It seems Toshiba just can’t get enough of making robots. Now they have developed a universal remote buddy, which is pretty much a robot. He picks up on IR signals from remote controls and learns them. By asking you what you were doing when you used the remote he adapts to all your IR devices. From what I understand you can tell him what to do (after he has learnt it) by talking to him and he’ll swing out one of his cute little arms, which has an IR transmitter built in, and aim it at whatever gadget you want to control.

More about this at Gizmodo

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A friend of a friend who has always been an electronics freak has his own website now. You can see some of his gadgets he’s built and noise generators.

Click the image to go to his site

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Oh boy, what to say about this article. I don’t know whether to find this guy extremely sad or respect him for his choices and balls to come out in public and tell people about them.

I don’t know how intelligent this robot’s programming is, but there’s a few things I found remarkable:

1 - It dumped him

2 - It complains about too kinky sex

3 - It knows it’s a robot

4 - It helped him to stop watching porn and go to church

Read the whole story

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Check out this very nice little gallery of small “robots” made from common (metal) junk. This is seriously inspiring me to make my own little robotic creations which will help me take over the world!

Example (click image for full gallery):

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