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PETMAN the latest leggy lovely from Boston Dynamics

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 1:06am

There's a tech firm called Boston Dynamics that is responsible for some pretty freaky military hardware — most notably, the famous BigDog. And this is their latest development: PETMAN, (note to readers: not to be confused with Le Petomane) a...

High-end horological machine writes the time

DVICE Staff

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 6:01am

Baselworld is the watch industry's annual tick-fest that takes place in Switzerland, where all the haute horologists come together to show off their latest gear, all of which has the wow factor. And this time-telling machine from Swiss watchmaker Jacquet...

Hanson Robotics' automated Einstein Head gets a job as a teacher

Kevin Hall

Friday, February 27, 2009 - 12:26pm

Hanson Robotics, led by David Hanson, has been working on an animatronic version of Einstein's head in cooperation with UCSD for years — reminding us of the head-in-a-jar future we're all destined for in Futurama — and the latest iteration...

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