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Photos: WIRED Holiday Store 2009 in NYCLast night we attended the grand opening of the WIRED Holiday Store 2009, which is open November 21st through December 27th both in the form of an online store as well as a physical location in Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Welcome to the Fifth Annual Wired Store. Here, you’ll find all ... |
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HUBO will tear you limb from limbHUBO Walking! HUBO Taichi! HUBO with sword! HUBO aiming for your heart and lungs! This clever Korean robot won’t kill you (yet) but it does move in a surprisingly life-life fashion. Seriously: how far are we until we’ve hit Surrogrates territory (an actually OK movie, by the way). ... |
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LaserMotive finally wins NASA's Elevator:2010 Beam Power Challenge, climbs at 3.9 meters/second (video)NASA has been trying to find someone that could meet its rigorous Space Elevator demands since 2005 and, after some notable failures, we finally have a winner. A company called LaserMotive has won the Beam Power Challenge, tasked with creating a laser-powered robot able to lift a weight on a cable ... |
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Robot Can Fall Off a 28m Building and Keep Running (Video)Have you ever tried to catch a running cockroach? They’re fast little suckers, and resilient too, which is why scientists at the University of California Berkeley modeled their latest robot after them. ... |
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'Astro Boy' is part robot, part mehI'd recommend waiting for the DVD, then watching it with one eye while you do something else. ... |


