First Robot Prison Guards Activated
Back in November, South Korea announced that a project to create robot prison guards was underway. And just as predicted, the robo-guards are ready for their first tests. Check out video (complete with prisoner/robot More...
Blue-Color Robots are coming to Hospitals in the US and UK
Robots have already staked out a place in the health-care world—from surgical droids that can suture a wound better than the human hand to “nanobots” that can swim in the bloodstream. But the stage More...
Red License Plate Day
An extended campaign in Nevada by Google has led to a new host of provisions which will allow automated cars to legally drive in the state. Starting TODAY, March 1st, 2012 innovators like Google can officially apply More...
Robotic Prison Guards
Robots replacing human labor, English class teachers at South Korean elementary schools, and now – according to the Wall Street Journal – South Korean prison wardens will be replaced by robots too. More...
The Start of the Robot Apocalypse?
Whenever the military rolls out a new robot program, folks — including me — like to joke about SkyNet or the Rise of the Machines. But this time, the military really is starting to venture into robot-apocalypse More...
Elfoid: Meet the sinister humanoid mobile
Remember the Telenoid, the funky but eery humanoid bot that transmitted both the voice and the head movements of its operator? Imagine having that doll-like gadget in your pocket at all times. The Elfoid P1 is essentially More...
DARPA’s humanoid pal to be
Many people look at Star Trek as nothing more than entertainment. Science Fiction is treated, overall, in this manner. What very few seem to see is that it is all cautionary tales. Shelley’s Frankenstein is More...
Robonaut 2: The Beginning
In a world where the space shuttle program was in its last days… one robot answered the call to serve… persevered… and found that… just maybe… he had the right stuff too. Now… More...
DARPA’s Nano Hummingbird
If someone would ask me: “Who is the coolest guy at DARPA?” there’s no doubt I’ll point to the one assigning research budgets to the awesome ‘rise of the machines’ gadgets the More...
Teaching Baby-Robots How To Walk
You don’t need to be a parent to know there’s a learning curve for humans to understand how to stand up and walk. It’s simple; we start sliding flat on our bellies, develop this to expert crawling More...
Engkey: The Robot Teacher
Imagine yourself being a little kid stepping into a classroom for your first English class. You’re a little nervous cause all the other kids seem to be much bigger than you are. So you hold on tight to the More...
Drink This!
Vending machines have come a long way. Japanese customers can now rely on vending machines using facial recognition technology to suggest drinks if they can’t decide on what to buy. The new technology can make More...