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Savagely Beating Mobile Phones Into Silent Mode: A Proposal

6:17AM January 14, 2010 | John Herrman

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs have developed a system of “whack gestures” that could allow any phone with an accelerometer to be silenced with a punch. This is brilliant. More »


Asimo Autonomously Navigates Moving Obstacle Course

3:00AM August 24, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Asimo, still licking its wounds after being outrun by Toyota, fired back earlier this month at Carnegie Mellon, where it learned how to navigate complex, moving obstacle courses. Seriously impressive stuff in this video—just wait until things start spinning! More »


The “First Real Robot For Girls” Is A Pink, Waddling Penguin

8:40AM July 10, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The adorable counterpart to Prime8, Penbo is supposedly the “first real robot for girls.” It uses the same locomotion tech derived from the buggy RHex robot, but cutified so it waddles: More »


Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot Runs On His Hands, Smashes Aibos To Bits

7:40AM July 10, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

What’s special about Bossa Nova’s Prime8 robot—a $US100 descendant of DARPA and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute’s $US20,000-a-pop all-terrain RHex designed for 10-year-old boys? It’s the first bipedal toy robot, and it is fast. Just watch. More »


Science

Step Aside, Multitouch and Haptics: This Touchscreen Has Buttons

7:28PM April 28, 2009 | John Herrman

A couple of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, apparently tired of this whole touchscreen vs. button debate, have decided to just do away with the distinction entirely.

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