Category Archives: Robotics

Robogames 2011: Flame throwers, rocket launchers and endless robot mayhem

By redgirl | Published: April 20, 2011
Walking into the arena, the first thing you notice are the noises: booming, clanging, the sound of metal crashing upon metal a short distance away. Followed by the smell of flames and burning rubber. Welcome to Robogames. Robogames is an annual robotics competition that features more than 50 different events, including combat, sumo, hockey and [...]
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Add a Fleshlight to these robots, and most men would have no need for a woman anymore.

By redgirl | Published: October 27, 2010
Combine the technology in the following two videos, and there’s really no need for me to exist. Should I be depressed, or excited at our technological prowess? Well, at least I still beat the robots at cooking. Damn it! No but really, robots can’t hold a candle to my chocolate chip cookies.
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Babies can’t tell the difference between robots and humans. OK OK, nice robots and humans.

By redgirl | Published: October 14, 2010
According to a new study, 18 month old babies can’t discern the difference between a a human, and a robot that interacts socially like one. Mothers of the future rejoice: your child won’t be scarred by your robot nanny. The study involved 64 babies. In a test (performed individually) of 16, 13 of them would [...]
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Creepy robotic swan performs to Swan Lake

By redgirl | Published: October 8, 2010
I’ve been yearning to fuse my love of tech and dance for a while, but someone beat me to it. What you see is a robotic swan that has been programmed to “dance” to an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. I don’t think that I would call it what it’s doing dancing, but the robot [...]
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Robot Rock: Anybots QB Launch Party

By redgirl | Published: September 17, 2010
Anybots QB Telepresence Robot in Action from Christina Bonnington on Vimeo. I had the opportunity to attend the Anybots QB Launch Party on Wednesday in Mountain View, at the Anybots/Y Combinator offices. It was great getting to meet more people in tech–engineers, robotics aficionados, and PR–and it was awesome getting to check out the QB [...]
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