Tests, upgrades and final checks are being carried out on the Robonaut 2, the humanoid spacefaring robot that has been in the works since 2007. The baby of NASA and General Motors, this sack of metal and wires has already produced a catalog of 34 new ...

Two years ago, Iranian students built Sorena, a white humanoid machine that reportedly wheeled about via remote control. For 2010, robots experts at Tehran University decided to update the creature -- and apparently, channel a little bit of Asimo. Sur...

As much as we love our Google homepage, computer search remains a pretty rudimentary affair. You punch in keywords and you get only indirect answers in the form of relevant web results. IBM doesn't seem to be too happy with this situation and has been...

Hiroshi Ishiguro (or his evil android twin, one) is back in business, and nearly four years after his Geminoid HI-1 startled youngsters everywhere, the Geminoid-F has arrived to consternate the grown-ups. Shown off this weekend in Osaka, Japan, the lifelike lady you see above (pictured left, just in case you were wondering) was designed to [...]

Not satisfied with a simple electric skateboard? It seems like some researchers at Japan's Shibaura Institute of Technology weren't either, and have been busily working on this so-called "robo-skateboard" for the past little while. Like some DIY efforts we've seen, this one uses a Segway-like mechanism to let you ride it by simply pressing down [...]

Man, what is it with Japan, robots, and the elderly? We've been hearing about projects like RI-MAN and Ninomiya-kun for years now. And sure, it looks good on paper -- design an ultra-realistic (or ultra-cute) robot, stick it in a room with the unloved elderly person in your life, and forget about the lot of [...]

Parece que estamos mas cerca del día cuando le pidamos a nuestro robot casero que nos busque algún apareritivo o una cerveza, esto porque Toshiba ha desarrollado un modelo de robot autónomo llamado Wheelie. Este es un robot que tiene dos ruedas estabilizadoras, para permitirle desplazarse sin dificultad sobre superficies planas o con alguna pendiente, [...]

El laboratorio JSK Robotics de la Universidad de Tokyo ha desarrollado un humanoide llamado Kojiro con un sistema musculo esqueletal diseñado para replicar el cuerpo humano. Este cuenta con un sistema de  huesos artificiales, músculos y tendones para crear un robot mas ágil que cualquier otro robot. Los tendones y músculos son replicados utilizando motores [...]

A medida que la tecnología continúa su avance mas obsoletos parecemos los humanos. A este paso en un futuro los robots y humanoides reemplazarán a los humanos en tareas repetitivas y donde el error humano puede ser factor. Por eso ahora en Korea del Sur se está introduciendo el programa R-Learning el cual integra el [...]

Ver figuras en 3 dimensiones no es mas que engañar al cerebro para pensar que una imagen en 2 dimenciones tiene profundidad. Pues que tal si pudieramos producir figuras en 3 dimensiones sin la necesidad de una pantalla? Pues la gente de MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), especificamente los laboratorios de SENSEable City y el [...]