A Rubble Hellscape With Screaming, Wriggling Dolls
The RoboCup soccer tourney gets all the publicity, but the RoboCup Rescue competition kicking off this week in Germany is thrilling in a more macabre way: Each year the rubble-strewn maze gets more and more complicated, as robots use AI and all their ...
Honda’s Assisted Walking Device Makes Grandma Strut Like Asimo
Honda has developed a gadget that they say could make walking easier for the elderly and others with weak leg muscles. The aptly named Walking Assist Device is a 6 lb. motorized belt with hip sensors that gauge how much help the wearer will need. The ...
Auto Healther Does Complete Body Massage, Robotically
Remember the massage pants? Well, automated massage seems to have taken a step further on from those with the Dainichi Auto Healther Reiz DZ-270: it’s a robo-table that can massage you from your head to to toe. You just select your program from ...
WeRobot Shirt Pays Homage To Our Robotic Overlord Celebrities
How many times have you been walking around SoHo when you spot a robot celebrity trying to play it cool? You tap him on the shoulder and are like, “You’re the Robot from Lost in Space!” And then he turns around and…how embarras...
uBOT-5 Makes Life Alert Look Like Crap
You’re old, weak and your bastard kids want to put you in a home. The uBOT-5 could one day offer a solution that could help you maintain your independence without having to resort to depressing nursing homes or lame Life Alert badges. Thanks to ...
Rent Your Own HAL Exoskeleton For The Low, Low Price of $1000!
Are you a feeble, pasty pansy? For the low price of $1000 a month, you could overcome your physical limitations with a HAL exoskeleton from Cyberdyne. While HAL prototypes have been around for a few years now, Cyberdyne has just begun building a lab t...
Robotic Hand May Be Tiny, Has Strong Grip
Scientists have developed a pair of robotic hands that are both strong and sensitive. The tweezers can guide themselves to pick up and move individual cells without damaging them, and have a grip that can be as slight as 20 nanoNewtons of force. In fa...