This is the Mechatronic Security Robot by Beatty Robotics. Weighing 45 pounds, it is armored, can move in any direction, can hone in on targets using 8 ultrasonic sensors, and can fire 1,000 projectiles per minute. AND put on a light show while doing it. See for yourself: Mechatron Robot from Robert Beatty on Vimeo. Read [...]
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Homemade armored gunbot finds targets ultrasonically, aims gun accordingly
Posted by Eric on November 25th, 2011
“ROBOPOCALYPSE” Is Coming In 2013
Posted by Eric on September 10th, 2011
Daniel H. Wilson’s book “Robopocalypse,” published on June 7, will be brought to the silver screen by Stephen Spielberg, slated for release on July 3, 2013. Daniel H Wilson authored “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” in 2005. Full article at [movie-moron]
Posted in AI, domestic, entertainment 
Tags: robopocalypse, spielberg, uprising, wilson 
No Comments »Sure this is cute now, but…
Posted by Eric on June 29th, 2010
…maybe less cute when they are 8 feet tall, tracking humans instead of orange balls, and don’t have cute kitteh ears. [BotJunkie]
Shiny penguin, jellyfish, and manta ray robots swim gracefully through the water – and air
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
These machines are not carrying machineguns or flying covert missions over battlefields, but they are amazing to watch. Via [newscientist]
Posted in aquatic, biomimetic, entertainment, flying, video Tags: Festo, jellyfish, manta, penguin No Comments »Supercomputer endowed with linguistic algorithms answers humans’ questions in realtime
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
IBM’s “WATSON” has encyclopedic knowledge and is being taught the nuances of English to the point that it can immediately interpret a question and answer it in a format consistent with the question. It sounds easy enough, every robot from every science fiction tv show for the past 60 years was able to respond [...]
Posted in AI, computers, education, entertainment, pop culture, video Tags: AI, conversation, IBM, linquistic, supercomputer, WATSON No Comments »Attack of the robot dinosaurs!
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
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Posted in AI, biomimetic, biped, education, entertainment Tags: dinosaur, exhibit, kids No Comments »
