Science Fiction Robots

The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology

Working Out Doggy Style

Feeling fat and lazy after your Super Bowl party? Well, if bizzare body makeup and creepy looking poodles dancing around and sweatin’ to the oldies doesn’t bother you, maybe you should download the Mariko Takahashi workout video from the Panasonic web site. Yeah, this made rounds a year ago or so, but it’s still pretty [...]

XBox 360 fails to sell to Japanese Gamers

Since its December debut in Japan, the Xbox 360 has sold less than 110,000 units. Microsoft executives have blamed the poor sales on the lack of games at launch and confusion about high definition. Microsoft claims that the Japanese public doesn’t understand what high definition is and that marketing could not convey the concept well [...]

So Long Aibo

We obviously have an interest in robots and robotics research here at SFR, so you might understand the news last week that Sony is discontinuing its Aibo robot dog brought a mix of sadness, relief, and dismay. It was sad because, well gosh darn it, Aibo is just so cute. We were relieved, though, that [...]