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The Most Impressive Bank You’ve Ever Seen, Complete with Butler Robots!

Santander banking group in Spain is introducing their State of the Art financial campus, complete with an interactive wall and an interactive model of their campus that provides Augmented Reality (AR) information on the buildings’ functions, architecture, and even the art contained within.

Nao (the robot) Performs a Scene from Star Wars

Nao has become a strong contender in the small biped robot world. And now, he has even performed scenes from the Star Wars saga:

Stay tuned… Lord of the Rings is next!

Twitter Lists are an easy way to follow people (and other entities) on Twitter about a specific topic. If you’re interested in a Twitter List on robots and general robotics information (Tweets), we recommend the Robotics list from @viewlist. You can get the Robotics Twitter List here:

http://twitter.com/viewlist/robotics

This is not exactly a robot – but its close enough and very interesting.

Intelligent Information Lab at Northwestern University has designed a chatbot that can create a story line (report) out of existing stats available for any sporting game. By analyzing the data, StatsMonkey is capable of reporting on the game without the need for human intervention.

Story via Courant Report.

If you’ve ever cleaned a rain gutter – or seen someone do it – then you can appreciate the danger in climbing up a ladder for such sustained period of time and doing that kind of work.

The iRobot Looj is designed to save dads and anyone else who does clean gutters from just such danger.

You simply place Looj in the gutter, climb back down to the safety of earth, and use the remote control to move the robot back-and-forth in the gutter. Using a powerful auger, Looj cleans your gutters and throws the dead leaves on the ground… which also saves your drain pipes from getting clogged.

Check out this video of Looj in action:

Haile is capable of detecting the beat and then jamming with real life musicians.

The robot learns in real-time what the beat is and then can improvise
on its own.  it can also do complex patterns, such as 9/5 9/4, that no
known human drummer can, thus paving the way for new forms of music.

Here’s Haile’s website.

Researchers at CMU’s Robotics Institute have developed a new novel way to get a robot to climb walls.

Instead of using suction cups, the robot uses super stickey rubber for its 16 feets. The gait of the robot ensures that at any given time eight feet are touching the surface (wall). Checkout this video via NewScientist.