Mansun, who blogs at Omocoro.jp, constructed an "auto licking machine" to lick cartoon girls. [via]
State-owned TV network Russia-24 ran a story about an impressive humanoid robot named Boris that wowed attendees at a youth technology conference. Turns out, Boris the Robot was actually a man inside a commercially-available, high-end robot costume. From The Guardian: A photograph published by MBKh Media, the news agency founded by the Vladimir Putin opponent […]
Elowan is a “plant-robot hybrid” that uses its own bio-electromechanical signaling to drive itself around toward light sources. From an explanation by researcher Harpreet Sareen and his colleagues at the MIT Media Lab: In this experimental setup, electrodes are inserted into the regions of interest (stems and ground, leaf and ground). The weak signals are […]
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have switched on CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN), a new AI companion robot built by German space agency DLR, Airbus, and IBM. CIMON is an interface for IBM’s WATSON AI system. From Space.com: Marco Trovatello, a spokesman of the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, told […]
Ever lost music, contacts or priceless pictures during an iPhone upgrade? We’d pay for iMazing 2 just to avoid the hassle of going through that ever again. But the trusty app does more than just store your data. It lets you access them on any device and store them however you need. This all-purpose data […]
Ask any maker: The key to Raspberry Pi’s popularity is its versatility. The mini-computer can help kids learn basic coding, but it’s also a gateway to everything from retro gaming to a full Internet of Things upgrade for your home. If you’re not sure where to start, the Complete Raspberry Pi Course Bundle is the […]
Whether it’s a simple work memo or a dating profile, make no mistake: You are being judged as much on your grammar as on your content. Maybe even more so. If you want to avoid the simple errors that cloud your message, the WhiteSmoke Writing Assistant guards against so much more than simple spelling errors. […]