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Posts Tagged ‘baby’

Picture(s) of the Week: Robot with Giant Baby Head FAIL

Via Botjunkie, here are some seriously creepy photos of a robot baby called Diego-San from the November 2009 edition of Kokoro News…

…Yeah. This is a horror movie waiting to happen.

Pulp Science: Robots Are Among Us

Movies like I, Robot and A.I. have shown us possible futures of human/robot society. Here are two videos that demonstrate how far we’ve come in the first decade of the 21st century to achieving a world of robot integration.
The first video is a three month old baby meeting a Crabfu swashbot for the first time. [...]

Picture of the Week: Daddy Soldier Becomes Robot for Son’s Birth

Via BotJunkie:
An RP-7 robot, normally used to allow physicians to interact remotely with patients, allowed Army Staff Sgt. Erik Lloyd (stationed in Iraq) to interact (sort of) with his family and 7 day old son at a hospital in Texas. Lloyd had full control of the robot’s movements and cameras, and was able to communicate [...]

Weiner Dog + Robot + Baby = Cuteness Overload

Via BBGadgets:
This dog is so well trained, it looks like he could play catch with the robot tennis launcher for days on end…

Baby Robot Even Freaks Me Out

It may not be a Gerber baby, but the iCub could change the history of robotics, and the world along with it.
Researchers at the University of Plymouth will work with the 3ft. humanoid robot and language development specialists for the next four years, in a groundbreaking effort to see if they can teach the iCub to [...]