GeekAdviser.com » Robot http://geekadviser.com Latest Technology, Gadgets, Software and all things Geek Blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Control an AR.Drone with Microsoft Surface Video http://geekadviser.com/2011/01/control-an-ar-drone-with-microsoft-surface-video/ http://geekadviser.com/2011/01/control-an-ar-drone-with-microsoft-surface-video/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:26:14 +0000 admin http://geekadviser.com/?p=3847

Looks all Scifi controlling an AR Drone with the Microsoft Surface. All you need is a $7600 Microsoft Surface and $300 for a Drone as well as some nifty software that is not available yet. See video below.

Microsoft Surface and Flying Drone

Microsoft Surface

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Fujisoft’s PALRO robot the personal concierge has a female voice with voice recognition, can take pictures and send them to your phone or computer and can also read you the weather. The robot is powered by an Atom Z530 processor with 4GB flash storage running on Ubuntu.

The PALRO is available for educational and research institutions for about $3,600.

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Robot plays tennis with guys help. Pretty cool video of man making motions that allow robot to mimic his movements.

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Kobe’s Wakamatsu Park is going to build their very own life-sized Tetsujin (also known as Gigantor). Gigantor will be 60 feet tall and weigh 50 tons. Tetsujin will be on permanent display starting in October.

tetsujin

See the Video Here of the Construction.

Via:Gizmodo

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Walle Transformer Toy. Unfortunatly it is a one off toy. Disney would probably lose their minds if these were mass produced these without getting their royalties.


walle-transformer

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