robotics

Monday, August 24, 2009
Robots

Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot Is A Real Care BEAR

5:00AM Jack Loftus | Sure, the BEAR robot is a bit terrifying to look at, but one day, after you discover the pipe bomb your estranged wife left in the mailbox, this automaton could very well save your life. More »
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Robots

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

8:40AM 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 »
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Robots

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

7:40AM 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 »
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