Tag: Robots
BNJMN’s work is minimal and meditative–a bit like Franz Kline without all the drama, or RETNA’s deconstructed letterforms. In the below mini-documentary, one observer describes the painter’s oeuvre as “[provoking] a lot of emotions–sometimes it’s anger, sometimes it’s happiness or calmness.” “[He is] an artist in control of himself but not of the art that […]
Robots these days. They fight our wars for us. They assist with surgeries. They go on interstellar journeys. They make graffiti. It’s only “natural” that… Believe it or not, sexbots are already a thing: It’s been documented. It’s happening. In a recent survey, Huffington Post and YOUGOV asked readers how they felt about the idea of robotic sexual […]
So you keep tagging the same wall, and, try as you might, your work keeps getting buffed. What do you do? If you happen to be writing on wood, and you happen to have a lot of time on your hands, you might consider the FireWriter by the artist and designer Lucien Langton. Rigged together […]
A team at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has presented a second version of their previous amphibious robot, titled Salamandra robotica. Behold, Salamandra robotica II. While comparing the two, you can see that the new Salamandra now tucks its “feet” in when swimming, and also reacts to the transition between water and land […]
You may remember seeing the BigDog robot created by Boston Dynamics a couple years ago, when they put this video online and instilled fear into humans of a robot’s capabilities, but back then, the BigDog was only good at running. As evidenced from this new video, the BigDog can now throw cinderblocks and maintain its […]
You’ve already got that awesome, high-speed cardboard robot cockroach, so here’s a rodent companion for it to play around with. Beware though–this robot rat is designed with the explicit purpose of making other animals stressed, depressed, and otherwise upset. With the intent of studying how mental disorders affect lab rats, the Japanese researchers programmed this […]
First turbo-speed cockroaches, now sex-crazed moths? LORD HAVE MERCY. In attempt to improve the navigational skills of robots, Japanese researchers devised this utterly disturbing contraption that allows male silkmoths to steer themselves towards female moths. Well, actually just their pheromones. What a tease! The experiment is part of a study on the sensory motor and tracking skills of […]
Japanese artists So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi created the above robot, which randomly creates artwork by moving back and forth while spraying paint at a wall. Designboom explains how the contraption works: The chaotic artwork is achieved through a single automated arm provisioned with a rotary encoder attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. as the […]
Presented without commentary. But wait for the big reveal at the end! This thing is astonishingly precise. […]
3D printers are probably among the space-age-iest advancements of the tech world lately, banging out everything from 3D-printed burritos and presidential candidate dildos to guns and potential cancer cures. But until now, the 3D printer has yet to make its debut in actual outer space. That is about to change. Tech start-up Deep Space Industries […]
