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A modder known as DJ Sures transformed an old Wall-E toy into a robot that acts a lot like real thing. The updated version features a camera, voice recognition, face recognition and object tracking.
As you’ll see in the video after the break, it’s also completely adorable.
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YouTuber tiburciod modified his daughter’s Wario with a bike bell, some green leds, a servo, and smoke machine from an RC tank then set it up with an Arduino and an applet on his Mac so that it springs into action whenever his online store makes a sale.
If only he could have made a farting Wario with the smoke coming out of his butt.
See it in action after the break.
Would you rather spend $350,000 on a nice house in the country or buy a 20-foot animatronic triceratops that “responds to onlookers with lifelike reactions and fortissimo bellowing”?
From the product page:
Motion-activated cameras installed into each eye work in unison with customized interactive software that enables the Cretaceous creature to recognize multiple subjects’ facial features. Once identified, subjects’ tracked movements trigger a set of responses: it sways its tri-horned head right, left, up, and down, stomps and scuffs its right forelimb, and opens its jaws while growling–all powered by digitally controlled servos and silent, pneumatic air-activated cams. Its exterior is crafted by professional sculptors from polyurethane foam and textured silicone over a steel and aluminum frame, replicating the beast’s massive horned frill, powerful hindquarters, and tapered tail with convincing realism. The rumbles that issue from a hidden 1,000-watt speaker are based on paleontological approximations of what sounds the original 67 million year-old saurian might have vocalized.
Yes, I believe the choice is clear. I’m going to spend my $350,000 pretending to be a triceratops for 17,500 hours.
Product Page ($350,000 via TGH)
We’ve seen plenty of traffic cone monsters in our day, but Safetyformer is the equivalent of an Autobot hall monitor.
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The Angry Birds have come to the conclusion that a slingshot is a primitive weapon, and they will need more advanced technology as their battle over pigs rages on into game after game after game…after game.
So they have outfitted themselves with robot bodies.
Actually, these bizarre robots with Angry Birds heads turned up at the recent Beijing High-Tech International Expo. They are connected over a Wi-Fi network and can be controlled via smartphones. Products that take advantage of this technology are slated for release this summer.
Check out the robots in action in the video after the break.
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Industrial robot company Yasakawa took two of its manufacturing robots and forced them to fight to the death in a lightsaber battle for the amusement of the crowd at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai.
Check it out after the break.
Japan is no stranger to creepy robots, but if they are trying to emulate human babies with the Pneuborn-7II and Pneuborn-13 robots, they might want to go back to the drawing board. I don’t picture these robotic monstrosities laughing adorably on viral YouTube videos anytime soon. Seriously, it would have turned the bubble eating dog into one full minute of horror.
Using a sophisticated set of pneumatic muscles, researchers at Osaka University designed Pneuborn-7II to mimic the movement of a seven-month-old while Pneuborn-13 mimics a a 13-month old walking. The baby bots are set to debut at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai later this week.
Check out the walking version after the break.
PC gamers can get Portal starting today from Steam (console gamers might have to wait until the 21st, but you can still get $5 off and a $20 Amazon credit if you order now).
To celebrate, Legohaulic crafted these fine-looking Atlas and P-Body robots. You can also see some multi-colored turrets after the break.
Remember that epic Megatron tank build by Yang Junlin aka “Steel Legend” (or Legend of Iron)? Well, that’s not the only scrap metal Transformers sculpture he’s been working on. In fact, he has a veritable army of bots—some of which are pictured after the break.
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