A Taiwanese man has created a 14-foot replica of Optimus Prime from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen out of the junk he found in his garage. He took two weeks time for this.

“its chest is made from some old house windows, a back from old TV roof antennas and a few gears and old tires that might be lying around in a garage”

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Oh sh*t, i hate baby robots, creepy bots. The man above is Dr.Javier Movellan and the ego head baby next to him is Diego-San. They are from Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD. I’m alright with the picture above but not the one after the break. Read more…

This is the first they put a match between between a human pro wrestler and a robot. The robot is called Genuine Great King Kizer. It is a 1 meter tall 9 kilo humanoid with 37 servos and 25 degrees of freedom.

“Every 18 months or so, designer Naoki Maru has doubled the size of this robot, which means that it’ll be playing soccer with Hajime 33 sometime in 2011.”

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It is called the Giantbum, designed by Nathaniel Mellor. These robot heads are ready for sale, get them at $75,000. No way I’m going get those heads even if I’m rich, creepy…!. Video after the break. Read more…

It is robot/schoolgirl dancing to J-pop in some robot dance competition. Too bad she didn’t win, probably too weird. Video after the break. Read more…

Yuta Sugiura and his co-mate at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University have developed a new robot called Walky. It is controlled using iPhone rather than using some keyboard or traditional controller. Walking, turning, jumping, kicking, and other actions can be performed by the simple finger gestures on the iPhone’s touch screen.

“Walky follows in the finger-steps of their laundry-folding robot and UI system called Foldy.”

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Hey people, Youtuber Hot4darmat1 is turning his kid into a robot. That mech costume is made of cardboard and toilet paper rolls and spray paint. Video after the break. Read more…

Someone built an Arduino-powered autonomous robot built using random electronic parts and fixed it on a modified Pelican case with a lot of hot glue. The robot can play pretty well, hitting above 80%. Video after the break. Read more…

The Column Gear is a new robot developed by Japanese students. It does nothing but just transform with a motion activated remote control which you have to swing in the air. Video after the break. Read more…

Take a look at Wei-Chieh Tseng’s robotic mood tail. It moves like a cat’s tails and can detects different emotion cards that set off varying degrees of tail-wagging, thanks to its Arduino and an RFID reader. Video after the break. Read more…