Originally from Neatorama
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Toyota’s newest robot is a Segway-like transportation tool that called the Winglet. Weighing just under 22kg, it’s portable and compact and intended to help lazy people get around in airports and supermarkets just by leaning in the direction they want to move in. Call me crazy, but I’d rather be sitting in a motorized wheelchair than standing on this thing which makes you two heads taller than the next person and only goes 4mph. (The Segway is at least 3x faster.)
It will be a lot cooler, I think, when Toyota does what it plans to do next with it, which is to enable it to store shopping info or go back to a battery charging station on its own.
New Toyota "Winglet" Bot Walks Through Airports(title unknown)
Originally from MiniBOT's shared items in Google Reader
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Roboticists in Kyoto take books-on-tape to a whole new level with this purple talking robot. Modeled after 10th century noblewoman Lady Murasaki Shikibu, she reads you her famous novel Tale of Genji via an internal MP3 player while making relevant gestures from her era to emphasize dramatic moments.
Lady Murasaki Bot Recites Tale of Genji(title unknown)
Originally from MiniBOT's shared items in Google Reader
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Nono Nekomiya –Nekomimi Swimwear Over Knee Socks ver. Figure- was released by Kotobukiya on the 1st. According to its product information, she has all the Moe elements such as “cute little body, swimwear, Nekomimi (cat ears) & a tale, over knee socks, a bell… How lovely she is.” Akiba-hobby-san reviewed: “when you peep, she is erotic.”
"Nekomimi, Swimwear, Knee Socks" Nono Nekomiya Figure on Sale
Originally from AkibaBlog
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