Four Ukrainian students have created gloves that allow speech- and hearing-impaired people to communicate with those who don’t use or understand sign language. The gloves are equipped with sensors that recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone, which then converts the text to spoken words....
50 Hummingbird Quadrocopters Used to Perform Unique Light ShowGuests and citizens of the Austrian city of Linz were able to witness 50 lights in the sky. Those were not aliens as some might think, but fifty quadrotors that were lifted into the air to present a synchronized light show. The...
From giant mechanical jellyfish and manta rays to birds, the field of robotics is quickly moving up the evolutionary chain. In response to DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has produced a bot that mimics the motions of monkeys. The RoboSimian has been designed for search and rescue missions, and like its living counterparts, it can swing...
Finally, the street signs have joined in! Breakfast NY have created Points, digital street signs, that look normal at first glance. The signs are complete with a post, and three signs, any of the signs can rotate 360 degrees in either direction at the push of a button and the messages...
Researchers at Toshiba’s Akimu Robotic Research Institute were thrilled ten months ago when they successfully programmed Kenji, a third generation humanoid robot, to convincingly emulate certain human emotions. At the time, they even claimed that Kenji was capable of the robot equivalent of love. Now, however, they fear that his...
