Robo Flautist

From Technology Review comes news of the Waseda Flutist Robot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYDW2A5-Cbw

The video above shows the robot offering an impressive rendition of…

Stanford presents: everything you need to know about the Emotiv EPOCH

Stanford University presents this hour long video featuring everything you need to know about the coming Emotiv mind-reading device. The first twenty minutes is mostly background, so skip…

Stanford presents: everything you need to know about the Emotiv EPOCH

Bristol Uni are giving robots human facial expressions

Meets Jules:

Developed at Bristol University, UK, in partnership with Hanson Robotics, as an attempt to bridge the Uncanny Valley by giving a robot realistic human facial expressions….

Bristol Uni are giving robots human facial expressions

Re: Anime Goes Live-Action in Hollywood

Speed Racer is fan-frikkin-tastic.. if *they* were doing the GITS movie I would almost be happy.. but wait, they already made it the Matrix, and it’s well-documented how much they stole for GITS in…

Re: Anime Goes Live-Action in Hollywood

Re: Japanese Arcades and Their Future Game

but dude, Mobile Suit Gundam is like the greatest arcade game ever!

Re: Japanese Arcades and Their Future Game

Re: Household Robots to do Your Chores in 7 Years

keep reading Saturn’s Children…

Re: Household Robots to do Your Chores in 7 Years

Hayashi Shigeki, from Tajimi City, draws inspiration for these ceramic figures from images from science fiction, animated film and Japanese comic books known as manga, all of which have…

Hayashi Shigeki’s Ceramic Mecha

The piezoelectric dance floor.

Wolven made a very good point in his comment on the Walking Power Plant post the other day; “Implementation needs to be reversed: under the sidewalk, retaining energy with Every Step.”.

The piezoelectric dance floor.

Ultrasound cuff to stop the geysers of blood

From CNET News:

Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has contracted with Siemens Healthcare, the University of Washington’s Centre for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound and…