Ever wondered what would happen if you were in the pit Wowwee Roboquad against an excitable, silent puppy? Surprising no longer my friends, that the answer to this old question was captured on video - NES replete with sound effects and scoring 8 bits. Watch the battle for ultimate supremacy after the break ... Our money is on the dog.

We had our share of Robovies, and let's just say we have a healthy fear of 'em. Having said that, we are pretty confident that we would come darn close to fainting or reacting violently creature should approach the photo above us while shopping ever. Nevertheless, this humanoid was apparently allowed to run amok at Universal Citywalk Osaka as the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute is testing its ability to interpret the signals from cameras, sensors and RFID readers, and to determine whether customers are thoroughly lost. When it recognizes an individual perplexed, he wheeled over, confirms their state of confusion and politely offers guidelines for the destination of their choice. But you could tell us a serious look at the eyes and not to completely forget where you were trying to go - we triple-dog dare you.

Anyone can go to Office Depot and pick up a rolling office headquarters for fifty dollars, but it takes a true lazy person to shell almost $ 22000 for a seat at a very slow pace "walks" you in a good position to work. In fact, we doubt that the commercially available Walking Chair Vienna-based design studio Walking things is really built for sitting, it is more likely to be a asset to the ridiculous amount of disposable income that you pulling in. Each minimalist eight legs unit is assembled by hand policing, which means that you should wait at least six weeks to show your friends how little € 15000 ($ 21906) for you.

In the early competitions ROBO-ONE, there was always a "Rumble" competition featuring the top robots trying to beat each other quite out of the ring. It was a robot version of "King of the Hill" and "Last Man Standing," and it was always a lot of fun.

Somewhere around 10 ROBO-ONE, the Rumble was removed from the range. But, fortunately, it is still a key element in the contest as independent Wonderful Robot Carnival. Last weekend, at the 4th Wonderful Robot Carnival, 40 + robots participated in the Rumble, even though they were divided into 4 groups individual because it would have been total chaos if they all tried to address both.

You may remember our messages about the plight of iRobot, which had accused his ex-employee, Jameel Ahed, stealing their design, only to have the American army assigned a whopping $ 280 million contract said the former employee, and rejecting iRobot. Oh injustice!

Cry no more, other shareholders and Roomba lovers, because justice has been done! Unfortunately, the price of justice is a cool $ 2.9million dollars. But nobody has ever said that the good old "Lex Rex come cheap.

In addition to the lawsuits in the two judges in favour of rulling iRobot - a decision that FX Robotic had infringed the patent of iRobot, and the other holding that, Robotic FX stole proprietary information - Robotic FX will now be disbanded and its assets given for the payment of iRobot.

In a colony, Robotic FX will be dissolved and certain residual assets held by iRobot iRobot during the election. Ahed are prohibited from engaging in activities compete in the robotics industry for five years.

In response to the news, the US DoD awarded iRobot the $280 million dollar contract that was previously awarded to Robotic FX. While iRobot's stock price has a long way to go from $ 24 to top it was before any of these events happened, the future is looking much brighter.

A robot designed to agree to take the backbreaking farm work factor in helping the movement of users has been unveiled here.

The robot costume "agriculture", developed by a team of researchers led by Shigeki Toyama, a professor at the Higher School of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, has been tested on the farm. Researchers hope that the technology used in 2 years and turn it into a product and start selling it in four years.

Clothing, which is secured with belts, consists of a resin with eight engines to assist the movement of the knees, elbows, lower back and shoulders, which makes it easier to work farm.

By pulling a Japanese radish, for example, approximately 20 kg of instant pressure is exerted on the knees and lower back, but when you use the robot costume, only about half of the force is used.

"As the age of farmers is increasing, I wanted to develop a technology that would ease their burden," said Toyama.

While the machines are increasingly being used to cultivate farmland and rice plants, the power of the man is still often used for tasks such as fruit picking and size, and the transportation of crops. During a demonstration, a graduate student easily picked up 20 kilos of rice.

"It feels almost as if I am holding it," he says with a smile.

You can program the robot tailored to fit the type of work. With the use of an ultrasonic motor independently developed, the weight of the equipment can be reduced to about 8 kg. Sensors and wireless devices enabling monitoring of the person bringing the suit and allow people to communicate even when they are not working together.

The projected cost for each series is between 500000 and 1 million yen, but the developers expect to be able to reduce the price by about 200000 yen per costume if they can mass produce the product when it is sold.

Everyone knows that you are not a robot cones. After a few jugs of beer foam fragrant, roasted, mushrooms, eggs, cured, and even the well-mannered robot to be bad. Take a guided, fire ball, throwing industrial robots and it is guaranteed. Robots Hey, this is not 'Nam. This is the bowling. There are rules. See you after the break.

Japanese scientists have created a new anthropoid robot, controlled remotely by means of electrical signals generated as a result of brain activity. In other words, the robot is controlled by force thought, in fact, the robot is equipped with a means of Internet connection, so it is able to receive commands, and through a global network.

Project developers, engineers from the Japan Agency for Science and Technology JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), said that the main scope of the robot - hospitals, where people with varying degrees of paralysis to be rebuilt motor function.

Meanwhile, the robot tested at the University of North Carolina in the USA, where with the help of news professionals trained two experimental primates to walk on two legs only, not bent spine and not helping yourself when walking upper limbs, as do animals. Specialists say that as a result of medical experiments recorded what brain neurons activated in the future to helping patients recover paralysis primarily motor functions.

