Don’t get too excited. Gibson Guitar is not, in fact, introducing a fully robotic guitar. Or a creepy robot doll that plays a guitar. Nor are they shipping you a handsome (male/female/your choice) robot assistant who will follow you around and tune your guitar for you. Too bad. But they are launching a robotic, self-tuning guitar on December 7. And most importantly, it comes in a limited-edition frost blue paint retro-robotic job, which even as a non-guitarist, I have to admit is super hot. So, what’s robotic about it? Its tuning system:
Read the more »
Tags: Robots, Podcast, Education, Music, Technology, Gibson, Robot Guitar, Yotube Video : Robot Guitar from Gibson, guitar, guitarist dave, guitars, robot, singer songwriter guitarist | 2 Comments »
Baseballbats is excited to introduce you to the world’s first baseball batting robot, created by Frank Barnes of Robocross. This amazing machine uses pneumatics to create 3 distinct movements of a batter - the hips swivel, the shoulders drop and the arms extend - just like a real player.
Read the more »
Tags: Video, Health, Sport, Technology, Baseball, Baseball Batting Robot, Youtube Video, Youtube Video Baseball, robot | No Comments »
In the futuristic cartoon series “The Jetsons,” a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons’ home doing household chores–cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes.
Such a vision of robotic housekeeping is likely decades away from becoming reality. But at MIT, researchers are working on a very early version of such intelligent, robotic helpers–a humanoid called Domo who grasp objects and place them on shelves or counters.
A robot like Domo could help elderly or wheelchair-bound people with simple household tasks like putting away dishes. Other potential applications include agriculture, space travel and assisting workers on an assembly line, says Aaron Edsinger, an MIT postdoctoral associate who has been working on Domo for the last three years.
Read the more »
Tags: Robots, Technology, miniature robot, miniature-robot, prototype-robot, robot, robotic, robots, technology | No Comments »
Presenting a Lego NXT Wii Playing Robot that can bowl a perfect game:
Meet WiigoBot:
You are looking at a Wii Remote mounted on a robotically controlled swing. A second motor is used to trigger the bowling, by first Pressing the A button and left arrow, and then holding down the B button, swinging, and finally releasing the B button.
Read the more »
Tags: Video, Wii, Gaming, bowling, left arrow, left-arrow, lego nxt, lego-nxt, perfect game, perfect-game, robot, video, wii | No Comments »
Just in case you wanted to see any of the Super Bowl ads online, you can check them out right now at the official CBS website, but I am sure they will be on Youtube very shortly. But the big question is, what was your favorite? I personally liked the robot with a soul one for GM and the Chevy Car Wash. Did I miss any?
Tags: Uncategorized, car wash, cbs website, chevy car, gm, robot, super bowl, youtube | No Comments »
