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This YouTuber Gave Alexa Attentive Eyes and a Moving Mouth, but It’s More Creepy
Science fiction promises us all sorts of sentient automatons once artificial intelligence becomes a part of our daily lives — not hockey puck-sized speakers. Determined to breathe more life into Amazon’s smart assistant, Thomas Burns hacked together a CRT TV and a pair of moving eyes to make Alexa feel more engaging — or look…
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The Most Useful (and Useless) Consumer Robots of the Last Four Decades
The history of consumer electronics is dotted with failures, like the vastly superior Betamax tape format, or 3D TVs, but one device that’s been especially difficult to convince consumers to buy has been robots. The technology at our disposal still hasn’t caught up to what everyone expects a bot to be able to do for…
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Vector, The Little Robot That Could(n’t Do Much) Is Back From The Dead
Vector, a tiny desktop companion robot that was both surprisingly endearing and unsurprisingly useless, met its demise earlier this year when its creator, Anki, ran out of money and shut down. But despite the robot failing to justify its $US250 ($360) price tag, it apparently has its fans, and Vector is being brought back from…
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The Gizmodo Office Got A Robot Sidekick For The Day
We love a bit of extra help here in the Gizmodo Australia office, so we were pretty excited to welcome Vector the robot to the team. The latest innovation from Anki, Vector is sure to be on a lot of Christmas wish lists this year, so we set him the ultimate test of surviving a…