It’s time to get in the holiday spirit with the December episode of Heads Up!
On this month’s episode, I got a special treat for all you holiday shoppers: my Geek Gift Guide, “Gifts for the Strange!”
Plus, Jonathan is going undercover at Santa’s workshop, Simone is malfunctioning, and Stabatron is missing… Don’t miss the thrilling ending as [...]
Bandit, a “socially assistive robot” developed at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering, could be the first in the next generation of personal trainers. And he looks like he might give human trainers a run for their money.
You know those annoying “motivational” catchphrases that personal trainers throw at you that make you want to punch them [...]
When the designers from the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) wanted to showcase their Unmanned Aerial System software, they decided that using robotic home appliances to recreate the classic video game Pac-Man would be a cool way to do it… And I agree.
RECUV is a university, government, and industry partnership dedicated to [...]
The robot in the video above is skiing. Skiing.
Developed by Bojan Nemec at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, this future gold medalist navigates autonomously using a video camera and sensors to “see”, a GPS sensor to help determine velocity and distance from an obstacle, and an electronic gyroscope that sends information on the movement [...]
Robots.
They’ve long been a sci-fi staple and are well on their way to being much more prominent in our everyday lives. As with other technologies, the way robots are portrayed in film and TV affects our real world view of them. These visions vary from story to story and culture to culture.
Americans generally have [...]
