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Yearly Archives: 2008

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  1. Body Swap Illusion Can Make You Believe You’re A Robot (Or A Chick)

    Body Swap Illusion Can Make You Believe You’re A Robot (Or A Chick)

    BotJunkie - 15 hours ago

    Swedish neuroscientists have figured out experimentally that a simple stereo camera setup and some careful touching can get about 70 or 80 percent of people to feel like they exist in a different body. It’s a

    Tagged: research, novelty, cybernetics

  2. Brits Get Pole Dancing Robots

    Brits Get Pole Dancing Robots

    BotJunkie - 15 hours ago

    I don’t know anything about these robots besides that they exist, they have no clothes on, they pole dance, and they’re on display at the MuTate exhibition in London. The BBC has a video that I haven’t been able to rip

    Tagged: art

  3. Micromagic Hexapod Now Available At Trossen

    Micromagic Hexapod Now Available At Trossen

    BotJunkie - 16 hours ago

    Matt Denton’s impressive hexapod robot is now available in kit form over at Trossen Robotics. We’ve seen it doing cool stuff for about a year now, and it’s finally up for purchase. The hexapod comes with a brain that

    Tagged: hobby, consumer

  4. ABB Robots Steal My Job

    BotJunkie - 19 hours ago

    Back when I was a starving young undergrad, I took the only summer job I could find… At M & N Plastics in Portland, Oregon. We made roof vents. My job was to pull plastic pieces out of a molding machine, trim off

    Tagged: industrial

  5. Winboni Sucks Dirt Off Windows

    BotJunkie - Dec 3, 2008

    Last week we posted about a micromouse that used vacuum power to stick to the floor as it races about at high speed. Students at Michigan State University used the same principle to create Winboni, a window cleaning

    Tagged: research, diy, competitive

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