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And you thought all that business about synthentic hands replacing real ones, viz Star Wars, was Hollywood trickery. Well, you thought wrong! It would appear that the Cyberhand Project is bringing a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, to the here-and-now. Each of the five fingers is arti…
I predict 2006 will be the year of the RoboOne robots. First, Hitec gets into the action with its RoboNova robots, and now Volks Inc. is selling their very slick "Robofie" robots. Just from looking at the movies, it would appear that the Robofie is a bit more dexterous than RoboNova (here are some …
You may have seen the new Manoi robot from Kyosho featured on Akihabara News or Engadget, the the thing that sruck me, was its uncanny likeness to Chroino, which made big waves at this year's RoboNexus 2005 conference (photos). Engadget claims they're built around the Kyosho KHR-1 robot body, but …
Fully transformable robot costumes. It made its way from BoingBoing to Engadget and then here. Be your favorite Transformer character next halloween and transform, while you're wearing it. Engadget says: Since 1993, Canadian aerospace worker De Repentigny has been creating one-of-a-kind, stri…
Wow, this really snuck up on me, but CEO Colin Angle and Chairman Helen Greiner rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ today. There were celebrating the offering of iRobot's stock, which is trading under the symbol "IRBT". Great going guys! It closed today at $26.70 after opening at $34.16 w…
Thanks to Robot Dreams and their Combat Robot Builders group, I now know about Frapper. Think of it as a mashup of Google Maps and Flickr. So, I created a "I Build Robots!" Frapper group. Go proclaim your love of robots with style! Let's get some good support here. Tell your friends. Tel…
A bit of bizzare news to break the radio silence (school is killing me). Via BoingBoing, "Tweety the Bird Rescued by Robot." "Tweety the cockatiel was stranded for two days after the building partially collapsed, undermined by a new tunnel." The bomb disposal robot used its rem…
... or, "How Robots are Freeing Slaves." Every once in a while you get a story that's both amazing and powerful. The story of how K-Team Robotics, a Swiss company, designed and built robot camel jockeys for Quatar, is one of those stories. You see, up until recently, small children …
For those of you knitters out there, here's a good homemade gift idea for your robot-loving pal/spouse/babysitter/etc. There's a gallery of the robots at the link in all sorts of poses appropriate to knitted robots. You can have your robot and sock-monkey duke it out. Monkies vs. robots. Ninjas vs…
There sure seems to be a lot of talk flying around about Daniel H. Wilson's book entitled, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion." When you see it both on Digg and Slashdot at the same time, you know there's a buzz going around. Wilson'…
It would appear that everyone's favorite dino-killer, the Velociraptor, isn't all he's cracked up to be. Instead of the disembowling-vicious-hunter, he's more like a attach-myself-to-the-victims-back-and-serate-him-to-death type killer. And all of this we know thanks to the loving help of robots. …
Continuing with their massive onslaught of robotic helpmeets for the elderly (can't forget Pero), a group from Osaka University has created a robotic jacket that will help stroke victims recover. Looking vaguely Metroid-esk (which came from Japan, BTW) the jacket reads the muscle movements from the…
The Consumer Electronic Association has listed robotics as a technology trend that is set to influence the next 12 months. Also on the list are content creation and obscenely large TV screens. Unusual, yes, I know. "A robotic future has long been talked about but so far has failed to deliver…
The great guys at Element Products Inc. sent me one of the Scribbler Robots they built for Parallax. I'm hoping to get a review of it up on the site in the next week or two. If I forget, remind me.
Robotics Trends, the industrie's new-found marking group (their website says, 'integrated media firm'), is sponsoring a "Robot TechZone" at CES 2006. For those living in a cave for the past long while, CES is the hottest electronics conference/expo in, well, pretty much anywhere. It's gre…
Well, I'm behind. Way behind. So, here's a some of the myriad of links that have come up in the past two weeks, that I just haven't had time to get up here. How about the Military's "pack animal" robot? Perhaps you can carry around your robot statue from an iPod box, while listeni…
