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More Bear Robot News

This is starting to look like a trend:  bear-shaped robots.  Why?  I don't know, but there you are.  Japanese engineers at the RIKEN institute and Tokai Rubber have teamed up to create a cheerful-looking bear-shaped robot to assist the elderly and hospital patients.

I can't wait for this gentleman to get hospitalized and run into one. It would be a showdown of epic proportions.

A tip of the old bearskin to the Pink Tentacle Web log.

Robot Jellyfish!

Robot Jellyfish! What else need be said? A group of engineers in South Korea have built a robot jelly which swims the same way that living ones do, using electo-active polymers which work like muscles.

But who cares? It's a Robot Jellyfish!