Robotics |E=mc²

Einstein III Ein wenig mehr Respekt bitte schön!

Robots |Telepresence

The February 25th episode of Robots Podcast
features interviews with Jean-Christophe Baillie,
founder and CEO of Gostai, previously known for their
Urbi robotic platform (now open source), and makers of the
recently introduced Jazz telepresence robot, and with Trevor
Blackwell of Anybots, makers of the two-wheeled, balancing telepresence
robot recently featured in a popular YouTube video in which the robot rolls
up to the counter of a coffee shop, where it represented its remote operator for
a pastry purchase.


Read on, or Tune in!

quelle: robots.net

Roboter |Humor

NMA Asks: Will 2011 Be the Year the Battlebots and Sexbots Take Over?: "

Fembot Teacher NMA.tv

Taiwan's animated news service thinks it just might happen

Will 2011 be the year we finally welcome robots into our lives?

We're already well on our way, as the brilliant animators at Next Media Animation show us in this video.

And their proof comes straight from the pages of PopSci.

Already, robots are serving food at a Chinese restaurant; teaching English to South Korean children; and driving Google cars.

And how could we (or NMA) forget Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, known for his creepily lifelike fembots and Larvabot, the telenoid robot.

It's only a matter of time, NMA suggests, before the military uses fembots for nefarious ends and before they start doing some real damage to human relationships.