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A UK model maker has brought sci-fi to life by creating his own fully functional Chappie robot. Mohammad Hunter from Herefordshire, England showcased his incredible handmade replica from the movie ...
While there are many potential uses for soft-bodied robots, the things are still typically only built in small experimental ...
He tells us how he gets into character and why he enjoys the playing the baddie! Chappie is about a robot who begins to think and feel for himself, we talk to Brandon about robots and whether or not ...
In Chappie, a high-tech police robot gets a software upgrade —consciousness. Kidnapped by quirky gangsters who raise him like their own, Chappie learns about love, violence, and what it means to ...
Teddy Warner founded Intempus with a mission to make robots more expressive so that bots and humans can communicate better.
A hot potato: Recent efforts by tech companies to develop increasingly human-like autonomous robots have invited endless comparisons to the Terminator films. While the criticisms are usually made ...
How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on wheels for my experiments’ perspective.
With YouTuber subscribers of over 137K, Cogley, also a mechatronics engineer, has a special interest in animatronics.
Nearly two decades before the Roomba, a domestic robot named RB debuted in 1983.Designed to assist with household tasks, RB could vacuum, answer the phone and even grab drinks from the fridge.
The company insists that its new Vulcan robot will be used ‘alongside’ existing warehouse workers. The company insists that its new Vulcan robot will be used ‘alongside’ existing warehouse ...
In 2017, a robot named Sophia was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, a dubious move on many fronts. Real human women had only earned the right to drive a car in the country a month earlier ...