iPet Companion: tele-play with their pets
Posted by admin in Computers, Electronics, Robots on 10. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
If you own a dog or a cat and are having a hard day at work, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to take a break and play with them? Well, if you’ve got the money, now you can do it – via the internet. A consumer version of a system already in use [...]
Microbots spin molecules to swim through blood vessels and make repairs
Posted by admin in Hi-tech, Medicine on 13. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
A lopsided self-propelled micromotor could drive itself through blood vessels, making repairs or delivering drugs along the route, according to researchers at Penn State. The small particles leach out a trail of material, like a microspider spinning a thread. The motors turn on, as it were, when one side of a Janus microsphere grows a [...]
‘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, [...]
2020: a look forward to the promises of a truly amazing year
Posted by admin in Future on 28. Apr, 2011 | 1 Comment
Get ready for the first complete synthetic human brain, moon mining, and much more Future Cities! In the year 2020, cars will fly, cities will power themselves with sunlight, biofuels, and minerals mined from the moon, computers will be more powerful than the human brain, and everything will be a touchscreen! Perhaps. Robotic moon bases, [...]
