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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 11:45 am |
| Tags: Robots, 167, 324, 169, 2767 |
| Kyoto University and the Honda Research Institute Japan have collaborated to form the Robot Audition Project. They are at present making some very impressive ground; they have developed an advanced speech recognition technology that has the capability to understand multiple, unique speech inputs, whilst computing their meaning independently. |
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| Chuck E Cheese Robots Hacked to Play Hip Hop |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 11:55 am |
| Tags: Robots, 436, 270, 169 |
| What do you get when you mix the nightmare-inducing early-'90s robotics of Chuck E Cheese's with Bubba Sparxxx? Slightly less nightmare-inducing robots. That may be because I'm older now and less afraid of robots, but if I remember correctly the music these robots used to play while I scarfed down crappy pizza and wasted my parent's quarters on |
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| Space-age Cockpit Gives You Bug-bot Vision |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 11:50 am |
| Tags: Gadgets, 146, 827, 2120, 324, 169 |
| FuRo and Leading Edge Design, the guys who came up with the Halluc II robot have been showing off the little Linux beastie's moves, using their Hull cockpit. Boasting a 150-cm hemispherical screen which displays video from the camera embedded at the front of the robot, the cockpit has another little trick up its sleeve. Check out the two vids |
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| Spyke the Skype Robot |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Robots, 169, 667, 636, 115 |
| Normal Skype phones are boring. That's why Spyke, the Skype robot that transforms into another robot, is so cool. Not only does it transform into a slightly different bot, it's a Wi-Fi webcam, which means you can use it like a regular Skype-enabled webcam to record video, take pics and have NORMAL CONVERSATIONS. Yes, I'm talking to you through a |
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| Murata Boy Robot is a bike riding freak |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 9:00 pm |
| Tags: Robots, 477, 2568, 169, 533, 256 |
| Here's a cool little robot guy who rides a bike. Is it cheating when they only make the robot 50cm tall to ride a little bike? Even at that height, managing gyros and balances to get a robot to stay on two wheels is pretty clever stuff. He can even handle bumps in the road too, plus detect obstacles and avoid them. Go, Murato Boy, Go! Extra |
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| Homer Simpson Robosapien Caught on Video |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Robots, 517, 169, 903, 199 |
| In the realm of horrible Simpsons knockoff toys, this Homer Simpson Robosapien has to be one of the worst ever. Shall we count the things wrong with it? First, it's not even the real Homer's voice. Second, well, it's a piece of crap. Watch the video to see Shiny Shiny struggle to get the thing to work. [Shiny Shiny] |
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| Fighter Jet Software Automatically Pilots Jets to Safety, Steals Glory/Girlfriend |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Vehicles, 236, 621, 169, 249, 127, 256 |
| A new software suite called Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System installed in fighter jets is designed to prevent them from crashing straight into the ground. How? By taking over when it detects that the plane is going to fly straight into the ground, usually when the pilot's unconscious. The system can avoid 98% of plane-to-ground crashes, |
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| Mr. Woo, the Chinese Robot Farmer |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 5:20 pm |
| Tags: Robots, 827, 754, 593, 169 |
| How can a man with no formal robotic education create funny and awesome robots out of electronic parts he finds in the junk heap? Mr. Woo found a way, and created so many robots his wife has threatened to leave him (partially because he burned the house down in doing so). Among the more impressive ones are an actual working rickshaw robot that |
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| Roboboa: pet snake robot with too many features |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 9:15 pm |
| Tags: Robots, 477, 322, 3016, 169, 199, 2449 |
| I've had minutes of fun with Robosapien. Yes, minutes! This latest creation from WowWee actually looks like it could find a place in my home. The Roboboa is a cool robotic snake with umpteen features thrown in (well, 41 is the official count). My favourite is its tracking mode - sometimes it will decide to just lock onto someone in the room and |
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| Weight Loss Robot Will Shame You Into Eating Less |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 7:40 pm |
| Tags: Robots, 1272, 628, 169 |
| Hey, chubster. Do you have trouble keeping a healthy diet? Would having a friendly, diet-focused robot in your kitchen help? No? Well, don't tell the guys at the MIT Media Lab that, because that's exactly what they've been cooking up. It's an in-home robot that'll make eye contact with you while it tracks your eating habits and shuns you for |
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| Blaze-Battling Beetlejuice |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 7:15 pm |
| Tags: Robots, 477, 909, 169 |
| If giant armoured beetles scuttling around at 20km/hr sounds a bit nightmarish, you'll be glad to know that the above isn't reality - yet. German researchers from the University of Magdeburg-Stendal are developing the OLE, an off-road, fire-fighting robot that will halt blazes before they become infernos. OLE is supposed to monitor large areas of |
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| Robot Webcam Watches Disapprovingly At Your Desk Antics |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 2:40 pm |
| Tags: Cameras, Robots, 146, 169, 2200 |
| Robot webcams are all the rage nowadays, and this USB Robot doesn't look to stir up the waters with "innovation." It's got a a low-quality VGA-ish camera (350k pixels) along with lights for eyes. The same eyes that look in disapproving horror at what you're doing at your desk right now. You should be ashamed of yourself. [Akihabara] |
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| Robots Master Mid-Air Refueling on Their Way to World Domination |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Robots, Vehicles, 236, 169, 256 |
| Droids just made their next step toward completely replacing human beings, beating out human pilots in air-to-air refueling. Last year's bot-pilots were a bit clumsy, fumbling their way through the delicate maneuver that requires a pilot to perform an operation air jockeys liken to "taking a running fuck at a rolling doughnut." But this year's |
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| Japanese Robo Crane Game Takes It Up a Notch |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Games, 167, 169 |
| If you're looking for another reason why Japan looks upon us like we look upon third world countries, take crane games. We have a robotic crane we control with a joystick, but Japan has a robotic ROBOT that they control with buttons. Players move the robot around to collect one of many cute dolls—one of which is a deformed Shrek—and |
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