Pleo The Interactive Robotic Dinosaur
Pleo is a cunningly cute robotic toy that has a very futuristic feel about it. For better and/or worse, you can tell that some envelopes are being pushed here. The baby dino can feel touches, knows when it is upside down, and can see... [more]
Pleo is a cunningly cute robotic toy that has a very futuristic feel about it. For better and/or worse, you can tell that some envelopes are being pushed here. The baby dino can feel touches, knows when it is upside down, and can see with a small camera in his snout. Supposedly it can hear but apparently not very well.
Prosthetic, robotic ‘Smart Hand’ has feelings, too
Researchers in Italy and Sweden have spent the last ten years developing what they call the "Smart Hand," a prosthetic hand which enables feeling in its fingertips. The hand -- which was recently wired up to a test patient through a surgical procedure -- has four motors and forty sensors which are linked directly to the brain . In the surgery, the nerve endings of the patient were linked up to receptors in the hand, which allows for feeling in the fingertips of the hand, even though the hand is not really a part of his body
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