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The Quality Commander Is a Smartphone-Testing Machine, Literally [The Quality Commander Robot Flicks and Taps Smartphone Controls 24 Hours A Day]

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22 Dec 2010

Smartphones go through a whole lot of flicking and tapping and similar motions, and as such, they need a way to be tested before they end up in the hands of all of us, who flick and tap like crazy at our smartphone screens. The Novel Corporation of Japan figured out something that’ll handle the [...]

Introducing Pulito, The Lego MindStorms Sweeping Robot [Pulito Robot Sweeps Floors, Seeks Electricity, Made of Legos]

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16 Nov 2010

You know, when I was a kid, I used to make Lego robots and long for the day when I could get them to sweep the floor for me, instead of me just pushing them across said floor while making beeping noises. Now, this day in which my childhood dreams of machines that would clean [...]

SCHEMA Robot Tackles Multiparty Conversation [SCHEMA Manages to Follow Flow of Conversation From One Person To Another]

In: gadgets

2 Nov 2010

Admittedly, as human beings, talking to two people at the same time isn’t exactly difficult. I once kept four IM conversations going at the same time while calling my grandmother. But for a robot, this is something else entirely, and thus why I’m telling you today about a recent success for the SCHEMA robot. Continue [...]

DARPA Robot Uses A Balloon and Coffee Grounds To Pick Things Up [Strange New Robotics Development Uses Coffee Grounds And A Balloon To Pick Things Up]

In: gadgets

27 Oct 2010

You’ve got to hand it to the folks at DARPA–they’re always looking for something new and interesting to build, which in turn may well make it to us at some point. And now, they’ve figured out a whole new way to get a robot to grab things, and it’s done with two unlikely elements: a [...]

A Lego Robot That Folds Shirts [Lego Mindstorms Robot, Plus Some Cardboard, Folds a Shirt]

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12 Oct 2010

If you were anything like me growing up, you were absolutely enamored with Legos. Why? Because Legos did most anything, that’s why. If you got sick of your Masters of the Universe Air Raider or your Barbie Dream House or what have you, you were still stuck with it. But if you got tired of [...]


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