Those mad-scientist hobbyist over at Xrobots has created this organic-looking robot with some curtain rods, electric screwdrivers, motors, put together using polymorph plastic. If you have never seen Polymorph before, it’s a plastic that can be melted in hot water, molded with your hand and when it dries, it’s rock solid. Read more...

Meet Ema, she’s from Japan, big-busted, petite very friendly and runs on batteries. SEGA Toys produces this 15-inch tall female figured robot which, unlike your typical girlfriend, Ema will kiss on command.

E.M.A stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization. She puckers up for nearby human heads and gives out kisses, when she’s in “love mode”.

“She’s very lovable and though she’s not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend.”

She also hand out business cards, sing and dance, just like a real girlfriend, or not.

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Robots, this will be a regular topic here. Hollywood has made it obvious that robots will one day take over the world. They (the robots) will be all friendly, cute and helpful at first before they initiate their master plan of world domination and kill us all.

Anyway, this cute little robot called ApriPoko developed by folks at Toshiba is a talking robot that also functions as a voice-operated universal remote control for multiple home appliances. It is a prototype and still in development and testing phase.

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