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Robot hockey player: it shoots, it scores!

Posted February 14, 2012 - 11:05 am

It's February and it's cold, so let's watch a video of "the world's first autonomous humanoid robot ice hockey player."
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AT&T finds a SECOND Jim Henson robot film

Posted January 30, 2012 - 10:42 am

The folks at the AT&T Archives have uncovered another Jim Henson gem, a film that he made for the Bell Data Communications Seminar in 1963.
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AT&T unearths rare Jim Henson robot video

Posted January 23, 2012 - 4:36 pm

This is amazing - AT&T today released this 1963 film created for The Bell System by Muppet creator Jim Henson, featuring a robot that talks about how great machines are compared to human beings.
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Sundance film about a man and robot gets early buzz

Posted January 23, 2012 - 11:03 am

A film that's getting some significant buzz at the Sundance Film Festival is "Robot and Frank", a futuristic movie about a cranky old man and a caretaker robot.
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When the robots take over, at least our cats will be groomed

Posted January 5, 2012 - 11:52 am

Making the rounds on the robot video circuit is this gem, in which Taylor Veltrop shows off his robotics work, in which he controls a robot via a treadmill, Microsoft Kinect, Nintendo Wii remote (a Wiimote) to groom his cat.
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Even Robots love Christmas

Posted December 20, 2011 - 10:36 am

See, there is a softer side to robots - even they enjoy the holiday season. Enjoy this video, in which a bunch of robots light candles and play 8-bit Christmas music.
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Japanese spider robot can pick up 'prey' and carry them away

Posted December 14, 2011 - 10:14 am

I still have nightmares from the '80s film "Runaway", in which bad-guy Gene Simmons (minus the Kiss makeup) stalks good-guy cop Tom Selleck with a slew of spider-robots that can kill with their pincer arms.
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Robots get cuter, smarter and creepier

Posted December 1, 2011 - 3:10 pm

Two new robots that are learning lots of new things, like how to identify objects and themselves.
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Squishy robot wiggles into tight spaces

Posted November 29, 2011 - 2:33 pm

Harvard scientists helping out with the creation of robots that will destroy us all someday.
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Ladder-climbing robots means there's fewer places to hide

Posted November 28, 2011 - 12:07 pm

Whenever I joke about robots gaining more and more abilities in their eventual plan to destroy humanity, there's always the feeling that as long as the robots can't climb stairs, then humans can likely escape if things go wrong.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a dancing robot!

Posted November 24, 2011 - 6:06 am

While you're digesting your Thanksgiving dinner and watching the latest football games, do some more multi-tasking and check out this video from Peter Fankhauser during a recent TEDtalk (at TEDGlobal), in which he demonstrates Rezero, a robot that can balance itself on a ball.
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Scientists add robotics to animal costumes

Posted November 17, 2011 - 10:44 am

Every time I think that robotics are used for the betterment of mankind, I run into a video where Japanese scientists are doing something that's just a little bit creepy.
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Viral video week in review (Nov. 5 - 11)

Posted November 12, 2011 - 8:59 am

Looking back at some of the more entertaining videos in the world of sciene, tech and "geekery" this week, I noticed a lot of robots.
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Robot Rides a Bicycle

Posted November 11, 2011 - 10:42 am

From our friends in Japan, we end out the week of cool robot videos with a bipedal robot riding a bicycle, using only its arms to steer and make balance corrections.
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Honda's new ASIMO Robot even more awesome

Posted November 8, 2011 - 5:16 pm

It's robot week apparently! Here's new video of Honda's latest version of its ASIMO humanoid robot, which can run at 9 kph, hop on one or both legs, and do all sorts of amazing things. We've
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'Telexistence' robot transmits user's sight, hearing and touch

Posted November 7, 2011 - 1:01 pm

OK, forget about my Terminator rants for a moment. In this video, we meet a Telexistence Robot, which mimics the actions of a human being connected via virtual reality gear.
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More proof they're building Terminators

Posted November 7, 2011 - 11:21 am

Sometimes I feel like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 (no, get your mind out of the gutter). I mean, she keeps warning people about the Terminators that are coming from the future, yet most of humanity just looks at her like she's weird, or they lock her up in an asylum.
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Merging robots with Microsoft Surface for search/rescue tasks

Posted November 4, 2011 - 10:32 am

I joke a lot on this blog about how robots will eventually rule the world, but most of the robotics work going on today focuses on the great things that robots can do to help humanity.
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Viral Video Week in Review (Oct. 22-28)

Posted October 29, 2011 - 7:59 am

Welcome to the inaugural post of our viral video week in review. In this post, I hope to show you some tech- and geek-related videos that you may have missed during the week, because you were busy doing work or other productive things.
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Lego robot clock tells you the time (eventually)

Posted October 28, 2011 - 1:45 pm

It's not as easy as looking at a watch or your cell phone's clock, but it's still cool if you're into Legos and robotics.
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When the robots take over, they'll be able to applaud

Posted October 26, 2011 - 9:21 am

These robotic arms are happy and they know it, because they can clap their hands. In this video, we see a demonstration of "Ondz" robotic clappers, developed by Masato Takahashi, a researcher at Keio University.
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Lego robot solves Rubik's Cube faster than humans

Posted October 20, 2011 - 3:51 pm

The continuing race between robots and humans keeps chalking up victories for our soon-to-be ruling overlords.
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Robots play Ping-Pong: From Table Tennis to Terminator?

Posted October 17, 2011 - 10:29 am

Robots build cars and have Three Laws thanks to Isaac Asimov, but news shows like cute, even in China. Result? A new video of` a robot playing Ping-Pong, this time against another robot.
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Robot Arm Brings us One Step Closer to Terminators

Posted October 4, 2011 - 9:34 am

At the CEATEC show in Japan, Cyberdyne Inc. showed off its prototype robotic arm, which it says will help the weak, disabled and elderly. But as any science-fiction fan knows, this is the first step towards building the Terminator robots that will destroy us all.
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DJ Roomba in the house! Music robot seen at DEMO Fall 2011

Posted September 14, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Boom box or robot boom box? You decide...
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