Researchers at the Waseda University in Tokyo have developed a robotic rat that aggressively attacks living lab rats in order to make them depressed.
Science strikes again.
(via Wired UK)
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You heard that right. Robot. Space. Jellyfish.
A humanoid hexcopter robot? Oh science, what have you done?
The unceasing march of progress carries us closer to a future of giant robots.
(via Gizmag)
Japan’s obsession with giant robots never ceases to amaze.
(h/t resurrectionjo)
Japanese security company SECOM will soon be renting out this surveillance robot that can patrol an area and take photos of any intruders. Wondering if they’ll call it RoboMallCop.
Eighties-style Robopocalypse.
Kenshiro mimics the body of the average Japanese 12-year-old male, standing at 158 centimeters tall and weighing 50 kilograms.
It also has an unhealthy obsession with 2D females.
(via IEEE Spectrum)
The prospect of robopocalypse would be a lot less frightening if the robots were made from paper.
Japan is raising a robot army to overrun the International Space Station! Okay, it’s just one robot and it’s pretty small. The Kibo robot will study robot-human interactions aboard the space station next year. Still, those astronauts might want to keep a close eye on this little guy.
