Posts Tagged ‘robot’
POMI: The Penguin Robot That Feels, Hears, Sees And Smells
Saturday, June 14, 2008 23:38 No CommentsIt can hear you, it can see you, it can feel you and it can smell you and its all made with nuts and bolts. The POMI (Penguin rObot for Multimodal Interaction) is a penguin shaped robot designed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, and it kind of looks to silly, but [...]
Perfect Woman Is Not A Robot, Is A Philips Nivea Viral
Friday, June 13, 2008 10:18 No CommentsAnother viral hits the road, this time the perferct woman, a suppose to be the first woman robot for the masses by AI robotics. After may days of counting and waiting for today for the robot shop to open, we see that perfect-woman com is finally a Nivea Philips viral :
Robot Makes A Cheese’n'Ham Omelette
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 8:18 1 CommentThe Chief Cook Robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating
cheese.
Chief Cook Robot is a robot model that progressively learns to generalize the skill to various situations with the help of an instructor.
As you will see in the following video, the omelette is not something that you would like to [...]
Urinal Cleaning Robot From Japan
Saturday, May 3, 2008 17:15 No CommentsThey must have something with robots in Japan. They are making robots do almost anything these days. The latest contraption is an elephantine e’pissoir. A robot designed to clean urinals in places like airports rest areas and other public toilets. it is supposed to be ecological in the sense that is saves a lot of [...]
The First Robot In A Movie
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 0:20 No CommentsHarry Houdini had conquered the world with his magic tricks but what is less known is that he also tried to try his luck with the silent movies. He starred in many movies with a common theme "supernatural powers". A DVD box that will come out in a few days presents a trailer where you [...]
Robotic Snakes
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 15:31 No CommentsCarnegie Mellon University is running a project for the design of robotic snakes.
These are robots that can imitate a snakes movements and has the ability to reach in places where a human as well as other robotic systems cannot. Its quite impressive to consider that these are quite adaptable to their environment.
Till now they have [...]