Textspresso machine takes coffee orders through text message
Posted by admin in Design, Robots on 17. Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
A start-up in Seattle has created the ‘Textspresso,’ a coffee machine that accepts and prepares specialized coffee orders via text message and will soon also print directly onto the coffee’s top layer of cream. When Seattle-based start-up, Zipwhip, wanted to show off its new cloud texting platform, it needed a way to demonstrate just how [...]
Robotic guards will soon patrol South Korean prison
Posted by admin in Robots on 29. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
The possibility of robot workers raises a certain type of futurey allure combined with a sense of danger — in a variety of settings, they could help humans work better and faster, but they could also replace us, or worse, maim us. So how are we supposed to feel about the news of a new [...]
The Air Force’s ‘Micro-Aviary’ gives tiny flying robots a place to call home
Posted by admin in Robots on 04. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
The Air Force Research Lab has build a “Micro-Aviary” at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio where tiny flying robots will be the central focus. And aside from being drone-centric, it is one sweet sensor-filled laboratory. The Micro-Aviary will specialize in what the DoD has deemed the next generation of intelligence and military robot capabilities: tiny [...]
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 [...]
Creepy Japanese Expression-Mimicking Robot Hangs Out In Hospitals, "Comforting" Patients
Posted by admin in Robots on 28. Oct, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Actroid-F Doing Its Best To Approximate Human Expression As if being laid up in the hospital wasn’t traumatic enough already, imagine having a humanoid robot coming to visit you and eerily mimicking your facial expressions – its pink-sleeved arms resting primly in its lap, its hair pinned back with a bobby pin (as if [...]
