Ever think that a robot can interacts with your kids? Think RoboPanda hi-tech robot! The Robopanda robot from WowWee Electronics is not just a doll or a toy for your kids; it wants to play with your kids. It’s aimed at children 4 years old and up, but the thing weighs 8 pounds, so 6-year-olds are maybe the right age for the robot-like device. It has infrared feature, touch, and stereo sensors that allow it to react to sound, movement, and feel. You can watch the video HERE to see how the Robopanda robot works. It will cost to you about $229 and be available in the spring ahead.

Robopanda™ is a playful and talkative interactive friend. With his engaging personality and bright animated eyes, Robopanda™ loves to share stories and jokes, play games, sing songs and talk with children of all ages. He’s a fun-filled robotic bear who can even crawl on all fours and return to a sitting position. Designed to work without a remote control, Robopanda™ is controlled directly by touch and sound. You’ll experience hours of delight and entertainment playing with him and his …

Most of girls out there love facials, but what if the next facial you got was done by a hi-tech robot? In Japan, the technology to do this already exists thanks to the Tokyo’s Waseda University. The university developed WAO-1 (the Waseda Asahi Oral Rehabilitation) at the first place just for relieving the symptoms of disorders such as xerostomia, jaw arthritis and swallowing disorder. Treatments that apply “just the right amount of pressure” without excessive force have been realized by using existing technologies developed for robots according to the project leader Atsuo Takanishi, but is now being considered for beautician to use it in beauty spas.
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Shock no. 6: Wall Climbing Robot a.k.a Spiderman Robot: Do  you know what is ‘Spiderman’? He is one of the fictional superheroes that was having ability to walk or crawl on the wall. ‘Spiderman’ is what we called him. Do you think it’s impossible for us to walk on the wall? Here’s the idea: Recently, Hideji Nakata professor from Hokaido tech college Japan has developed a wall walking or crawling robot.
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Recently the researchers at Duke University Medical Center have used a monkey’s brain activity (thoughts) to control a robot on the other side of the globe(US-Japan). In what researchers found as a first-of-its-kind experiment, monkeys’ thoughts in US controlled the real walking patterns of a robot in Japan (synchronization).

They can walk in complete synchronization,” said Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, who also is the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke. “The most stunning finding is that when we stopped the treadmill and the monkey ceased to move its legs, it was able to sustain the locomotion of the robot for a few minutes — just by thinking — using only the visual feedback of the robot in Japan.

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