Toshiba’s ApriPoco robot is a cute universal remote

If you’ve become hostage to a clutch of remote controls in your living room, never quite sure what all the buttons do and confusing different controllers for different gadgets, then Toshiba might have the answer. It’s developed a prototype robot that can act as a voice gateway to just about…

DASH: Resilient High-Speed 16-gram Hexapedal Robot

DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod) is a resilient high-speed 16-gram hexapedal robot. Developed by P. Birkmeyer & RS Fearing, Biomimetic Millisystems Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Video presented at IEEE IROS 2009. Read more robot news at spectrum.ieee.org

Beyond Human: Can a Robot Be a Person?

Part 7 of 9. As robots begin to move among us, how will we regard them: as property like automobiles, or as individuals with rights and responsibilities? Can a thing be a person?

Wow Wee 10 New Robots and Reem B Human Robot

Juguetronica wowwee 10 New Robots and Reem B Human Robot 科学と技術科学と技術Science et technologie 科學與技術Scienze e tecnologie 과학& 기술Ciencia & Tecnología Wetenschap en technologie Nauka i techn www.youtube.com

Hexapod Robot CNC Router

Just a bit of fun.. Using BF Hexapod as a pen plotter. DXF files are converted to translation moves and fed to the hexapod in sequence. The idea is to replace the pen with a small routing head, and then try to cut something! Routing resolution is pretty low, but…

Visual SLAM of Robot Vacuum Cleaner (Samsung Hauzen RE70V)

CV-SLAM (Ceiling-Vision based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)

Make a Reprap Robot Part 1

Get started making a self replicating robot with the electronics. … makezine howto diy instructions bre pettis reprap make electronics gadgets oreilly science technology how-to art

Our Robot Future – Rodney Brooks

Complete video at: fora.tv Rodney Brooks, former iRobot CTO, describes the limitations of today’s “stiff” factory robots. Looking forward, Brooks envisions a future where people interact with robots in the same way we now work with computers. —– Heartland Robotics Chairman and CTO Rodney Brooks asks: What will it take…