As we say goodbye to the 200x's and welcome the 201x's it's good to pause a bit and think about the world as it was ten years ago. There was no Wikipedia, no YouTube, internet access was still dialup for a huge portion of the population, and we didn't have a whole heap of really cool robots. To hig…
A new Japanese robotics magazine, Robot Life, has polled 500 Japanese females to ask them who was their favorite commercial robot. The grand winner was the PaPeRo robot, pictured at left, built by NEC. Also making the top 10 list (though, at a dismal 10th), is our friend Robonova. Wakamaru and Mano…
Previously I'd told all of you to go out, exercise your democratic right, and vote in Engadget's "Year's Best" elections. Well, whether you did or not (you better had ... ), the results are out! And the winner is, the Honda Asimo! The Engadget editors picked Stanford's VW Touareg "St…