Posts Tagged ‘robotic’

Absolut Machines: Online Quarter and Choir

Thursday, February 21, 2008 18:15 No Comments

The Absolut Machines Project is probably the most original things that I have came across lately in the Internet. It is a collaboration between ABSOLUT VODKA, and graduates from the MIT (Dan Paluska, Jeff Lieberman) and the Swedish Studio Teenage Engineering. This project consists of two parts, the Absolut Quarter and the Absolut Choir, [...]

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Sega Animals

Monday, January 21, 2008 7:00 No Comments

Sega is presenting these days at a toy exhibition in Tokyo their new line of robotic Animals. Dogs, cats, parrots even owls, with enough technology inside to keep you and your family entertained for a long time.
Their advantages? They don’t need to be fed, they do not shed hear, they do not get sick and [...]

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Retirement age can now be increased by goverments

Sunday, January 13, 2008 14:06 No Comments

 

Apparently in Japan they cannot stand watching 70 and 80 year olds do heavy work. So the research team of Professor Shigeki Toyama, from Tokio University, created a robotic uniform that increases the muscle power of the person who is wearing it.
The uniform is made form a complicated system of sensors that “read” the muscle [...]

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