Ars Technica: New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability: Huge, important story from last week and NO MENTIONS on the New York Times or any other major news outlet. Shameful. Anyway basically there are now House and Senate bills that would limit your exposure to litigation if you make a good-faith effort to determine […]
Category Archives: robots
Rise of the robots
April 29, 2008 – 2:44 pm
Modular robot reassembles when it’s kicked apart: everywhere on the internet today. Skynet rises. Seriously though, how long until these modules are itsy-bitsy? See also the NeoCube.
New BMW M1: sexxxxxxy. The body looks like two layers, as if the black underneath is cracking through, trying to escape. And check the I Ching rims! In other […]
What’s up Monday
April 28, 2008 – 2:49 pm
Kitsune Noir: House Uc by Miyahara Architect Office: Great use of concrete. I wonder what’s on the roof.
Wired: Deutsche Bank Loves Shai Agassi’s Plan to Bring Us EVs (Electric Vehicles): “Bean counters at Deutsche Bank absolutely love Shai Agassi’s plan to sell electric vehicles like cell phones and think it could be a “paradigm […]
Galatea and Repliee
September 2, 2005 – 11:47 am
Two new links in the sidebar - to David Byrne and Insert Credit, the Pitchfork of video game sites. Their thematic joint - android girls. On August 17 (you gotta scroll down - no permalinks) David posted about Hiroshi Ishiguro’s android woman and compared them to Pygmalion and Galatea. I want to address Ovid’s […]
Absurd thought
June 10, 2004 – 11:02 am
When robots become easier to build, will people go to android school to learn how to design people as we now go to architecture school to learn how to design buildings? No - they’ll be like computers, mass produced but configurable. Funny how houses have resisted mass customization for so long. Whither a ‘Dell’ for […]
Robots.
December 23, 2003 – 9:25 pm
Totally nice Nike robot soccer commercial. Looks like CGI, but who can tell? Link via Freshness.
I don’t think any company has been so successful in buying the cool for so long. Co-opt, co-opt, co-opt.
Robot News
October 25, 2003 – 7:34 am
Finally, Sony’s QRIO (nee SDR-4X) is coming out. No pricing yet. Picture via AllRobots.com, a great personal robotics blog.
I love robots.
7 April 2003
March 25, 2003 – 9:08 am
Robodex 2003 is on, and they’re celebrating the creation date of Astro Boy. Sony has a new, more powerful version of their bipedal bot, the SDR-4X II, and lots of other stuff is going on. Wish I was there!
Bluetooth robots
March 17, 2003 – 8:11 am
I don’t even know why I blog tech stuff with Gizmodo around. Anyway, here’s another stolen link: Seiko Epson Develops Power-Saving, Bluetooth-Controlled Micro Robots. Pretty cute, for a motor with wheels. What would you use one of these puppies for? Well, if they were $1/each…