The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
In their never-ending quest to augment the human form with metal and hydraulics, researchers in Japan have developed a powered exoskeleton designed to help carpenters hang drywall. The wearable device provides lifting power and strength to assist in the arduous task of putting up ceiling panels and other heavy-lifting activities.
Having done some drywall work in [...]
Alright, maybe not everything that robots do is 100% pure evil. Take for example this performance of The Nutcracker by several warehouse automation bots from KIVA Systems. It is pretty sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdmtya8emMw
On the other hand, maybe this is just the first step by KIVA Systems towards automating the entire Christmas season. May your holiday be joyous [...]
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)
We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here of more and more robots designed to service our needs where it comes to alcohol, either mixing cocktails, pouring us beers, or just tossing cans of lager at us, so we thought it would be a good and novel idea to make a video with a warning about the [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCccJlW3GUM
I’m starting to think that robots — or maybe the robot makers — are maybe a tad bit alcoholic with all these bots designed to pour beer and mix drinks. Though I would say that this one would be a little tough to get into the living room. Better stick with the Japanese version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQ2GNKCoOQ
The robots are everywhere, and not a humanoid in sight.
