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…

Les Pissenlits – The Dandelions – is an interactive installation which features a projection of dandelions that have gone to seed. Viewers can blow on the screen, and the dandelion seeds fly away, just like real ones! Edmond Couchot and Michel Bret are French artists who both teach at the school of the Arts and…

ROCK-IT is one of the most intresting robots. It is basically do what other human can do, like walk dance, talk. This 9 feet tall ROCK-It enteratin human being in everywhere. It has lots of digital voices, whcih he use while talking with the crowd. Most people love to talk to rockit. He dance on…

This clip shows the best of the robot short films is interesting to say the least. It is about robots. It is about short films. It is about robots in short films. It is about short films with robots in them. What more could you ask for if you’re taking a responsive arts class. It’s…

So these guys have both too much time and too much money on their hands. This page and video describe the process of reprogramming an industrial robot to hurl bowling balls set ablaze into the desert night. It is both hilarious and terrifying. The juxtaposition between the intelligence required to successfully execute such a task…

These rickshaw robots are so efficient, especially in the overpopulated China…NOT, hahaha i mean who the hell would wanna sit in a bouncy-ass, rickety-ass, not smooth at all ass rickshaw? It looks unbearable. What a waste of time, the next step is to make the ride a smoothe one. I give it two thumbs down…

Did you enjoy watching the Matrix trilogy and its special effects ? If so, then you’re in luck. There’s a continuation, a continuation to those special effects that is. People at Toshiba hired an ad agency with its very own “Matrix effect” variant called “timesculpture” to plug Toshiba’s XDE technology. The company created a circular…

i am generally a big fan of the Rube Goldberg-esque machine and this is no exception. This combines my loves of mechanistic process and music wonderfully. It’d only be more amazing if it were real.