Metroid Fusion is an unusually story driven and linear chapter in the series, but hits all the right notes fans expect.

NEC held another PaPeRo workshop, this time at Tsuda College for Women.

Here’s an English video presentation of Tachi Lab’s tele-existence robot, the TELESAR.  The TELESAR system utilizes a stereoscopic head mounted display and has haptic feedback in the arm controls, allowing the operator to perform dexterous manipulation tasks as if she was really in the robot’s environment.  In one example, the operator repeatedly picks up and [...]

Besides turning dolls into robots, hobbyists can add their own personal touch to the standard kits by making costumes for them.  Here are a few videos that have popped up on YouTube recently.  The first is a pair of robots (Mikan and Chacha) that appear at many Japanese robot events, where they dance to original [...]

Some cool train posters from the ’70s and early ’80s that remind passengers of the rules.