Posted by hina on November 12, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Digital Camera | 
Carnegie Mellon University announced a $300 robot designed to easily enable people to create super-high-resolution panoramic pictures–and a Web site to let anyone in the world dive into them.
The GigaPan robot, built by Charmed Labs, can accommodate most compact cameras and is designed to be relatively inexpensive, said Illah Nourbakhsh, a Carnegie Mellon associate professor of robotics. Images then are uploaded to the new GigaPan website. They also can be viewed through the Google Earth software.
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The Vstone Robovie-PC robot has almost every component found in a computer, like a netbook, has an Intel Atom processor inside. The use of an Intel Atom and other components of a computer allows the robot to be easily programmable.
Hobbyists can develop or alter the application software for this robot. You can code the software on a computer, make some changes and then download to the robot for testing. This Vstone Robovie-PC comes with almost everything found in a computer ioncluding the 1.6GHz Z530 Atom processor, 1.3 magepixel webcam, dual USB ports, a VGA connector and it supports WiFi some more. The WiFi connectivity should come in handy for you to download any new code onto it via the wireless network.
Since this mini robot is like a complete computer, it also runs Windows or Linux as the operating system. And it offers easiness to achieve advanced functionality. The Vstone Robovie Robot can also be directed by the user to go around and take pictures using its webcam and upload the pictures automatically to photo sharing sites via the WiFi connectivity.
The robot is powered by a 7.2V NiMH battery. The exterior body is made of a polyurethane foam that provides electronic protections with soft and squishy material properties. The 15-inch tall Vstone Robovie won’t come cheap, it costs around $4,500, could be the most expensive in the market but it offers lots of flexibilities for hobbyists to customize or develop it to have more functionalities.
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
The latest robotic figure brought to you by Sega Toys, is their super feminine robot, which they’re planning to ship on September 26th. And selling it for a price of $175. Sega Toys has given this female robot a name called EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization.
The EMA female robot stands 38 cm tall. It comes with “glamorous body” that presents high level of interactivity to its master. This female robot is made to imitate those actions of a lady, such as dancing, singing and walking around like a lady. Besides, she knows how to introduce herself or the company that she represents by giving out her business card.
This female robot sounds pretty aggressive for kissing. As long as you lay your head closer to her, her love sensor will kick in, and you’ll get then get couple of kisses from her. On her body are those many infrared sensors that help her detect all sort of obstacles, find her way to interact with humans and respond to various stimuli of the environment. The movable parts of this female robot include the elbow, shoulders, the waist and the knees.
Sega plans to sell this robot in Japan only, and it’s made to target the adults and Sega hope to achieve 10,000 units sold in 12 months’ time.
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The guy, Michael Salter is a geek who loves styrofoam (or polystyrene foam) sculpture arts so much. He’s made many robots out of the styrofoams. And the most amazing is one of the robots is a giant robot that stands at 22-feet tall.
The maker of these robots makes use of those discarded packing materials that can easily be found at some common disposal grounds of some factories or warehouses. He has also built a wooden skeletal system to form the “bones” of these robots to give them a firm support.
The biggest robot is definitely a super impressive one. Look at it how it’s surrounded by many of those pint-sized Styrobots.
But of course, these robots can be easily destroyed by throwing a few of your karate chops or kicks.
These robots have been shown above the Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon at the San Jose Museum of Art, which runs through October 19, 2008.
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Vstone is rolling out their Black Ox robot by end of September. More pictures and video after the jump!
But they seem to be little stingy with their production of these robots, which they’ve planned for 30 only. Now you’re left with 15 only for pre-order.
The Blackox robot is 440mm tall and weighs 2.5 kg. The price? It isn’t cheap, unless you’re great fan of this robot, who is willing to spend about $7,400 for it.
Other features are 22 degrees of freedom, wireless controller and it’s got a pair of LED-powered eyes.
Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories, Auto |
Nissan has made the BR32C robot, which is equipped with technology to avoid car crashes.
They’ve carried out the test of the crash avoiding technology using the BR32C robot, and it’s reportedly to have run smoothly on this little bot.
The Nissan BR32C robot is inspired by bees, which I guess they make the robot to copy the bees’ instinct on how to avoid crashing on other moving or non moving objects surrounding them. Eventually, Nissan will bring this technology into their future cars.
If Nissan managed to get this technology into cars, it’d definitely save lots of lives on the road and greatly reduce the number of car accidents. Hope, it wouldn’t take too long for Nissan to complete this technology in cars, as we really need it to be safer on the road.
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The Japanese have extensive use of robots in their daily life. It isn’t the first time we’ve heard that they make use of robots as the receptionists to entertain visitors or to guide their way through.
The MechaDroid Type C3 is the new robot designed by the Japanese firm, Business Design, which its function is to work as a receptionist. This robot has been demoed at the Tokyo’s CEATEC. It’s reportedly saying that the robot uses face recognition technology to interpret the needs of visitors and assist them in acquiring information or directions displayed on the touchscreen panel that is being held this robot.
The robot will also show some responses on his face – some form of digital expression, to accompany his audio responses. The company expects to price this robot as much as $28,000, which is solely for business users who can afford.
This robot could make a hit, if it becomes a hot trend in Japan, that every business will want one of these robot receptionists to stand at their front doors. So, in order to stay competitive and continue in business, you need this robot cuteness for your business.
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Posted by friend on November 7, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Net gun isn’t new to us, it’s useful for capturing criminals. But now the robotic world has automated it by having a robot called Tmsuk T-34, which is capable firing the net gun to capture the baddies.
The Tmsuk T-34 is controllable via a mobile phone, and the robot is able to send the live video feedback back to the mobile phone via Bluetooth. The Tmsuk T-34 robot itself is also equipped with a microphones and heat sensors, which allows the users to aim and fire the net at the thief more precisely.