I met Jed Berk and his wicked Blubber Bots at the Reboot 2007 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Had good fun interactig with them via bluetooth and touch. It’s amazing how quickly you begin to relate to these machines as “living” entities.
According to creator Jed Berk (who will also help save your pet from drowning), [...]

I am extremely excited to break even more good news today; Pleo pre-orders started today!!
After quickly converting the dollar price to danish kroner (DKK) I immediate went to order it, BAM!!! I was hit by a brick in the head, when reading this:
We ship to addresses in the United States.
Oh no!! Pleo is [...]

Good news robotics freaks! Today NASA JPL released a version of their robotics framework for the public.
CLARAty is the Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy. The first release of its software, version 0.10-beta, is now available publicly at http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov.

CLARAty is an integrated framework for reusable robotic software. It defines interfaces for common [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Junior, the robot Volkswagen, passed its basic driver’s test here Thursday.Now comes the hard part: a race on mock city streets that will raise the bar for artificial intelligence in the 21st century.
A team of officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) visited a parking lot here next to Google headquarters [...]

“What do you get when you combine a robot and a chair? The Hubo FX-1 chairbot, of course. In what is perhaps my favorite robot design yet, this giant chair with legs looks like it came out of some ridiculous 80’s sci-fi movie or something, but it’s very, very real. HUBO FX-1 is two meters [...]

“The New York Times is running an interesting article about how human memory works and the theorized adaptive nature of forgetfulness”.
From the article,
“Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a [...]

“Computer scientists at the University of Southern California USC have developed DEFACTO, a training program which uses artificial intelligence AI to help firefighters practice simulated emergency situations. The system is currently used by the Los Angeles Fire Department. DEFACTO has committees of AI agents which can create disaster scenarios with images and maps seen in [...]