Honda's revolutionary robot 'Asimo', one of the first humanoid robots to be able to walk on two legs, appears in this commercial for the company.
Japanese robotics engineers have created a robot that can with a fair degree of accuracy replicate a dancers movements. The dancing robot demonstrates how far bi-pedal robots have come in recent years, and the accuracy with which they can move in as similar a fashion to humans. It is no small feat to develop a robot that can shift its weight from one foot to another without falling over, let alone create one that can move with a great deal of grace and fluidity. Credited with being used to 'record' and then replay traditional dances that with time may otherwise be lost to history, this could become an interesting way to document spacial information, and then have it replayed back later. It could be applied not only to dance, but also to sport, saving the curling free kick of David Beckham, or the swing of Tiger Woods. Then the robot could beocme a teacher, complete with all the best moves in the industry. Not to be too distracted by the artisitic good intentions of its developers, the Guardian points out the often darker military reasons why such robots have been developed. So perhaps even if we are really not so far away from having humanoid robots on stage, it probably isn't long before they are patrolling the streets.
These guys at Essex Univercity have made a very realistic robot fish that is on show at the London aquarium.
This is footage of commercially available water robots, called Aquaroids. They were available in Japan in 2001, but I am struggling to find any to buy in Europe. If anyone knows please leave a comment, or write me. They were made by Takara (Tomy) in Japan.
This robot can do back flips - which is more than I can do! Mind you if you have the $1,200 to pay for the prebuilt kit, I would hope that it could! The kit is available from online store
The robot, called Robonova is created by Hitech Robotics, a family run robotics company in Korea.
They have video of their robots in action here.
I do not know if this model maker is responsible for the designs of the characters in the film Robots? They are amazing! Check theem out on his flickr account.
Thanks to Pete for this link!
This is a freaky video. The Hirose Fukushima Robotics lab have developed an amphibious snake-like robot named “ACM-R5” that can maneuver both on ground and in water surging its long body in such a realistic fashion. Seen on Trend Hunter.
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An intelligent rabbit computer toy that can read you news, tell you if you have received and SMS or email, tell you the weather for tomorrow...
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Can be bought from Pixmania for around €100
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