http://www.robotokyo.com Japanese Robot Toys, Robotic Kits & Robot News Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:20:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is becoming increasingly common for countries to now deploy autonomous robotic solidiers to conduct their modern day wars. Today we take a look at 5 types of robots that are helping eliminate the need of a man for the act of war. Skynet can't be too far away? 1. ... http://www.robotokyo.com/5-amazing-robots-that-go-to-war/ Researchers at UC Berkeley used Willow Garage's PR2 robot to fold towels. The UCB programming used some innovative visual scanning techniques, allowing the PR2 to pick up a towel, find its corners, and fold it on a table perfectly. According to the paper presented at the 2010 ICRA (PDF), the ... http://www.robotokyo.com/towel-folding-robot/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/5538289[/vimeo] The Arneis robot arm is equipped with a marker pen, to perform writing and drawing actions.  It can produce several thousand portraits a day (it's not all about clean tech entrepreneurs) and share it's creations with the audience (as seen in the video above). The robot receive input from a camera eye and ... http://www.robotokyo.com/what-robots-can-do-writing-drawing/ The washing-up is piling up in the kitchen, you are too tired to get up and make dinner or even just grab a beer - do not fear! Those crazy Robots from Japan are here. They will take care of your cooking needs, supply you with drinks and even wake ... http://www.robotokyo.com/5-robotic-home-makers-for-lazy-people/   Looking Good! Soundwave, Devastator & Jetfire are all confirmed to be in Transformers 2. http://www.robotokyo.com/first-official-transformer-2-pictures-in-the-wild/ Even though I can't wait to see the new The Day the Earth Stood Still and see the updated Gort terrorize us with his planet love, the film will be overshadowed by the lameness of: Keanu Reeves. No matter how many microbots Gort becomes, his shiny metal coolness will still be ... http://www.robotokyo.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/ The Tokyo toy show is in full swing and we are not there .......aarggh! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0p8AEITCo&NR=1[/youtube] The i-sobot @ 2.28 looks like it is going to be a big deal when released (hype?). The one shown in the video is the standard edition which is available any day now ($258). There ... http://www.robotokyo.com/tokyo-toy-show-2007/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQ8kCgp__c&eurl=[/youtube] Meet HRP-3 Promet Mk-II from Kawada Industries. A robot which will eventually replace many manual jobs performed by humans today. On the market for a cool $3 million he can handle rain, slippery surface, use tools. The math doesn't ad up but still would be very cool to ... http://www.robotokyo.com/japanese-android-goodbye-manual-labour/ Great video on Robot Culture in Japan by TokyoEye. Info on where to buy your robot kits in Tokyo and where to meet up with other robot otaku enthusiasts. Also features quite possibly the coolest arcade robot game you have ever seen. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT4UdQ5k-Ek&eurl=[/youtube] http://www.robotokyo.com/robot-culture-in-japan/ Hasbro are releasing a series of toy electronics that turn into robots known as the 'The Real Gear Transfomers' ala Soundwave style as a tie in with the Transformer Movie (release date July 4th). Some real world functionality wouldn't have gone a miss ie: the camera turning ... http://www.robotokyo.com/real-gear-transformers/