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This Week In The Future, February 11-15, 2013 BaarbarianIn the future, everyone’s going to want to look at your vacation photos. Want to win this awesome Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It’s easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we’re @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the Future tweet. One of those lucky retweeters will be chosen to receive a custom T-shirt with this week’s Baarbarian illustration on it, thus making the winner the envy of friends, coworkers and everyone else with eyes. (Those …
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Robo-Doctor Business WireBecause you’ve always wanted to see your doctor through an iPad. Robots are taking over the world. Robo-nurses have been around for a while, but in the quest to make healthcare more efficient, another medical robot could soon be coming to a hospital near you. The FDA has just cleared RP-VITA, a telemedicine robot that can navigate autonomously, for hospital use. The doc-bot allows a doctor to consult with patients and hospital staff remotely through an iPad interface. Built by I…
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This Week In The Future, December 31-January 1, 2013 BaarbarianIn the future, a robot still won’t be able to eat like a panda. Want to win this competitive Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It’s easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we’re @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the Future tweet. One of those lucky retweeters will be chosen to receive a custom T-shirt with this week’s Baarbarian illustration on it, thus making the winner the envy of friends, coworkers and everyone else with eyes. (Thos…
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General Motors reprograms robots to put a toy car in a wrapped box. Unionize, elves, before it’s too late! Sure, the elves in this video look happy, but are they secretly worried about job security? They should be. GM reprogrammed a few robots in its line to wrap gifts, and this will likely not bode well for some of the little guys. [Autoblog]
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Watch it stretch. We see a lot of robots here, including some that mimic human movement. But this one gets a special prize for having the most muscles–or the robot equivalent, pulley-like contraptions–of any robot based on a natural creature. The final muscle tally for the University of Tokyo’s Kenshiro robot is 160, with 50 in the legs, 76 in the trunk, 12 in the shoulder, and 22 in the neck. And it also has a slightly unnerving pair of tennis shoes. The ‘bot is 158 centimeters tall and weighs 50 ki…
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Mind-Controlling A Robot via DigInfo TVAn electrode cap and computer program can translate brain signals into commands for a humanoid robot. Researchers in Japan are using a brain-machine interface to control the actions of a humanoid robot. The goal is to allow people “to feel embodied in the body of a humanoid robot,” in the words of one researcher. Roboticists at the CRNS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, a collaboration between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Japanese Institu…
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Autobots and Decepticons move over because there's a new Japanese franchise about cars transforming into robots and it's named Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter. Well, actually, to be frank, it’s far too early to tell if the new franchise will have the success of the Transformers series but the fact that it has licensed several cool cars like the Nissan GT-R, Mazda RX-8, Toyota 86 (Scion FR-S in North America) and Mitsubishi Lancer EVO has certainly captured our attention. After searching into the …
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SAPBER A bomb-disposal robot (left) places a pipe bomb on top of SAPBER. RE2 Inc. The first priority in a bomb-related emergency is, of course, to safely dismantle the bomb. If it’s a pipe bomb–the basement-built explosive device–a robot could be sent in to do the job. But enlisting one could hurt officials’ secondary objective: obtaining evidence to determine who built the bomb. SAPBER, a new robot, can safely disarm it and turn over the forensics needed to track down its maker. Short for semi autonom…
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Inari Sushi DigInfo TV When the need arises for a very specific type of robot, odds are pretty good it exists in Japan. A new Japanese robot can make 2,500 fried tofu rolls per hour, puffing little triangles of tofu with air and stuffing them with rice with precision and speed. It is so careful that the designers, based at Suzumo, compare it to a syringe: The fried tofu skin is opened quickly, and then more air is blown in so the rice can be inserted. Inari sushi rolls are fried tofu triangles or square…
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Victorious DiscoRobo End-zone dance! Dan BracagliaThis is about as close as DiscoRobo can get to raising his arms in victory
Thousands of votes were cast in our first robot dance-off, but the winner was clear early on. Tosy’s DiscoRobo earned a dominating 78 percent of the tally. Mattel’s Fijit friend earned 13 percent of the electorate for personality, and MyKeepon took home the remaining 9 percent — likely based on cuteness alone, since as basically two-thirds of a rubber yellow snowman, MyKeepon is n…
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