Robot For Autism: Helps Autistic Kids
By: Tina Chubb | Posted: March 9, 2011Filed under: Alternative News
It wasn’t that long ago that 4-year old Eden Sawczenko – who has autism – would back away when another little girl tried holding her hand, or go stiff if they tried hugging her. However, that doesn’t appear to be…
How To Automate Your Home: Gadgets That Help
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: September 29, 2010Filed under: Gadgets
We are almost at a point when technology is moving at a faster pace than our minds can cope with – well some of us. We can make things what we once thought was impossible into a working reality, but…
Teaching Robots: Engage and Teach Simple Skills
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: July 11, 2010Filed under: Alternative News
After following Sci-Fi for many years, it was obvious to me that we would one day see teaching robots, which would teach our children simple skills or us. This could be used for children with special needs, like autism.
Glider Robots: Gulf Oil Spill real-time location map
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: June 20, 2010Filed under: Gadgets
Those tracking the Gulf Oil spill have been trying a number of devices to try and keep ahead of the game by keeping an eye on where the oil spill is – the latest device are Glider Robots. These offer…
Robotic hand controlled by thought
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: December 3, 2009Filed under: Alternative News
Losing an arm must be one of the hardest things to come to terms with, in the past you may have to live without the use of an arm for the rest of your life; today this is not the…
Robots love Barack Obama
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 5, 2008Filed under: Gadgets
Barack Obama seems to be loved by so many people of all walks of life and race, but he was getting support from an unlikely source, that’s right, a robot. If you were thinking of voting for John McCain, then…
HAL robotic suit rental: be like Iron Man
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: October 8, 2008Filed under: Gadgets
Back in 2005, Tsukuba University professor Yoshiyuki Sankai designed Hal-5, which was a robotic suit. This was just the start of his work, which would hopefully allow people to overcome being handicap. It now looks as though HAL is finally…
VIA Pico-ITX at the Heart of Modern Robots
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: August 22, 2008Filed under: Alternative News
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today showcased VIA EPIA Pico-ITX-based entertainment robots at the Taipei International Robot Show (TIROS), being held on 21-24 August at the World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan. With…
Rat’s brain used in robot to help Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: August 15, 2008Filed under: Gadgets
Love them or hate them rat’s could end up changing the lives of thousands of people who suffer from Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. Researchers at the University of Reading in England have developed a small robot that is controlled by the…
Nintendo Wii Controller System to operate real military robots: Is this good for warfare?
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: March 28, 2008Filed under: Alternative News, Nintendo Wii
Strange but true and quite scary really but the Nintendo Wii controller system will be used in real life warfare to operate military robots. All I hope is that the men and women in the military do not play the…
Vstone Black Ox robot called Gigantor should entertain: Video action
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: March 13, 2008Filed under: Gadgets
We all love robots and the more sophisticated the better, Vstone Black Ox robot is called Gigantor and the original stands 7,000 feet tall, but come on there is not way you can have a robot that size in your…
WowWee Dragonfly Robot vs. Real Hawk
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: February 22, 2008Filed under: Gadgets
With robots becoming more lifelike everyday it looks like hawks are not able to tell the difference, there have been reports that 45 people have been attacked by hawks as they try to take their WowWee Dragonfly Robot
SEGATOY Robot Dog: responds to touch, voice commands and tracks you
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: February 11, 2008Filed under: Gadgets
This robot dog may not have an LCD display or WiFi, but it does look pretty cool. The SEGATOY robotic dog can respond to your touch, voice commands and it will even track you as you walk around. The SEGATOY…
