The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
While some researchers are out there pushing the boundaries of robot technology with bots that dance and warrior robots, some other people seem to know where the real money will be made with all these mechanical beasts: Robot’s that serve booze.
Now we’ve already seen the beer throwing robot (entertaining but better suited to frat houses), [...]
Okay, these aren’t real robots, but the US Postal Service is deploying an army of mailboxes built to look like R2D2, and I say that’s a step in the right direction. I could get behind the idea of a motionless robot that just has a slot to drop in mail. Maybe it could confirm for [...]
While my earnest distrust of robots will most likely never end, I’m willing to concede now that there might be some good uses for these mechanical beasts. My change of heart came after watching this video of a beer launching fridge that can hurl icy cold ones across the room with amazing accuracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAzMSM-7o4
Pretty cool, no? [...]
We all know that robots have the capacity to serve man and, well, To Serve Man, but this week we get an example of the former.
In robot crazy Japan researchers are hard at work teaching their bots to perform useful domestic and service-oriented tasks. (What, there aren’t enough gaijin around to do these things?) The [...]
According to Hospital Development, we’re just a few years away from a virtual army of robots taking over our health care system, emptying bedpans, tidying up rooms, and even slicing up gall bladders.
obots that can clean, tidy and even look after patients could be a reality in just three years under an EU-funded project.
Researchers [...]
You’re single and swinging, but when you entertain friends you don’t want to have to do all the serving yourself. What do you do? Turn to mechanicals, of course.
From UNIX Co. of Japan comes Hai-mochi Doll, a hand-crafted wind-up doll that serves sake. The mech is made from birch and chery wood, is dressed in [...]
