Tag: Robots
Russian sound artist Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol:: has transformed a dulcimer-like Russian folk instrument into a self-playing robotic device. The instrument can either generate sounds through an algorithm or by reading brainwaves with an EEG headset. Morozov’s brain sounds quite avant garde. ::vtol:: has previously created a device that turns an encoded tattoo into noise, an umbrella that acts as a personal […]
Meanwhile, in Japan, Barack Obama is playing soccer with a robot. The president received a pass from Honda’s vaguely creepy humanoid bot ASIMO today as part of a technology- and security-focused visit to the country, according to the AP. After leaving Japan, he’ll visit South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. […]
Transdisciplinary artist Ivan Henriques collaborated with the scientists at VU University Amsterdam to create the Symbiotic Machine. The project is a prototype of an autonomous bio-machine that harvests energy from photosynthetic micro-organisms. It grazes ponds, canals and rivers, looking for spirogyra. The machine then ingests the freshwater algae and turns it into energy for its next hunt. This bio-solar machine will create a […]
Benjamin Stephan and Christoph Haag created the video above by animating onto various powdered substances — one looks like salt, another like powdered graphite — frame by frame, with a precise mechanical drawing device called a pen plotter. It’s mesmerizing, and I could watch for a lot longer than its 40-second length. The making-of below reveals […]
Jason Barnes, a drummer who lost his arm in a working accident two years ago, now plays with a robotic prosthesis that holds two sticks at once. As PopSci explains, one of the sticks listens to the music that’s playing and generates its own accompaniment on the fly. Using electromyography sensors, one stick on the arm picks […]
The arsty-analytical online project Staplecrops has created an abstract visualization of every geographical location mentioned in the lyrics of artists like Jay-Z and Kanye West. Converting the place names — like “Brooklyn” or “Paris” — into geo-coordinates, they then used a robotic arm holding a light pen to trace them from point to point, creating a lingering […]
If the above video doesn’t make you want to shotgun a beer and punch through a wall, I don’t think I want to know you. Set to a soundtrack of ridiculous, chugging heavy metal guitars, we see engineers demo the Unified Weapons Master suit — a technology that promises to turn mixed martial arts into […]
Luxo shares a name with and bears a striking resemblance to the reading lamp that starred in Pixar’s first feature and no acts as its de facto mascot. But while its animated counterpart bounces around purposelessly with an inflatable ball, this Korean-made robot moves with precision. And with good reason: by the time Luxo is […]
Skryft, by the artist Gijs van Bon, is a robot that slowly, meticulously writes on the ground using sand. In the Dezeen-produced video above, van Bon uses the bot to display the works of the Dutch poet Merel Morre on the streets of Eindhoven. “When you’re writing one [line of] text, another one is going away because […]
So you’ve outfitted your body with all the necessary bioelectronics: pacemakers, cochlear implants, RFID art chips, and the like. Now: how to power it all? Soon, you might consider a new device that converts the movements of your organs into usable electricity, so that those devices can run without a recharge for the rest of […]