Salt experience was that the experimental monkeys were actually in the American university, a robot who has their brain activity in the Japanese city of Kyoto University. Relationship conducted via the Internet.

The robot, known as CBI (Computational Brain interface), is 155 cm tall and weighing 85 kg. According to the developers, the machine has 51 degrees of freedom, which can be compared with the plasticity of the body. The system was developed with the participation of neyrobiologa Christopher Atkensona Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). Hardware for stuffing the machine was created by Sarcos.

According to the Japanese ministry, the first results of the experiments proved to be more than successful, because from the first times scientists have received the full amount of data, which was scheduled to receive.

In the near future specialists will complicate the software and sensors machines for the CBI has been able to work not only with the basic brain signals responsible for the simple movements, but also for complex sets of data from the brain of people.

A bit of humor (or distopian prophecy) from The Onion.

We appreciate, it was only a matter of time before it happens. But one can not help but to feel a little sad and creeped-out to see Pleo information in a Santilli-esque display of sideshow attractions. Inside, doctors, more damage than ifixit one piece, skin toughens the 14 engines and more than 100 machines, 15 circuit cards, 1 color camera, 2x microphone, 1 infrared transmitter, 1 accelerometers and 8 concern Capacitive sensors. Plenty of High-Res Images to read, especially after the connection. The man, not there are laws against such a thing?

Until now a humanoid robot with a real flexibility, balance and movement was out of the price range of the average consumer. Usually it cost $ 1000 or more for a listing on the package, the famous robot-a robot in the series and the like were the exclusive domain of the hard core roboticist hobby. Tomy has decided to change everything, with its terrifically fun, talented and sensitive Sobot i-robots.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which is just 6.5 inch (16.5 cm), i-Sobot is the smallest of the large mass production of humanoid robots. It sings, dances, rolls, kicks, and not about everything you can expect, a small robot people. It also corresponds to the 10 pre-programmed voice commands and is equipped with a collection of humorous action specific commands that understand the animals and celebrity impressions. Finally, it may be appropriate to control the robot soccer tournament, racing, and other friendly competitions on its powerful infrared remote. The remote control allows you to also create scripts that the user-defined programs of the movements of the robot. The i-Sobot comes fully assembled and ready to play as soon as the exit from the pits.

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Researchers Atilim Baydin Gunes has published a document that describes the development of the central structure of generators for the control of a five-link planar mechanism of the upright Gangs (PDF format). A hardware platform was on foot, had four compounds - a knee and hip on each leg. The first attempts were in the hands a stable step to see whether it was possible. This proved to be very difficult, with the destabilisation of the hikers after a short time. Afterwards, the examiner with the help of genetic algorithms in a simulated environment, and then tested on the actual hardware to see how they played, in the real world. This produces a series of stable, the man-like gaits, including some who have done it, the stability of the approach, even if a non-use of feedback sensors.

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has published a report in detail in the future of robotics, military equipment and the way in the US Army. The 188 pages of the report (pdf) for the next 25 years without driver military systems in the air and sea, and on the ground.

“The publication of this most-recent roadmap will further our strategic planning and our overall objective of developing, procuring and integrating unmanned systems into the force structure of the Department of Defense to support our various military mission capabilities,”

This report is the only thing she has, both on Earth and in the sea of vehicles more than that, much more "people's party" and often used Arial systems. This strengthens the position of the Ministry that the integration of air-, land-, sea-and systems is an essential part of the future of the US Army.

The report contains recommendations made by the commanders on the ground and the way in which Amnesty International has also lead the development, that the "idea".

"The DoD will develop and employ an increasingly sophisticated force of unmanned systems over the next 25 years (2007 to 2032). This force must evolve to become seamlessly integrated with manned systems as well as with other unmanned systems. The Department will pursue greater autonomy in order to improve the ability of unmanned systems to operate independently, either individually or collaboratively, to execute complex missions in a dynamic environment."

Another exciting aspect of this report is a huge investment the list of all systems, with no drivers, which is currently provided by the army. The picture on the left is a photo of the Lockheed Martin Protector Umanned surface of the vehicle.

When it comes to Dubai and attracting wealthy tourists, the word "restraint" is rarely used. This is perhaps the reason why it is not surprising that the locals are the construction of a $ 1 billion theme park, with more than 100 Animatronics dinosaur than 40 species. On the "Restless Planet", the park is trying to make an educational experience in the middle of all the events in Vegas. This will deal with the issue of history and riding the robot / habitats, a detailed presentation (on the basis of current knowledge), as the lives of millions of years before.

The robots will also be able, with the guests in succession in their eyes or split like walking through. Even if you believe that the maintenance rolled to a 500000 square meters of the parks would be difficult, further details are rare. However, the park open by the end of 2008 in the City of Arabia, Dubai.

Keepon is a little yellow robot exceeds that on one thing: dance. The robot is made by the researcher CMU Marek Michalowski "recognize visual and other sensory rhythms, helping to show how the speed and synchronization in the language of the body are important in human interaction." The robot is already a feeling of YouTube with many spectators commented that Keepon dances better than possible. The little yellow from the Japanese robot usually, Hideki Kozima. Only a small number of prototypes are presently, but the fans of Keepon hope for the little robot who dance yellow on their workplace.