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I Am Not Talking On A Human-Shaped Phone That Feels Like Skin

Japanese researchers at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International seem to think that making a humanoid-looking phone and covering it in a material that feels like skin will make us feel closer to whoever we’re talking to. Judging from that photo, I’d be seriously weirded out.

February 19, 2011
Science

Japan Sending Creepy, Tweeting Robot To Watch Astronauts While They Sleep

So you’re feeling a bit isolated on the International Space Station. The remedy? Probably not an unnerving humanoid robot Japan wants to send up – relaying messages via Twitter, and monitoring astronauts while they sleep. Recipe for insanity. [Boston Globe]

October 25, 2010

Man Builds Overly-Elaborate Humanoid Robot To Deal With His Wasp Problem

This is from Japan, so I can’t tell if the mohawk and quirky fashion sense are intentionally ironic or not (I kid, Japan, honest!), but I am sure that Professor Sekine here just built a robot to kill some bees.

March 8, 2010

Robot Pokemon: Kojiro Would Destroy Asimo With Muscoskeletal Jujitsu

Kojiro here is the work of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory. With his 60 degrees of motion, provided by a network of Super Effective! artificial muscles and tendons, he’ll utterly destroy Asimo in the inevitable slow-motion robot battle in their future.

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