• Top Transformers Toys for 2011

    Updated: 2011-07-31 17:01:31
    Top Toys About Privacy Toys Reviewed Disclosure Best Toys 2011 Halloween Costumes Toys By Age For Boys 0 baby boys 1 Year Old Boys 2 Year Old Boys 3 Year Old Boys 4 Year Old Boys 5 Year Old Boys 8 Year Old Boys 6 Year Old Boys 7 Year Old Boys 9 Year Old Boys 10 Year Old Boys For Girls 0 Baby Girls 1 Year Old Girls 2 Year Old Girls 3 Year Old Girls 5 Year Old Girls 8 Year Old Girls 4 Year Old Girls 6 Year Old Girls 7 Year Old Girls 8 Year Old Girls 10 Year Old Girls Holidays Halloween Halloween Costumes Thanksgiving Black Friday Cyber Monday Games Board Games Card Games Spiderman Games Tile Games Video Games Nintendo Wii Word Games Toy Brands Fisher Price American Girl Baby Einstein Disney Giantmicrobes Hot Wheels JAKKS Pacific Mattel My Pillow Pets Nerf Types of Toys Classic Toys Dolls

  • Pool-Playing Robot

    Updated: 2011-07-31 01:06:47
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Pool-Playing Robot Posted 31 Jul 2011 at 00:06 UTC by The Swirling Brain New Scientist reveals a Pool-Playing Robot made at the Technical University in Munich , Germany . A camera above the pool table looks down at the table and evaluates the best shot . Then , two robotic arms control a cue stick to sink a ball . The robot has an 80 success rate in getting the ball to the pocket . The device also can help a human learn to sink a ball by projecting suggested direction lines directly onto the table . All it needs now is a voice box to garbage talk and do the . hustle Robot of the Day VEGA Built by Hélio Fernandes Vieira Recent blogs 19 Jul 2011 Mubot Master 18 Jul 2011 spirit Journeyer 16

  • Top Star Wars Action Figures 2011

    Updated: 2011-07-30 18:40:40
    Top Toys About Privacy Toys Reviewed Disclosure Best Toys 2011 Halloween Costumes Toys By Age For Boys 0 baby boys 1 Year Old Boys 2 Year Old Boys 3 Year Old Boys 4 Year Old Boys 5 Year Old Boys 8 Year Old Boys 6 Year Old Boys 7 Year Old Boys 9 Year Old Boys 10 Year Old Boys For Girls 0 Baby Girls 1 Year Old Girls 2 Year Old Girls 3 Year Old Girls 5 Year Old Girls 8 Year Old Girls 4 Year Old Girls 6 Year Old Girls 7 Year Old Girls 8 Year Old Girls 10 Year Old Girls Holidays Halloween Halloween Costumes Thanksgiving Black Friday Cyber Monday Games Board Games Card Games Spiderman Games Tile Games Video Games Nintendo Wii Word Games Toy Brands Fisher Price American Girl Baby Einstein Disney Giantmicrobes Hot Wheels JAKKS Pacific Mattel My Pillow Pets Nerf Types of Toys Classic Toys Dolls

  • Top Building Toys for Boys 6 to 8 Years Old

    Updated: 2011-07-30 14:52:01
    Top Toys About Privacy Toys Reviewed Disclosure Best Toys 2011 Halloween Costumes Toys By Age For Boys 0 baby boys 1 Year Old Boys 2 Year Old Boys 3 Year Old Boys 4 Year Old Boys 5 Year Old Boys 8 Year Old Boys 6 Year Old Boys 7 Year Old Boys 9 Year Old Boys 10 Year Old Boys For Girls 0 Baby Girls 1 Year Old Girls 2 Year Old Girls 3 Year Old Girls 5 Year Old Girls 8 Year Old Girls 4 Year Old Girls 6 Year Old Girls 7 Year Old Girls 8 Year Old Girls 10 Year Old Girls Holidays Halloween Halloween Costumes Thanksgiving Black Friday Cyber Monday Games Board Games Card Games Spiderman Games Tile Games Video Games Nintendo Wii Word Games Toy Brands Fisher Price American Girl Baby Einstein Disney Giantmicrobes Hot Wheels JAKKS Pacific Mattel My Pillow Pets Nerf Types of Toys Classic Toys Dolls

  • National Geographic Takes a Look at Robots

    Updated: 2011-07-27 00:38:59
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account National Geographic Takes a Look at Robots Posted 26 Jul 2011 at 23:38 UTC by steve National Geographic has a new article on robots that takes a look at efforts to make robots more human . As always National Geographic includes lots of cool photos The article covers a range of robots you've probably heard about before including Actroids , HERB , CMU's Snackbot , Geminoid DK , Elfoid , Robovie , and others . The photo gallery even includes a shot of Hanson Robotic's Bina android , which you may remember seeing under construction when we visited David's lab a while back . These robots are all involved in research to solve some of the basic problems of social interaction with : humans Humans

  • First Robot Film Festival a Raging Success

    Updated: 2011-07-26 18:03:40
    The Robot Film Festival, first mentioned here nearly three months ago, took place over the weekend of July 16th & 17th, concluding with an awards ceremony. Despite the relatively short time between the announcement of the event and the deadline for submissions, there were 74 entries, of which 52 were accepted. Of these, 34, those submitted via Vimeo, appear here. There is also a playlist of videos submitted via YouTube, and a list of videos submitted by other means, posted by festival co-sponsor BeatBots. Automaton has collected together embedded videos of Botsker Award winners and a few of their favorites.

