defrog: (robot love)
defrog ([personal profile] defrog) wrote2009-09-28 04:44 pm

RIDING THE ROBOT

I get press releases.

Sometimes they’re not what you think they are.

Like this one from Honda talking about their new “Personal Mobility Device”. I thought they meant a mobile phone or a netbook or something.

Turns out they meant a robotic unicycle based on its ASIMO robot technology.

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Cute, but when it comes to robot tech and mobility, I’m more impressed by this “Miruko” wearable robot eyeball with face-recognition software that can be linked to an iPhone for potential “navigation, surveillance, and augmented reality entertainment applications”.



Eyeball in my martini,

This is dF