This is stanley. He is a volkswagon toureg and he can drive with out the help from any humans. obviously he had help from humans when he was being made. Stanley can sense the road and has a laser scanner system that allows him to sense whether or not the road ahead of him is…

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All it needs is your Love. SYKE! It’s a Robot Plant that incorporates audio sensors that reacts to the tone of voice. It also incorporates muscle wires for movement corresponding to the audio input. As shown in the video, it’s good for psychological relief. It runs on batteries.HUG TREES!

 box of men is a display of six ventrilloquist puppets on a large flat panel screen.  the puppets talk to each other about an “unknown crime”. the conversation is not pre-recorded but run by a computer program that assigns each puppet a voice. the conversation can go on and on until the program is termenated….

the telepresence picnic is a set of two identical electronic picnic sets (food, utencils etc.). they are to be set up in two different goegraphical locations in a network hotspot. the two picnic sets are wirelessy connected to each other. when you move something on one set it causes that item on the other set…

The double taker, created by Golan Levin, Lawrence Hayhurst, Steven Benders, and Fannie White, is an eight foot long mechanical arm that is meant to look like “an enormous inchworm or an elephant’s trunk”.  Installed above the entrance to a building, it moves and follows passersby with its eye as they walk past.  The goal…

Wooden Model of a 3D MRI Scan Neil Fraser, a software engineer at google, took 9 cross sections from a MRI scan and glued them to wooden blocks to create a 3d representative model. In the end is a collection of 60, 1 inch cubes, which have 266 internal faces which feature a sqaure slice…

This robot is a life-saver. It is both a war-robot and a fire fighter, it rescue people who are injured when trapped in smoke and transports them to safety, by carrying them in a position that will not hurt them. This robot is able to pick up really heavy loads, so that means that even…

HackaWii presents the Rovio, a spy robot on wheels, controlled by a WiiMote from anywhere with an internet connection. The Rovio can take a picture, move, strafe, and turn in all normal directions. The WiiMote can also tell Rovio to snap a picture or return to its charging station. Rovio searches for two infrared beams…

In the midst of robots and other complex machinery, this ball intrigued me. This large, metal sphere is not merely interesting as a sculptural piece, it moves around the area it is in. Whenever a person’s presence is felt by this ball, sensors triggers a response. This response is its random movement that its uncontrollable…

This flower music is an interactive piece which makes sounds when people touch and swing the flowers. The Artist utilizes the electromagnetic wave to sense the movements between the people and the waving flowers. The center of flowers have installed LEDs which also connect to the sensors that are able to blink when the flowers…