Check out some of the bots at this year’s CES Tradeshow in Las Vegas while CNET’s Luke Westaway entertains us with several duels of man Vs machine
Robots Vs Humans !
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Category Archives: Asia
Meet the Mask-bot
it’s more than just a pretty face…
At first glance it’s a generic plastic mask fixed in front of a projector. Switch it on and you’re looking at the most realistic ¨talking head¨ yet. Researchers from the Institute of Cognitive Systems (ICS) at the Technische University in Munich have collaborated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan (AIST) to create a life-sized talking head, the Mask-bot.
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Welcome to a Robot-Lover's Paradise
Robot Land is scheduled to open in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea
South Korea’s got robots covered; from classrooms to the Northern border, the nation’s using robots to support humans just about anywhere. But their robots aren’t all work and no play; Robot Land’s creators aim to foster ¨robot culture¨ bringing its visitors
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"Thinking" Robots
We’ve been thinking about them for a while…
Hiro, a humanoid robot developed by professor Osamu Hasegawa at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been proclaimed a ¨world first¨for its ability to ¨learn¨from its environment and research relevant information on the web.
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Give Yourself a Hug…With the Help of a Robot
Watch a clip from Tokyo’s 3D Expo
Nobuhiro Takahashi and his team at the University of Electro Communications in Tokyo have created a huggable robot. The ¨Sense-Roid¨ is shaped like a human torso that is embedded with pressure sensors. The robot is capable of reciprocating a human’s hug with the help of air compressors by being connected to a jacket that is worn by the human user.
Robot Becomes Living Fossil
Evolving about 400,000 000 years ago, these guys hung out with dinosaurs!
Coelacanth robot used for education
In 2001, Mitsubishi began the production of an artificial Coelacanth, an ancient species believed to be extinct until the 1930′s.
The body of the artificial fish is partly made of silicone, plastic and elastic metal. The artificial fish achieves life-like movements through the use of an ¨elastic oscillating fin propulsion system,¨ technology originally developed for propeller-operated marine vehicles. It is fully automated and will swim to a recharging unit when its batteries run low!
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