LG Display has announced the development of a newspaper-size flexible e-paper. Despite the fact the market is becoming overwhelmed with tablets coming from various big companies, the folks from LG won’t give up the fight for a different concept which resembles common newspapers rather than easily-portable touchscreen displays. What makes this e-paper special compared to… »

For those of you remembering the robot maid Rosie from the animated show “The Jetsons”, here is a robot that actually resembles her and serves a similar porpoise. After two years of developing, and a lot of technology taken from previous iterations of Mahru robots, the scientists from Korea Institute of Science and Technology came… »

After writing about 3D printers as Mcor Technologies Matrix 3D printer and Festo iFab, and our emphasis of the potential to create similar machines designed meant for other uses beside rapid prototyping, here is a twist from folks in Fluid Interfaces Group (the group that came up with SixthSense). Cornucopia is a personal food factory… »

After their work on Whiskerbot, a group of researchers from the University of Sheffield and the Bristol Robotics Lab has created the SCRATCHBot (Spatial Cognition and Representation through Active TouCh), which uses its plastic whiskers in a sweeping back and forth motion to find its way round, much like a real rat. Many rodents have… »

Hawaii is subject to the high energy costs, partially because of its dependency on non-renewable energy sources. On the other hand, the very isolation from the mainland can also be beneficial for renewable energy sources as wind and solar harnessing, tidal and geothermal energy. The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Lab concept was developed at a… »

The company which designed facial recognition and location awareness systems for some of the best known consumer robotics in history, including the now-departed Sony AIBO robot dog and WowWee’s line of toy robots, introduced their competitor for the robotic cleaning market at CES 2010. Evolution Robotics presented their cleaning robot named Mint which differs from… »

After the huge fall, the folks from Nanosys decided to R&D and focus on some of their more promising projects instead only researching a large number of various nanotechnologies. One of their potential projects is using nanotechnology in order to make more efficient LED lights. Ordinary white LEDs generally consist of a blue light LED… »

The makers of the Actroid robot developed a similarly applied, yet less spooky robot. Kokoro Co. Ltd.’s I-FAIRY robot was unveiled at CES 2010 in Las Vegas last weekend. The “i” in its name stands for intelligent-information-icon, and as its name suggests, it’s an information robot based on the image of a fairy. Unlike the Actroid… »