Robotics

Get a load of your new rock God ladies! Robobust is quite the pimp. He loves music – so much so that he will move his mouth to anything placed in his MP3 player. He also has dancing skills. He can bust a few moves that are either pre-programmed or manually controlled. Robobust’s other interests include: fire. He enjoys spewing ...

The WD-2 robot is a work in progress to make a realistic human face using the power of robotics. As you can see, the robot can’t exactly fit on a body yet, considering the machinery is about three times larger than the actual head is. Though one day, the WD-2 could be used to make a robotic twin of yourself. ...

You might remember the very awkward CB2 Baby Humanoid bot we spoke so fondly of. Zeno, another child robot, is slightly less awkward looking than the good old CB2, but not much less. David Hanson designed this little fella’ and named it after his son. If your son actually looks like this, we have the greatest sympathy for you. The ...

The Airmagination Inflatable R/C Robot stands at a whopping 48″ tall – which would undoubtedly scare the hell out of pets, young children, and vertically challenged celebrities (Tom Cruise would piss his pants.) It can also be remotely controlled to move in all directions and speak a variety of prerecorded phrases in a robotic tone. Unless you have a pin ...

Thanks to this “food robot” designed by retired Beijing professor Liu Changfa, it seems entirely possible that one day I can have my Hot Pocket cooking ritual fully automated. Unfortunately, I would still have to push a few buttons with this one – users must program simple instructions into the robot’s computer before he begins to cook. Once the data ...

Mankind’s creepy obsession with building the perfect robot pet continues with Pretty Polly The Interactive Parrot. Polly features voice recognition technology that allows it to record and repeat phrases spoken to it. This robo-parrot can also respond to phrases like “Are you hungry” with preprogrammed answers. Other features include: A mouth sensor that detects an included plastic cracker placed near ...

The sentry gun pictured above was built for the Defconbots Competition where contestants battle it out to see who can build an autonomous device that can shoot down targets in the fastest time. The gun didn’t win, but by the looks of these videos, it seems to work pretty well. And the best part is that the team behind it ...

Thanks to a group of smart, entrepreneurial minded kids from Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix and their work for the National Underwater Robotics Challenge, you can now build your own underwater robot for $250. The ROV-in-a-Box Project Kit features just about everything you need to put together your own working robot: frame, motors, underwater light, camera, 50-foot tether, operator ...

Scientists in Spain have announced that their work on the EU funded SENSOPAC project has resulted in the world’s first artificial robot cerebellum. The scientists plan on incorporating the mechanical brain into a robot designed by the German Aerospace Centre in two years followed by a complete cognitive system within the next four years. The scientists hope that by giving ...

Brandishing an axe, Mainframe (a veritable Frankenstein of computer parts) is ready to get his hands dirty and whoop some ass the old fashioned way. Based on a character portrayed in a series of paintings by artist Dean Bradley, Mainframe’s original purpose was to symbolize “our delicate relationship with technology.” As a figurine, Mainframe is now a cool collectors item ...