Honda demonstrates its new brain-machine interface, with a subject using his thoughts alone to control the ASIMO robot.
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Posts tagged “robôs”
The iCub robots are about the size of three-year-old children, with highly dexterous hands and fully articulated heads and eyes. They have hearing and touch capabilities and are designed to be able to crawl on all fours and to sit up.
Festo Bionic Learning Network 2009 (via FestoHQ)
Bionic projects in the technical automation
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‘Hello, Hal, do you read me? Hello, Hal, do you read me? Do you read me Hal?’
‘Affirmative Dave, I read you.’
‘Open the pod bay doors Hal.’
‘I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.’
‘What’s the problem?’
‘I think you know what the problem is, just as well as I do.’
‘What are you talking about Hal?’
‘This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.’
‘I don’t know what you’re talking about Hal.’
‘I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.’
‘Where the hell d’you get that idea Hal?’
‘Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod, against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.’
‘Alright Hal, I’ll go in through the emergency airlock.’
‘Without your space helmet Dave, you’re going to find that rather difficult.’
‘Hal, I won’t argue with you any more, open the doors.’
‘Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore, goodbye.’
Giles Walker - DJ / Pole Dancing Robots (via CowbagTV)
Fully animated robot pole dancers, and robot DJ. They are made from raw materials found in various scrap yards and controlled, via a PC, using a DMX lighting programme.
