you totally missed out on the 504 (!) robots competing in 58 different events.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.06.17 at 06:54
We've seen plenty of robots that attempt to display emotions, but none quite like this Pomi penguin bot developed by Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, which can emit two unspecified smells in addition to employing some more common means of letting you know how it feels.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.06.13 at 16:12
My post this week about robot helicopters rounding up cattle featured a picture of an autonomous helicopter under development by Northrop Grumman called Fire Scout, which was rumored to be heading into active military service sometime this year.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.06.13 at 02:00
Most of the time, it’s a bit frustrating to write about nanobots. We have to talk about them in the context of teeny tiny little scales that you can’t really identify with… 250 microns long? What does that even MEAN? CMU’s nanobots are barely, just barely, large enough to identify with.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.06.12 at 23:48
Robots do all sorts of things, but climbing walls seems to be a goal engineers can't live without. Meet the Waalbot which is fitted with gecko-like micro fiber feet that can sick to vertical and even ceiling surfaces.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.06.12 at 15:18
There's something that makes us a bit uncomfortable about a robot that sports a "glamorous body," walks like a lady, and offers up some serious snogging.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.06.12 at 09:22
Robotics have come a long way, but they still often miss that innate, nervous sense of reluctant touch. Intel researchers have achieved something similar with a robotic hand that uses electrolocation to create a robotic hand conform to the shape of an object before interacting with it.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.06.12 at 08:52