  • To Fight This Robot, Strong Enough, You Are Not… or Maybe You Are

    Updated: 2011-07-22 21:04:50
    Jedi Bot is a robot arm wielding a foam “lightsaber” that will try to attack or defend itself from human opponents. This system used the Kinect in order to track its opponent and was put together by students from Stanford. Of course, this is not the first robot wielding a lightsaber, but it is certainly the first that can interactively fight a human. The video below shows the robot it action. At the moment the robot is pretty [...]

  • Robots: Demining and Defusing

    Updated: 2011-07-20 00:11:37
    In this new episode we speak with Frédéric Guerne, director of Digger DTR, and with Paul Bosscher, chief robotics engineer at Harris Corp., about robots which assist us in demining land-mine fields and defusing IEDs. To learn more about the challenges of such a difficult task read on or tune in!

  • Robots for Humanity, PR2 Helps Humans in Need

    Updated: 2011-07-19 19:27:25
    PR2 from Willow Garage is now able to help people with disabilities to perform everyday tasks such as manipulating objects shaving and more. The video below illustrates the scope and the results of the Robots for Humanity project that Willow Garage, the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech, and Henry and Jane Evans are pioneering. Via Willow Garage. Related Posts:Willow Garage [...]

  • Robot Jedi Killing Machine

    Updated: 2011-07-18 19:50:00
    Students at Stanford University have programmed a robotic arm to wield a foam lightsaber in deadly fashion. JediBot uses motion sensors from Microsoft's Kinect system to locate the opponents green lightsaber and respond with both defensive and offensive moves.

  • Robots for Humanity

    Updated: 2011-07-14 20:11:52
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Robots for Humanity Posted 14 Jul 2011 at 19:11 UTC by steve Our friends at Willow Garage wrote to tell us about their latest initiative , called Robots for Humanity . This project is being done jointly with the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech Here's the : scoop the initiative revolves around Henry and Jane Evans . Henry Evans is a mute quadriplegic , having suffered a stroke 10 years ago . His movements are limited to the use of a single finger and slight movement of his head . With just this , he is able to operate a computer . Last year , Henry caught a TV interview of Georgia Tech Professor Charlie Kemp showing research with the Willow Garage PR2 robot . Willow Garage and

  • Robots Cannot Eat Hamburgers… Yet

    Updated: 2011-07-13 20:02:32
    Hardee’s, the fast food restaurant chain, released some rather funny anti-robot adds, that you can see below in a regular and extended version. The extended version below has more LASERs! The premise of the commercial is that if a robot can not eat or use a product, then it should not make it. Although we know this is [...]

  • Random Robot Roundup

    Updated: 2011-07-08 17:14:16
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Random Robot Roundup Posted 8 Jul 2011 at 16:14 UTC by steve Nina Vir writes , I am currently working on a project called Love Hacking a short documentary which follows the story of Tim Heath , a robot inventor who falls in love over the Internet and journeys to Nepal to meet his fiance for the first . time There's also a Love Hacking Facebook page Another robot-related documentary that we've talked about before is BOTS High , about high school students competing in the remote controlled vehicle destruction matches of BattleBots . Joey Daoud , the producer , wrote to let us know that a free , worldwide screening of the film is planned for 6 October . And , staying with the topic of robot

  • AutoWed, the Wedding Vending Machine

    Updated: 2011-07-05 15:14:59
    We reported on robotic weddings before, but this time we are announcing a much more elegant, charming and definitely cheaper / faster way of getting married. Ok, it might not be all that fancier, but at least it’s pink. In our fast-paced lifestyle, getting married can be seen as a daunting and time consuming activity that is difficult to [...]

  • Robots Podcast #81: Newton Howard, Mind Machine Project

    Updated: 2011-07-04 21:02:48
    In Episode #81, released July 1st, Robots Podcast interviews Newton Howard, director of MIT's Mind Machine Project. From the Mind Machine Project website: The high-level goal of the Mind Machine project is to reconcile natural intelligence with machine intelligence, and in doing so develop and engineer a class of intelligent machines. The content of the interview ranges from mistakes made in the field of AI up to date, smart materials, the importance of understanding the brain to recreate intelligence, to hopes that this understanding will lead to breakthroughs in the medical field.Read On or Tune In

  • We Love Quadrotors, Even When They Fail

    Updated: 2011-07-04 20:43:03
    In previous posts, we reported on the aggressive quad-rotors from the University of Pennsylvania which are capable of doing amazing things quite effortlessly. Achieving such impressive results required  a lot of hard work,  testing and trial-and-error. The video below focuses on the “error” part. Enjoy the bloopers! In order to finish on a more “productive” note, [...]

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