Meet the Robonica Roboni-i, a highly-intelligent robot that fuses interactive, remote-controlled gameplay with advanced robotic technology. Operated wirelessly using a handheld controller and featuring four processors and 16 sensors, Roboni-i can sense and respond to his environment, explore the room on its own, and even engage in games with other Roboni-i units. A great toy [...]

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Get ready to meet a new robot that will give you the creeps.  AIST has been showing off some of their robotics advancements and one robot in particular is raising eyebrows. The Actroid-F, developed by Kokoro Co. Ltd and ATR, mimics the the operator’s facial expressions and head movements in a very realistic way…so realistic, [...]

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A New Jersey company has developed “the world’s first sex robot.” At the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas on Saturday, the negligee-wearing robot said “I love holding hands with you” when it could sense its creator touched its hand. Yes, Roxxxy the robot girlfriend is here. It features special touch sensors at strategic locations [...]

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This is a video clip of the amazing and ingenious talking piano.  The clip isn’t in English, but you get the drift. I think the narrator is probably saying, “Holy shit.  WTF?”

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OK, we’ve featured some pretty amazing robots here on Blippitt (see here for a sampling), but the new OmniZero.9 robot might just take the cake. This amazing robot is basically a real-life transformer. It ate the competition for lunch at the recent 16th annual ROBO-ONE competition in Toyoma, Japan. The OmniZero.9 robot can walk, it [...]

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Think you’re so smart? Do you like to impress your friends by solving Sudoku puzzles at the speed of light? Well, big deal, says Hans Andersson. He’s built a robot that can do that. Andersson lives in Sweden and constructed the robot in his spare time using a robotics kit that he originally bought for [...]

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Yes, it’s true. Toyota has created a humanoid robot that can actually run. Not only that, but when pushed, it can shift its weight to avoid falling over. It’s only a matter of time before you can send one down to the corner store to pick up a gallon of milk, we figure. See the [...]

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In case you missed it this week, Robotic Technology, Inc. has unveiled the new Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot, or EATR for short. EATR is able to “find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically based energy sources).” This seems to have some analysts concerned about the fact that EATR could [...]

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No, sorry, April Fools Day is over.  This is for real. Japan is planning to have a two-legged robot walk on the moon’s surface by the year 2020.  There will also be a follow-up mission involving both astronauts and robots, according to a new plan that was proposed on Friday by a government group. Details [...]

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