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Tag Archives: Robots
Need a hug? Feel your own with Sense-Roid HugBot
Crave companionship? Do you find yourself lacking in love and absent affection, or do you simply need a good hug? Finally, thanks to Japanese robotics engineers, a hug will always be at the ready with the Sense-Roid HugBot. Read more »
AutoWed. Importance of marriage reduced to some spare money and machine
Marriage. The formal definition of the practice is, “Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship.” Sounds so special, and it most certainly is, to some. Unfortunately, nearly 50 percent of all marriages in America end in divorce, and a new, coin-based, method of getting married, Concept Shed’s AutoWed Wedding Machine may result in those figures to rise even higher if the marriage method is made more official. Read more »
RoboButler. A super swift drink serving robot
Robots may soon become a part of our everyday lives. They have their own world wide web, are capable of cleaning our bathrooms, are becoming ever better at solving puzzles, and realistic robot babies with the possibility of having a solar-powered skin that can touch and feel exist already. If that wasn’t evidence of enough that robots are becoming omnipresent, Mechanical Engineering students at Delft university of Technology have developed a robot that can deliver drinks swiftly and without spilling a single drop. Read more »
New robot skin. Solar-powered and can sense touch
Robots have yet to best humans in solving a Rubik’s Cube, but they are making inroads concerning social media and are becoming more human-like everyday. Disconcerting to say the least. Read more »
Robots are no match for humans in Rubik’s Cube completion speed [Video]
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Rubik’s Cube. A puzzle created in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of Ernő Rubik. The multi-colored brick has been purchased more than 350 million times since its release, making it the world’s best-selling puzzle game and one of the world’s most popular toys. Read more »
Lingodroids: Robots That Invent Their Own Language
I am in the middle of reading the Ender’s Game series, and my mind has been full of thoughts of aliens, computer programs, and robots as sentient beings. One aspect that has always fascinated me is their means of communication. Language is such a wonderful thing – ever-changing and taking on so many different forms. Of course, we can think all we want about aliens and AI, but we don’t know if we will ever see them become reality in our lifetime. That is why work by people such as Ruth Schulz is so interesting. Schulz and her group of researchers from the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Read more »
Electronics made from human blood cells foretell cyborg future?
The world of robotics and biology are on a crash course which could soon find encountering a fellow human who is part cyborg. Seriously. Read more »
Hate cleaning the bathroom? Tell the robot to do it
Anyone with parents intent on providing a little discipline and structure in their children know the dreaded feeling of having to complete chores. Unfortunately as one grows older it hits you that chores never go away. Certainly there exist some that you don’t mind doing as much, vacuuming for instance, but there are others that some could do without. One of those has to be cleaning the bathroom. Read more »
Geeky Flowers
In honor of Spring’s arrival (up here in the northern hemisphere, anyway), here are ten of the geekiest flowers you’ll ever see. Read more »
