Another video from Stockholm University’s Mobile Life Centre in Kista, Sweden. Here we see a family of GlowBots, tiny round robots that run around and connect with each other. When you ‘select’ one robot with a pattern you like by shaking it, the robot goes on to infect other robots with the general pattern, mutating it as the pattern enters the environment. These little guys are about a year old so they’re not quite feeling well but some of them worked correctly and passed their DNA on to other robots. The project is actually based on lizard breeding.”
Sony and Honda may have the most advanced robots in terms of features, but when it comes to working, human-sized robots that truly match the wild images of Japanese anime it’s hard to beat the independently created ALCNON robot. Around the height of a small child, and equipped with one creepy cyclops eye and two giant pincers for hands, the ALCNON robot made a big splash at the recent ROBO-ONE robot battle in Japan.
Displaying the ability to dance and stand up from a sleeping position, the robot is less the cuddly robot most companies want to show you and more the menacing battle droid military experts around the world are hoping to get their hands on. Check out the chilling video of ALCNON destroying his puny enemies here.
