Printing circuitry on self copying robots – “A self-replicating 3D printer that spawns new, improved versions of itself is in development at the University of Bath in the UK. The “self replicating rapid prototyper” or RepRap could vastly reduce the cost of 3D printers, paving the way for a future where broken objects and spare […]
Reminds of the old 80’s coin-op game “Time Traveler” – A central, powerfully inovative development project is the novel input device MRI – Mixed Reality Interface. The new input device MRI – developed by KOMMERZ – opens the use of interactive 3D applications to a broad audience.” – [via] Link. KOMMERZ – Link. Related: You […]
Doesn’t get more NEWS FROM THE FUTURE than this… – “The RI-MAN robot carries a life-sized doll at the Riken laboratory in Nagoya, central Japan. The RI-MAN is a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country’s growing number of elderly.” [via] Link. Related: […]
This robot hitches a ride on people to get around – “The Parasitic Humanoid (PH) is a wearable robot for modeling nonverbal human behavior. This anthropomorphic robot senses the behavior of the wearer and has the internal models to learn the process of human sensory motor integration continuously, thereafter it begins to predict the next […]
Jeff Han gave an amazing talk and demo at Etech – pictured here, LCARS multi-tounch interface! While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch systems enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, allowing for the use of both hands along with chording gestures. […]
The University of Warwick is working on a lot of cool bots to help farmers – A robotic mushroom picker, inflatable conveyor belt & a mega-robot grass cutter, my favorite is the mushroom picker with robo suction cup – [via] Link. Videos of the robots will be available here – Link.
Here’s a little peak of what e-paper / e-ink products that are coming out in the next year or so – [via] Link. If you want to use a DRM-free e-ink reader now, check out our how-tos on modding a Sony Librie and making your own ebooks – Link.
