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Honda Walking Assistance for Elderly & Disabled

Honda is well known for its cars and motorcycles. What is less known is its research in robotics technology, as seen in the Honda ASIMO robot. Since the company is capable of making ASIMO walk “reliably” on its own, why not extend the technology to help humans in walking? And thus, Honda’s new Walking Assist Device [...]

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Honda ASIMO Falls Down The Stairs…Again

Honda ASIMO’s spirit is truly worthy of admiration. Even falling down the stairs in front of audiences will not make him give up. And so he tries again… And he falls again… On second thought, ASIMO. Just put some wheels and forget about the stairs.

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Honda ASIMO Trips And Falls

Poor ASIMO, all he wanted was to get up the stairs. Check out the video, but please do not laugh. Robots have feelings too ya know.

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China’s Sexy Singing Robot

She (or should I say ‘it’?) doesn’t move naturally yet, but it sure is a good start to world domination by sexy dominatrix robots. Her makers named her Dion, so that makes her a blonde that sings mandarin songs. Check out the video.

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RuBot II: Robot that Solves Rubik’s Cubes in under 50 Seconds

This badass-looking robot is known as RuBot II, a robot that can solve any Rubik’s Cube in under 50 seconds. It speaks in a rather gentlemanly manner. And upon placing a Rubik’s Cube on its tray, it picks it up, scans the cube with its camera-fitted eyes, and goes on to solving it in blazing [...]

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Claudia Mitchell, First Woman to Receive a Bionic Arm

Claudia Mitchell, 26, lost her left arm some time ago from a motorcycle accident. It is a painful experience as she describes how it changed her life, such as having to overcome something as simple as peeling a banana. Now, her life is getting a dramatic change again, but for the better. Defense Advanced Research Projects [...]

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Who Else Wants A Really HUGE Gundam Robot?

Not huge enough to pilot, but still darn huge! This 5-foot (1.5m) tall 1/12 scale RX-78-2 Gundam is all yours if you could bear to part with just 350,000 Yen (~US$3,050). For those unfamiliar with Gundam (doh!), it is one of the most wildly popular anime series featuring mechas. And the Gundam featured here is one [...]

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Real Mecha Suit With Side-Mounted Guns

Forget Honda’s ASIMO. What we want are robots like this Land Walker that comes with side-mounted guns! It is nowhere as advanced as your favorite anime/movie mechas, but at least you can own this one. Yes, but at a sky-high price of $315,000. Made by Mr. Masaaki Nagumo, the Land Walker measures 11 feet tall and [...]

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AIBO Gains Skills To Take Over The World

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in robots has always been limited by the “rules” set by its creators. Now researchers over at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology have developed a technology that could allow robots to evolve by themselves without any human intervention. They are calling this the Embedded and Communicating Agents (ECAgents) technology. Not only [...]

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Computers Can Soon Transform 2D Images Into 3D

Creating 3D animations from regular 2D images has long been thought impossible by researchers since three decades ago. Describing the geometry of objects to a computer was no easy task back then. Even research computers are so much slower than our current home computers. But the time is different now. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has [...]

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