In Japan, home robots aren’t in every home, but there’s plenty of them in development. The one big difference between them and this ‘bot, designated THKR-4, is that this one was designed with just off-the-shelf parts.This THKR-4 robot is able to serve at the party better than R2-D2 when he has forced to serve on Jabba the Hutt’s Sail Barge.
Recently, BBC found that some their remote-controlled, robotic cameras has been destroyed. And guess who? It’s a polar bear! How funny, isn’t it? To explore the life of the polar bears they installed the spy-cameras.
EMILY (Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard) rescue buoy is manufactured by an Arizona base company called Hydronalix.The remote controlled rescue buoy has the capability of 518 minutes of patrol at 5mph, the rechargeable battery is withstand up to 577 watt/hours, at Sleep Mode, you could reserved the EMILY rescue buoy’s battery power more than hundred hours. The EMILY weighing 25 pounds and the rescue craft has a dimension of 54x16x8-inch (LxWxH).
Modern humanoid robots are able to run, somersault and even dance – now comes a robot that walks like a senior citizen. It leans on objects in its environment for support to help it move around and complete tasks.Newscientist published an article last week about HRP-2, a robot unveiled this month during the Humanoids2010 conference in Nashville. Sébastien Lengagne of Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, along with a team of french and japanese scientists, developed a program that allows the HRP-2 to use objects in his environment to help his movements, rather than simply considering them as obstacles.
The Dalu Rebot Restaurant in Jiang, China, is an innovative, yet strange, development in the realm of cuisine. This particularly peculiar eatery is ran entirely by robots. With two robot receptionists and a full robotic wait staff, the Dalu Rebot Restaurant is a great place to grab a bite and get closer to your future.
Kinect’s 3D sensor is so cheap and effective that it’s getting bolted onto any robot that moves, and quadrotors are just the latest victims. UC Berkeley’s quadrotor is using the Kinect for autonomous flight and dynamic obstacle avoidance, and as long as you don’t come at it from behind, it works great.
Pentax has unveiled a special edition paint job for new limited edition K-r dslr cameras,with a bright, multi-colored body and a robotic head that fits into the flash hot shoe.This limited edition (just 100 units will be produced) was designed by Tokyo-based creative agency ZariganiWorks [JP]. Pentax also throws in a small robot figure and this 35mm lens.
Outfit7 Ltd. has released Talking Roby the Robot 1.0, their second free “talking” app for iOS. Roby is a talking, hip-hop dancing robot, who is able to speak words and sentences that the user types on his/her keyboard. He can also repeat anything the user says into the device with a unique robo voice. Talking Roby the Robot is different from other talking apps because it features text to speech in addition to speech detection. It features funny animations of Roby’s reactions, and more.Talking Roby the Robot 1.0 is a Free app both on iPhone and iPad with an optional in app purchase of 3 additional animations plus no ads for $0.99 (iPhone) and $2.99 (iPad).