Imagine going into the kitchen at six in the morning, on a bleary Monday, and plodding heavy steps over to your trusty coffeemaker and having the Keurig see you enter its line of sight, recognize you, and ask, “Would you like coffee, Dave?” “Yes, damn it,…
Everyone wants a doctor with experience but, when it comes to prostate exams, no one wants to be a practice dummy. Introducing Patrick, the virtual patient that takes clumsy rookie resident fingers so you don’t have to. This embarrassingly compromised medical…
Since I was a child of the 80’s, there has been speculation on when the cartoon Transformers would inspire real-life robotics experts to form a transforming bot, and Carnegie Mellon, competing for the $2m DARPA prize, has constructed the CHIMP to make dreams come…
The steadily declining bee population has caused concern among many environmental scientists. Without bees, the earth's very ecosystem could be in peril. Since 2009, however, three scientists have been researching a way to create man-made bees that can potentially take…
Well Skynet is certainly sitting in a dimly lit server room rubbing virtual hands together, because the future of mankind and robots is going forward, in force, with Boston Dynamic’s latest version of Big Dog, which happens to be very successfully hurling…
If your grills’ cooktop looks like a botched batch of rock candy and you haven’t seen the shine of clean grates since you first purchased your grill so many summers ago, get your wallet ready for Grillbot. Just toss Grillbot onto your grill, select light or…
Some day soon we’ll be printing out our own life-size humanoid robot from home printers that, with minimal assembly, can be fully animated and respond to voice commands. Oh wait – that day is here. Introducing InMoov, an animated life sized robot with human…
Introducing WheeMe, the ambiguously erotic robot massager that is essentially a Roomba for your sore back. The WheeMe, which is manufactured by affordable robotic toy and gift company DreamBots, uses a unique tilt senor technology and automatically steers itself all…
My cat is already scared of anything that is automatic or makes a loud noise. Even if the vacuum cleaner is turned off and resting against a wall somewhere in the house, she won’t go near that room until it’s gone. And when it is gone she still makes sure it’s…
The only thing left on the bucket list is to see the fully armored heaviest of metal bands, Compressorhead robots rockin’ out “Ace of Spades” with Lemmy stepping in to belt out the lead vocals! Because these bad-ass bots, not only can play, but do play live…
If you’re like most Americans, you’re probably too lazy to walk anywhere… let alone walk your kid to school. And in the era where wars are fought by remote control and intelligence is gained against our enemy using unmanned crafts from thousands of miles away,…
Kogoro Kurata’s childhood dream was to grow up and take over the world. No not really, but Tokyo, Japan based artist Kurata did grow up watching an overdose inducing amount of manga and science fiction films. His father was also a blacksmith who taught him how to…