Toyota's Violin-Playing Robot - Wow!

They're not just making cars over there in Japan. Toyota and Honda are in the business of developing robots, too. This video show s a demonstration of a robot playing a song on a violin. Incredible. Makes you ask yourself, just how smart and capable do we want these things to be?

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Nao - Robot Behavior Getting More Sophisticated

I think you'll be quite impressed with the Nao robots in this video. They know how to perform tasks, have complicated motor skills and can communicate with each other. Here comes the Robot Revolution.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STTNYNF4lk

C3PO's Robotic Great-Grandmother

Pink Tentacle offers up images of the HRP-4C fashion model robot, a crude walking android-like robot. Developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. They're getting closer all the time.

pinktentacle.com/2009/03/video-hrp-4c-fashion-model-robot/

People Riding The End Of An industrial Robot Arm

Well, here's the latest in amusement-park/simulator-type rides... hooking yourself up to the end of an factory robot arm and having it toss you around randomly. They should probably name it the "hurl-o-matic". I can't imagine the sensations this situation must produce.

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Robotic Snake Demo

Robot designers nowadays like to emulate animal forms from nature. Here is one team's attempt to produce a robotic snake with natural motion and simple intelligence. Hsssss.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJuNe50uuzk

Robotic Cubes That Copy Themselves

Some brilliant engineers at Cornell have developed intelligent machines that are able to copy and repair themselves. Made of individual "smart" modules, the separate elements self-combine into a specific shape. That collection then automatically reproduces itself using other modules available in the environment. A major step forward in the evolution of robots.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyzVtTiax80