Sony’s Aibo may be no-more but a South Korean company has introduced a robot dog of their own, that just may fill the gap left by Sony quite nicely. DasaTech’s Genibo named for “genius robot” stands 12” high, weighs 3.3 pounds, has a camera built into the end of his nose and understands 100 commands, [...]

Back last summer when I first posted about the Repliee Q1 android, wait I need to explain something real quick. I now realize that calling the Q1 a robot is a mistake, an android is a robot made to resemble a human, in both appearance and behavior. Anyway back to my point, back last summer [...]

Keeping in theme with my last post, I wanted to point out another area of music that has showcased robots, Album covers. Jeff’s Robots has a neat page up that features robots on some famous album covers. I think the allure here is that music which is by its very nature often emotional, contrasts with [...]

I just had to share a music video from one of my favorite bands, Air. What does this have to do with robotics you ask? Well besides the monotonic robot voice used in the song the video has some interesting android like imagery and well it’s just a cool song!
Air – How does it make [...]

Perusing around the web for robot information earlier today, I ran across an article about the ‘Robot Hall of Fame’, hey that sounds cool I thought to myself. The RBH is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University and its inductees span from useful industrial robots to the well known Hollywood variety.
Recently 5 new robots were inducted [...]