"Cocorobo" is Sharp's new Robot Vacuum Cleaner that features speech recognition which allows it to be controlled by voice, as well as using its buttons or the remote control. Cocorobo can also say simple greetings! "For example, if you use Cocorobo every day, or speak to it every day, it gets in a good mood. Depending on how it feels, its words and movements vary a lot, so you can gain a feeling of closeness with it. Regarding Cocorobo's learning capability, we're planning upgrades that will Read more [...]

"Robots have been singing for a minute. But the HRP-4C doesn’t just sing, she performs. Watch her chirp the lyrics to her song, work the crowd, and shake her stuff in sync with her back up dancers. It’s pretty amazing." http://my.opera.com/igun/blog Here's a must see video: "The divabot, as she’s being called, is being developed at Japan’s Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. She uses special software to precisely mimic a human singer’s head Read more [...]

This is about 3 years ago... However, it's still awesome! It's when the movie (based on the novel) "I Robot" is no longer science fiction! Her maker, Japan-based robot maker Kokoro, says that she is supposed to give patients a heightened sense of security. Actroid-F is very realistic, but actually, she is pretty creepy, too – as you can see in the video embedded below (in which she’s replicating the operators facial expressions and body movements, this is 3 years old however...). Actroid-F, Read more [...]

للفنون أنواع فمنها ما تستغرق أمامه فترة حتى تفهمه وتدرك الجمال الكامن فيه، ومنها ما يدخلك قلبك (ومعدتك في حالتنا هذه!) فترى فيه الموهبة والإبداع: هذا ما شعرت به لأول وهلة عندما رأيت ما فعلته “ساكوراكو كيستا” بفن البنتو وهو طريقة يابانية تقليدية لتعبئة الطعام: بدأت ساكوراكو Read more [...]