‘Lovotics’ engineers attempt to give robots the ability to love
Posted by admin in Robots on 01. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
You can’t buy love, but can you engineer it? A project at the National University of Singapore with all kinds of somewhat unsettling implications is trying to create the means for human-robot love by giving robots all the emotional and biological tools that human have. That means artificial hormones–dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin, endorphin–that ebb and flow [...]
Designer creates sweating robotic armpit
Posted by admin in Robots on 30. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
A London designer has created a sweating robotic armpit, intended to make it easier for humans to relate to robots When we think of robots, we tend to think of clean, antiseptic automatons that don’t suffer from yucky things like halitosis, flatulence or body odor … unlike us humans. According to London designer Kevin Grennan, [...]
Robotic Swiss Quadrocopters Hold Their Own At Tennis
Posted by admin in Robots on 29. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
A new event in the robolympics ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena hosted a quadrocopter tennis match, involving a human-robot volley, a doubles match and an impressive robot-to-robot juggling act. The robots were outfitted with tennis rackets, allowing them to fly toward the ball and return a human’s serve. Watch it below. Mark Müller, [...]
Japan’s New Goateed Geminoid Robot Is Uncomfortably Realistic
Posted by admin in Robots on 08. Mar, 2011 | 1 Comment
Geminoid, Skin On and Skin Off The latest Geminoid robot is one of the most realistic, and thus creepiest, android we’ve ever seen. The skin, hair, goatee (!), and facial expressions are real enough to fool you for a few seconds while it sinks in that something very, very weird is going on. This specific [...]
Swarms of Robot Soldiers Could Make Better Decisions Than Human Leaders on Data-Strewn Battlefields
Posted by admin in Future, Robots on 01. Dec, 2010 | 0 Comments
Robot Troops of the Future Robo-Soldier wants to execute (an efficient, well-calculated plan). Modern warfare relies increasingly on robotics for intelligence gathering and increasingly for strike capabilities, but the decision-making capacity still rests solely in the hands of human commanders. But British defense company BAE systems is testing a way to turn over battlefield decisions [...]
