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Robotic Rickshaws Wander the Streets of Beijing [Robots]io9 - Nov 30, 2008 Wu Yulu may have only a primary school education, but his fascination with robots has inspired him to create 26 automata, a veritable robot army. But rather than leading his robots toward global conquest, Wu has … Also tagged: robots, china, rickshaw, robotics engineering, wu yulu |
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You Will Soon Be Watched Underwater by a Robotic Tuna [Mad Science]io9 - Nov 23, 2008 When you think of autonomous, unmanned spy vehicles, you probably imagine the telltale shape of a small aircraft overhead, and the suspicious sound of whirring propellers. Spy vehicles, however, aren't just for the sky … Also tagged: biomimetics, olin college, mad science, mad robotics, ghostswimmer, boston engineering, robotuna |
io9 - Oct 1, 2008
There just aren't enough robots in the world. This is a lament just about every sci-fi fan can agree with. Sure, we've got robots in our factories and doing some cool work in the military, plus a few keeping our floors …
Also tagged: robots, bill gates, open source, rant, euron
io9 - Sep 11, 2008
We've had robots working in our factories for decades, but no one's ever programmed Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics into one. Now some scientists and programmers are trying to make it happen, and it's not because …
Also tagged: robots, science, i robot, isaac asimov, three laws
io9 - Aug 14, 2008
At last the scientific world has pushed me a few feet closer to living my dream of being a brain inside a robot ninja body. A team of British researchers took a blob of neurons from an embryonic rat's brain, hooked it …
Also tagged: science, cyborgs, brains, mad science, rat brains
io9 - Aug 9, 2008
If you happened to venture to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid this summer, you may have come across Julio, a robot who sings in the voice of former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne while …
Also tagged: robots, uncanny valley, david byrne, david hanson, uncanny robots
io9 - May 29, 2008
A pair of monkeys at the University of Pittsburgh have taken a major step forward in futuristic prosthetics: they can now feed themselves by controlling a robotic arm with their brains. Using primitive brain implants …
Also tagged: monkey, mind control, robotic arm, prostheses, human augmentation