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At this year’s CES, consumer robot maker WowWee is set to unveil its newest models including several bots that tell jokes. So this is where the robot revolution is taking us?
According to PC World, the company’s new products include Mr. Personality, a three-wheeled robot with an LCD face that really, really wants to be your [...]
So the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has a plan. A grand plan. Make robots a centerpiece of Japanese life and integrate them into all facets of human interaction, hopefully countering a declining labor pool, declining birth rate, and aging population,
METI apparently distributed literature at the 2007 CES to this effect:
Indeed, Kalb [...]
While 2007 might not be the Year of the Bot, things seem to be picking up in the world of consumer robots, as there was lots of creepy robot on robot action to be found at CES this year.
iRobot (maker of the Roomba and Scooba) unveiled its iRobot Create, which is basically a Roomba but [...]
In addition to all the other gadgets and robots appearing at this year’s CES, the show also featured an appearance by the world famous falling robot ASIMO. Only this time, he/she/it didn’t fall down. Instead it ran around the stage, did a little dance, and successfully negotiated those stairs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_FvniV380
If that wasn’t enough for you, Engadget [...]
Not content to rest on its Robo laurels, WowWee rolled out four new robot lines at CES, along with an animatronic Elvis head, for good measure.
New robots from WowWee include the Roboboa (a snake-like robot), Robopanda (you guessed it, a robot panda), Roboquad (a four-legged bot), and RS Media (the long awaited next generation Robosapien).
Sharp unveiled their newest entry in the Bigger than Jebus LCD category, with their newest model clocking in at a gargantuan 108″. Sharp’s mega TV trumped a 100″ introduced a few hours hours earlier at CES by LG Electronics.
Don’t get me wrong, big TVs are cool, but isn’t this ginormous TV arms race getting [...]
If we were cooler, or richer, or better looking, I’m sure we would have been at CES gawking over the latest and greatest electronic gadgets all weekend long. As it turns out, we’re just a dull bunch of geeks stuck far from the action. Luckily, though, some top bloggers from Engadet, Joystiq, Gizmodo, and Ubergizmo [...]
