The much anticipated Avatar from James Cameron has some “not heard before” information on how the movie was conceptualized and to the details of the hardware.
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Touch Bionics’ ProDigits Offers Hope to Those with Missing Fingers – Video Within
Good news to those who has lost their digits (finger). Touch Bionics has produced ProDigits that is able to be customized to replace amputated fingers. It uses myoelectric regime which reacts to the muscle signals from the residual hand or pressure from the remnant finger for its input.
Pleo, the Green Dinosaur, is Back! – Video Within
Pleo is back. Remember the cute little dinosaur that stir up quite a big interest last year? The company went down and everyone thought that Pleo will be gone for good. Good news is that it has been revived by Jetta, who bought the rights to Pleo several months ago, […]
iRobot Jamming Robot Can Do Shape Shifting, Eerie – Video Within
iRobot, famous for its robot vacuum cleaners, is doing something out of the world. Imagine a shape shifting robot that morph into the surrounding. iRobot is working with DARPA to come out with something like that. They used a technology they called Jamming. It uses a simple theory of introduction […]
Murata Seiko, The Unicycle Girl Robot Gets An Upgrade, Rides on Thin Beam – Video Within
Murata Seiko is an Unicycle Robot that balances itself. She was shown previously last year but now, she underwent an upgrade. With faster speed, better balancing skills, she will demonstrate her skills again at Ceatec 2009.
China Robots,JingJing and PuiPui, Doing Tai Chi – Video Within
We have seen robots dance, walk, run. But China is making its robot to do Tai Chi. From a technology standpoint, the balancing algorithm is very good. Tai Chi is a very slow form of marital arts and the JingJing and PuiPui executed them with ease. Video after the break.