How's Your Robot? » robots http://howsyourrobot.com Wed, 22 May 2013 18:51:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 the Halfassed Podcast with Gary and John yes the Halfassed Podcast with Gary and John hellorobot@howsyourrobot.com hellorobot@howsyourrobot.com (the Halfassed Podcast with Gary and John) Halfassed Entertainment podcast,funny podcast,entertainment,crazy podcast,best podcast How's Your Robot? » robots http://howsyourrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/halfassed-live.png http://howsyourrobot.com United States weekly BlabDroid robots want to talk to you http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/25/blabdroid-robots-want-to-talk-to-you/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/25/blabdroid-robots-want-to-talk-to-you/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:57:59 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8084 Another extremely cool project found at Kickstarter. These little guys are considered  a “social robot companion” and were originally used at the Tribeca Film Festival to get visitors to open up and chat about things that they wouldn’t say to a human being. Story at gizmag.com: The most obvious feature of the BlabDroid is that it’s made [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/25/blabdroid-robots-want-to-talk-to-you/feed/ 0 Roboy | The Robot Toddler http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/12/31/roboy-the-robot-toddler/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/12/31/roboy-the-robot-toddler/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:20:24 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=6715 Every time I see a toddler I think “man couldn’t we make these things better?” Well finally technology is catching up with us and now we can make robot kids. I wonder if they will still ask dumb questions. I also wonder if they will kill us. Maybe it would be a more pleasant robot death. “Awww look at this little [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/12/31/roboy-the-robot-toddler/feed/ 0 Meet the Robot That Can Catch And Kill You http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/09/06/meet-the-robot-that-can-catch-and-kill-you/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/09/06/meet-the-robot-that-can-catch-and-kill-you/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:12:44 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=5914 Even if you are Usain Bolt, this robot is faster. If you are Usain Bolt then HI! thanks for visiting our site! found at theinterrobang.com The Pentagon’s Cheetah robot, seen below, can now run faster than Usain Bolt. Boston Dynamics tested the robot on a treadmill, and it was able to run at 28.3 mph. [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/09/06/meet-the-robot-that-can-catch-and-kill-you/feed/ 0 The Robot That Can Climb Up Your Pants http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/05/24/the-robot-that-can-climb-up-your-pants/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/05/24/the-robot-that-can-climb-up-your-pants/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 15:16:44 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=4268 I guess we just want to keep building these things even though we know they will kill us all someday. Here is one that could just climb up your pants and slit your throat. I am not sure what the purpose of this type of robot would be. Maybe it could follow you around and [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/05/24/the-robot-that-can-climb-up-your-pants/feed/ 0 Allergic to Robot Bees? http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/17/allergic-to-robot-bees/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/17/allergic-to-robot-bees/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:51:07 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=2116 Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-up Book Harvard University engineers have come up with a production technique inspired by pop-up books and origami, that allows clones of tiny robots to be mass-produced in sheets. Pratheev Sreetharan and colleagues at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory have been working on bio-inspired robots that are about the same size as [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/17/allergic-to-robot-bees/feed/ 1 New Robot is “The Greatest Toy in the Universe” http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/13/new-robot-is-the-greatest-toy-in-the-universe/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/13/new-robot-is-the-greatest-toy-in-the-universe/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:20:42 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=2021 source gizmag.com Inventor claims this robot is “the greatest toy in the universe,” might be right If you’re going to call your invention “the greatest (fill in the blank) in the universe,” you’d better be prepared to show off something truly amazing. Luckily for toy maker, Jaimie Mantzel, he may be onto something with his [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/13/new-robot-is-the-greatest-toy-in-the-universe/feed/ 1 Origami Robots Run Only on Air http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/09/origami-robots-run-only-on-air/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/09/origami-robots-run-only-on-air/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:33:26 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=1926 Powered by nothing more than puffs of air, robots molded from paper and silicone rubber can bend, twist, grip and even lift more than 100 times their weight. The pneumatic prototypes aren’t as advanced as their metallic brothers, and the “soft” robots contain no electronics yet. But their creators, funded by Darpa, imagine applications where [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/09/origami-robots-run-only-on-air/feed/ 0 A Robot Psychic ‘Beep Beep Boop You’re Gonna Die’ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/09/a-robot-psychic-beep-beep-boop-youre-gonna-die/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/09/a-robot-psychic-beep-beep-boop-youre-gonna-die/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:22 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=1905 What jobs WON’T these robots steal from us !? “I can tell you your future! Just listen to whats in my pants. discovermagazine.com As technology marches ever onward, robots have taken on more and more of life’s necessary jobs: heavy lifting, precise mechanical manipulations, and, of course, predicting the future. Peppering the fairs and festivals [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/02/09/a-robot-psychic-beep-beep-boop-youre-gonna-die/feed/ 0 Farmville Robot Style – Japan To Open Robot Farm In Disaster Zone http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/01/23/farmville-robot-style-japan-to-open-robot-farm-in-disaster-zone/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/01/23/farmville-robot-style-japan-to-open-robot-farm-in-disaster-zone/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:04:44 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=1403 One more job that is going to the Robots, soon we will be borrowing money from our Robot neighbors because they will be the only ones with jobs. The Telegraph reports: The project, masterminded by the Ministry of Agriculture, will involve unmanned tractors working the fields of the farm on a disaster zone site spanning 600 acres. Robots will then box [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/01/23/farmville-robot-style-japan-to-open-robot-farm-in-disaster-zone/feed/ 1 Sensics SmartGoggles Deliver Virtual Reality, Giant Robots and Near Total Isolation http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/01/12/sensics-smartgoggles-deliver-virtual-reality-giant-robots-and-near-total-isolation/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/01/12/sensics-smartgoggles-deliver-virtual-reality-giant-robots-and-near-total-isolation/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:26:42 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=822 Finally a post about ROBOTS on a site with the word “robot” in it! Remember when virtual reality was all anyone talked about?   awww thanks WIRED.com you are truly my favorite website on the interwebs LAS VEGAS — Sensics is showing off a prototype virtual-reality helmet at CES. The company calls the Android-powered device SmartGoggles, but it’s more [...]

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