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Galileo: A robotic arm for your iPhone
The iPhone’s video functionality is great: you can share not just your voice, but your face, as those ads a few years ago emphasized. Although we can’t imagine it’s great in all situations. Or most situations, actually.
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FTR Caddy Trek: Finally, a robot golf caddy
Golf is, for most of us, less of a sport and more of a social obligation. Your boss golfs, or your girlfriend’s dad golfs, or your dad and uncles golf, so, as a result, you golf. And, hey, at least you get some walking in, right?
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VIDEO: Hagent is a rolling heat-spewing robot that will lower your energy bills
It’s the middle of winter, a mild winter, but winter nonetheless. You’re paying through the nose for heating bills, whether you’ve got gas, electric, oil, or are some wood-burning hippie in the middle of the woods, in which case, why are you reading this, don’t you have
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VIDEO: This robot salaryman that detects breast sizes from afar is video game related
Along with the robot salaryman trying to buy beer at a convenience store, but not having much luck. Or at least I think that’s what’s going on?
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VIDEO: Japan mixes pillows and robots to make a nightmare
Everybody remembers that time as a kid when they thought something in their room was alive. Noises and shadows combine to terrify you in the night, and possibly lead to yet another cleaning of your rubber she-ah, let's just move on and show you the absolutely terrifying pillow that, who else, the
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VIDEO: Texas cops have weaponizable UAV
Hey, we get the appeal of owning your very own UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle; i.e. a flying robot). They're great at parties, and for destroying your enemies. On the other hand, we're not really sure what a Houston suburb really needs with what amounts to a glorified RC helicopter.
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Robots now feed on the blood of insects?
In the entire time that we've been building machines to do the jobs we hate doing, one thing we have actually made sure to do is to keep them dependent on us. Want to keep washing our laundry and building our cars? Better be nice or we'll flip the power switch and shut you down, mofos. Yeah! Who's
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Robots and humans can now share a skin
Replacing skin is a pretty difficult and nasty business, as one might expect. So the search for a good synthetic skin has been going on for decades. Now, a skin invented for robots might actually be ideal for people too. Meaning you may be sharing a look