Star Wars IV, V, and VI planted profound psychological seeds into many born in the mid-70s to early 80s. Props are due.
Dec 202015
Dec 022015
2015 marks the 21st installment of Japan’s biennial iREX robotics tradeshow, which is the world’s largest – and since it’s larger than ever, it’s basically the largest robotics event in history, yo.
Mar 212015
Sometimes you’re on a corporate-sponsored press tour to get up-close and personal with the history of calculators and then you casually walk into the next room and BOOM! …suddenly you’re surrounded by the taxidermied carcasses of our technological ancestry.
Jan 302015
This week it appears that Kyocera is (allegedly) thriving in the UK printer market (paper, not 3D), and Toyota has decided that racin’ and jumpin’ and stuff is good for business after all. COME ONE AND ALL AND READ THE GODDAMN JTFF!
Jan 172015
Section A is furious anger at robotics coverage and the corpsifying institution of journalism in general. Section B is some very interesting robotics news from Japan (telepresence robotic heavy equipment operation!). Section C is the bow on the whole thing, so choose your own adventure(s)!
January 17, 2015
AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, Industrial Robots, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Robots, Japan「日本」, Robot, Technology, Technology & Labor
Dec 012014
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They once had little to do with actual robotics, but two product iterations and 15 years later, about to release their 3rd-generation kit [sic], Lego is at the top of educational, DIY, and plain old fun robot building. MINDSTORMS EV3 is coming, and the robo-geekosphere is buzzing…and whirring.
December 1, 2014
AkihabaraNews.com, Lego MINDSTORMS, Robot, Robot Toys, Technology, Technology & Education
Oct 052014
On October 1, 1964 the inaugural Shinkansen Bullet Train service on the Tokaido Line began rocketing citizens between Tokyo and Osaka at speeds up to 130 mph, and a beautiful and wholly unequaled machine quickly became the pride of a nation.
October 5, 2014
AkihabaraNews.com, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Rail Travel Tech, Technology, Technology & Travel