The small steps of Asimo are more like giant leaps for mankind and for robots. Honda Research Institute, ATR and Shimadzu have successfully displayed a Brain Machine Interface (BMI) controlling the Asimo. The interface uses electroencephalography...
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The tiny LEGO movie theater gets a dose of realism with a working, very tiny movie projector. The projector works at 24 fps, not exactly good picture quality, but then you aren’t going to watch movies in there unless there’s some magic...
Skype has finally hit the App Store, bringing VoIP to the iPhone. The app is free, and works over Wi-Fi; 3G and EDGE cannot be used for the application. The app will have most of the functions from Skype, and you can chat and make voice calls as...
Taiwan-based Acer Inc. gears up to launch its notebook PCs in three variants, this April hopefully. Banking on Intel’s CULV (consumer ultra low voltage) platform, Acer hopes to release 11.6-, 13-, 14- and 15-inch notebook PCs, not independently...
Not content with five senses, MIT is all set to introduce “the sixth sense” to lend swiftness and proficiency to our decision-making. After informing you textually here, now we have this video to let you discover how Dr. Pattie Maes and her...
Students from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have designed a concept for an elevated and automated railway system that intends to do away with the congestions on roads. The ambitious public transport system foreseeing driverless compartments..
Improbable as it may sound, Kevin Warwick’s robot has a real, living, biological brain. The project started when his team noticed that rat neurons spread on electrodes had formed connections with each other. Researchers fed the “developing...
These concepts by Nikita Buyanov show laptops for HP-Intel, custom made specifically for women. The laptops come with a range of interesting features, aimed fair and square at the intended demographic. Where else would see laptops that double up as.
Now a robotic vacuum cleaner that senses human emotions to carry out its chores, developed robot vacuum cleaner relies on human stress conditions and muscle tension to know which way it has to go and what it has to do.
How the robot reads and...
A patent filing by Apple shows details of a touchscreen navigation system. Most of the systems currently in use can make the driver take eyes off the road, an obvious disadvantage. To get rid of the problems associated with these systems, Apple’s...
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