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Could war end up more and more like video games? Apparently so, with hacked stuff such as the WiFi-controlled Telepresence Tank .

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ROCK BAND GOING TO JAPAN GameIndustry.com, DC -Jun 4, 2008 B), announced today that they will team up with Q Entertainment, a leading Japanese music game designer, to bring the best-selling music videogame Rock Band …

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Who has not driven a Japanese car, eaten sushi or played a Sony play station? These are some thing’s for which Japan has become world famous. Today the country has emerged as a loved destination a…

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It’s been noted many times that digital photo frames–among the most overproduced items in the gadget world–are perennially searching for new ways to differentiate themselves from the ever-growing pack. Some have …

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Robotics have come a long way, but they still often miss that innate, nervous sense of reluctant touch. Intel researchers have achieved something similar with a robotic hand that uses electrolocation to create a robotic hand conform to the shape of an object before interacting with it. Shown at Research@Intel Day, the hand uses fish-like electrolocation to bounce electric fields off of objects and then conform the hand to that shape in real time. They call the dynamic “Pre Touch,” and it could prove useful for configuring robotics before they interact with objects without, say, damaging them or missing the interface completely. We’ve been aware of the technology for some time, but as you can see in the video after the break, Intel finally has something to show, and the results are what can only be described as a strangely nervous robotic hand.

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The best cars are madeinJapan or maybe a BMW from Germany,? said Pat Goeglein, 51, who lives near Los Angeles and works in real estate. ?Those cars last forever.

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ASIMO has already proven itself to be pretty multi-talented, but it looks like it’s now added yet another trick to its repertoire, with a pair of researchers giving it the ability to understand three people speaking at once. That was done with the aid of eight microphones and a specially-designed software program dubbed HARK, which works out where each voice is coming from and isolates it from other sounds. Right now, however, that’s only being used to referee games of rock-paper-scissors, with each individual shouting out their choice at once, but the researchers eventually hope to get ASIMO up to the level of humans’ ability to listen at a cocktail party, although they admit that is still a “long way” off.

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Robots do all sorts of things, but climbing walls seems to be a goal engineers can’t live without. Meet the Waalbot which is fitted with gecko-like micro fiber feet that can stick to vertical and ceiling surfaces. In addition, the legs are wheeled with three feet that can rotate and cruise over surface curvature and even grab onto other walls at right angles. Unlike other wall-climbing robots, this one is small and light, and given its diminutive size, capacity varies depending on the surface type and size of feet. Using a PIC microcontroller and wireless controls along with batteries, Waalbot is designed to be completely autonomous and untethered.

[Via Engineering TV]

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