The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
The race to privately-funded space took a shot to the groin this weekend when the lunar lander from Armadillo Aerospace burst into flames upon ignition. According to reports, the engine exploded but luckily no one was hurt in the accident. The company founded by video game maker John Carmack had come to the high desert [...]
Or maybe I should say disaster looms closer on the horizon now that some flunky from Google has decided to throw his options bonanza behind an open source robot project.
Scott Hassan, one of the architects of the Googlemister, is funding a startup called Willow Garage with the aim of developing open source technology for [...]
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer was in San Francisco today attending the CTIA conference because apparently the Windows maker is very keen on this whole new mobile phone thing. And by that I mean they watched Apple steal a huge chunk of a market they had no interest in, which then of course created interest. (Please [...]
Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot sure is getting a lot of play these days. First it was taking a starring roll in the company’s new television ads, and now he’s out there teaching the kids about safety.
A 14-minute DVD being distributed to grade schools features the short, monochrome robot spreading some knowledge so the kids [...]
Proof positive that robot propaganda has been around a lot longer than you think. Back in the heyday of comic books there was a title called G.I. Robot about, you guessed it, a robot soldier. According to Dr. K’s 100-Page Super Spectacular, the comic by Bob Kanigher concerned a robot called J.A.K.E. built by the [...]
The original giant robot of anime, Gigantor. Happy Friday!
At Robodock 2007, some engineers from Robochrist Industries built a huge hydraulic hand controlled by an armature that fits on the operator’s arm. Their next project should be to turn this into a giant game of Rock’em Sock’em Robots.
(from Wired)
I know you’ve heard a lot about the scary robots being cooked up in secret laboratories that are are going to take over the world, but seriously those mechanical insects you see hovering over anti-war rallies are not robot spies. The government is so not using tiny bug bots to keep tabs on you, I [...]
That is right folks, the official word from ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura is that Japan’s ag ministry is not the department to call if you have questions or concerns about Gundam. That would be the Giant Robot Ministry, which I believe is the largest agency in the Japanese government.
What actually prompted this statement was [...]
Those clever monkeys at Neiman Marcus have jumped on the robot bandwagon. In its latest “crazy gifts you’ll never buy” catalog, the upscale retailer lists something called Swami, a fortune telling atomoton with artificial intelligence.
Apparently this creepy head in a crystal ball has camera sensors that can recognize your family members and with its [...]
