Japan is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. The Japanese aren't having babies, and the country won't accept immigrants to help bolster the population.
Japan: Robot Nation looks at a uniquely Japanese solution.
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posted by Extopalopaketle
on Sep 21, 2009 -
55 comments
ECCEROBOT - Embodied Cognition in a
creepy looking Compliantly Engineered Robot, an anthropomimetic robot whose plastic bones and joints imitate the body structures of the fleshy ones.
posted by Artw
on Aug 18, 2009 -
17 comments
Introducing the
Gamelatron, "the world's first and only fully robotic gamelan". Brought to you by the Brooklyn-based League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, affectionately known as
LEMUR.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Jan 18, 2009 -
29 comments
"The common point of all my characters is that they aren’t nice, [they’re] either nasty or mean. They all have a personality with
good and
bad sides."
Olivier Bucheron creates striking alien and robot meanies.
Zamak....
(some images mildly nsfw)
posted by Kronos_to_Earth
on Oct 1, 2008 -
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"Double-Taker (Snout)" by Golan Levin with Lawrence Hayhurst, Steven Benders and Fannie White "...deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant's trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity...."
Googly Eyebot. (
via)
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posted by Kronos_to_Earth
on Aug 13, 2008 -
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"What we've invented is a way to induce charges on the wall using a power supply located on the robot....The robot carries with it positive and negative charges, and when the walls sees these charges it automatically generates the opposite charge. The robot can then clamp onto those charges." Scientists have
robots climbing the walls.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth
on Jul 8, 2008 -
29 comments
Phoenix is sort of a robotic spider, except for the minor detail of only having six legs. It's self-contained, and remotely controlled using Bluetooth. The movements are calculated using an Excel spreadsheet, and it moves
beautifully. (
via)
posted by Class Goat
on Mar 13, 2008 -
38 comments
Many business owners have struggled with crime in their communities and the impact that can have on their business- but when the police have their hands full, sometimes your complaints just fall through the cracks. One Atlanta bar owner has taken matters into his own hands by
building a crime-fighting vigilante robot.
posted by baphomet
on Feb 26, 2008 -
70 comments
