Apparently fish are less alien to their robotic counterparts than you might expect… Scientists wanted to find the behavior of fish by using a robot to emulate behavior in nature. So researchers from the New York Polytechnic Institute. However, they didn’t expect that the fish would take to the robotic fish so quickly, not to […]
Now for a pretty fun robot. Meet BERO. Short for Be the Robot, BERO is a robot controlled through Bluetooth and can be made to move from the phone. It looks strikingly similar to Google’s Android, but since the creators have not officially received Google’s permission, the current robot looks slightly different. BERO is a […]
Ever wanted your own personal DJ that could follow you around and get used to what kind of music you liked? Well that just might become a reality. Shimi is a robot DJ who essentially becomes your own musical companion. It has hi-quality speakers and learns from how you react to certain musics through a […]
A study on college students has shown how people distinguish trustworthiness based on behavior. First, the experiment was done with humans, and the researchers found that a lot of the time, distrust was associated with four visual cues: clasping of hands, crossing arms, touching the face or leaning away. To test this, researchers used a robot, […]
It’s a squid, it’s an octopus, it’s… it’s a robot tentacle. This Robot Tentacle is unique in that it can grasp things softly without breaking them. It’s a soft robot, so it is able to move very flexibly and easily. This newest soft robot tentacle can curl around a flower and not damage it. The […]
Remember BigDog? You know, the robot that stumbled around and could navigate rough terrain like a living creature. Well, the newest version of the dog robot incorporates yet another aspect of a dog: behavior. Made by Boston Dynamics, funded by DARPA, and called AlphaDog, the latest version can actually follow a person around, like a […]
Hugvie The future tool for telepresence is here. Here’s what you need to use it: a cell phone and $50. The cell phone is to talk (of course), and the $50 is to buy a Hugvie. The Hugvie is a strange little robot. It looks a bit like a Teletubby. It doesn’t look technological in […]
