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Archive for the ‘Robots’ Category

October 1st, 2005

Sony Aibo Can Blog

Is this the end of humans ? Even Sony’s new AIBO can do blogging apart from reading the news from RSS feeds. Now that’s cool. I don’t need my wife to do that anymore. (just joking)
Sony’s robotic pup Aibo gives new meaning to the term newshound. In its latest evolution Aibo ERS-7M3/T has the ability […]

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September 26th, 2005

MANOI The Robot uses Kondo KHR-1 engine

Dude ! If all robots came in this type of cool shelling, I’ll gladly shell out 1100 Euros by skipping 100 lunches. Thing is… I’ve got a car and house loan to settle and robots are out of my budget right now. I’ll call the Japanese KYOSHO company to see if we can get […]

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September 12th, 2005

Papero Your Nutritionist Robot

By John,
Guest Blogger

Want to shape up your body and a live a healthy life?
Get the Papero as your nutritionist. It will tell you the value of your salad and the best nutrition for your daily needs. It’ll certainly not recommend you to bite into the “Roti Canai” (Papero: “too much of FAT”) and “Teh […]

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September 9th, 2005

Kurt the Tattoo Robot

By John,
Guest Blogger

It could be more accurate way of picture tattoo-ing, but when you are in a sticky situation, the robot could just continue its job without “listening” when you’re scream for… pain!!
Kurt the tattoo-robot is attached to a person’s arm, then uses a tattoo gun with 4 needles and Chinese tattoo ink to […]

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August 6th, 2005

Orazio Vacumn Robot

Yes. The robots have invaded our houses again. We had the robot lawn mower, robot vacumn cleaner and now the 13kg Orazio that even polishes the floors ! That’s life. No need for irritating Indonesian maids in the house.
At the press of a single button, Orazio vacuums, cleans and polishes floors of […]

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July 12th, 2005

Takara Robot Turtles

Micro robots. Seems cool. Seen any nano robots around ?

Here’s another leap in robot technology, but on a micro-scale. Takara has developed “Walkie bits,” miniature robotic turtles, which at only 5 centimeters in length and weighing under 15 grams, are certainly among the smallest programmable robots ever mass produced. They can walk, trot, race and […]

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June 29th, 2005

Speecys-FC Robot using Fuel Cells

This is news that’s sure to please robot lovers. Apart from waiting for the new Transformers movie, you will now be able to power up your robot using fuel cells. Very innovative indeed.

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June 10th, 2005

Skin for Robots

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is working on a sensor-embedded skin for robots that will include more than 1,000 infrared sensors that would detect an object, and send the information to the robots software.
The scientist behind the project, Vladimir Lumelsky says: “Robots should be able to react, but today’s robots can’t. That’s the difference and […]

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June 6th, 2005

Micro Star (MSI) E2R-H3 Robot

Models display E2R-H3, a robot developed by the Taiwanese company Micro Star International (popularly known as MSI) , during the opening day of the Computex show, Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in Taipei, Taiwan. The 2.1 kilogram (4.6 pounds) robot is claimed by its creator to be the smallest humanoid robot in the world with […]

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