Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 8:36am
About a year ago we saw how Korea is using telepresence robots to teach English to their students, but it seems like the robot teachers have been using their down time in the staff room to take dance lessons.
dancing stories
Friday, April 22, 2011 - 2:56am
Most robots have moves that are pretty jerky looking, but this one called Sarcos looks amazingly fluid and smooth as it raises the roof at Carnegie Mellon University.
Friday, June 26, 2009 - 7:31am
As we mourn the loss of spectacular dancer, frenetic and staccato singer, and professional weirdo Michael Jackson, the gadget world reminisces about a patent Jackson filed in 1993. Remember that supernatural, gravity-defying 45-degree lean Jackson performed with his troupe of...
- Beatbots
- children
- dancing
- expensive
- gallery
- Keepon
- Marek Michalowski
- medical
- music
- robotics
- robots
- singing
- therapy
- toy
- video
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 4:56pm
We met up with Marek Michalowski of BeatBots to find out what's next for Keepon, his world famous dancing robot. Michalowski can control Keepon with a Wiimote to make it bob and dance in response to button presses or...
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 11:54am
Taiwanese electronic manufacturer Ozaki had a curious little character on display: President-Elect Barack Obama. We found him wearing a shirt that said "change" and Ba-rocking out to his iPod One, which played videos of his promotional campaign material including...
- Dance
- dance off
- dancing
- hobby robot
- programming
- remote controlled
- robot
- robot kit
- robotics
- Trossen
- video
- videos
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 11:31am
For a robot — and even for a human — the MechRC has some seriously impressive moves. It can perform pretty much any motion you can program, including head-stands and backward tumbles, and it really maintains its balance well...
Friday, November 7, 2008 - 2:13pm
Think you got some moves? So do these hexapodal 'bots, but they've got six legs to work with. And work they do — it's surprising just how dexterous they can be. There are all manner of hexapods — from...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 4:50am
Looking to start a dance party? Well then, my friend, all you need is this International Dance Party, a machine that has one setting: party. When inactive, it just looks like a big black box. But when its radar detects...
