The rumor mills are hard at work churning out speculation that Sony is going to kill it's robotics division. The fuel for this fire is an excerpt from Sony's Q305 fiscal reports that Akihabara News found. The text reads: New product development for AIBO has already ceased, and production is targe…
PeopleStaff, an employment agency in Japanese, is adding robots to its usual roster of people. PeopleStaff is recommending companies recruit Hello Kitty Robo and Ifbot. The positions are receptionists and hospital care, respectively. One wonders if the company is also considering a name change.
There's something extremely unnerving about the thought of a tiny robot (rc controlled) driving around the inside of my abdomen. It seems very akin to the robot that too up residence inside of Neo on The Matrix. Regardless, Dr. Dmitry Oleynikov and colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical …
The Autonomous Light Air Vehicles (ALAVs), built by Jed Berk and Nihil Mitter, are three helium inflated balloons that roam about their invironment and interact with each other and humans in a very life-like way. The blimps use a new technology from Sun Microsystems called SunSPOTS. The devices si…
If you are near the Museum of Science in Cambridge tonight around 7 PM, stop in for a unique concert. 'Invasion of Technology' is a show featuring a mixture of music and musicians. Playing a blend Western and Balinese, Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth will be jamming with machines Bot(i)Cello…
