Bouncing Red Ball

memory is an independent animation film directed by Junichi Yamamoto (山GEん).
Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by futuristic soldiers investigating a devastated area.
The humanoid appeared to be household robot, reminiscent of Asimo, and when the soldiers booted it up, they were able to [...]

In what might be a glimpse of the exciting possibilities of future robotics, Honda (Honda Research Institute - Japan) and ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research International) unveiled today an Asimo that can be controlled by mind power alone.

Using their jointly-developed Brain Machine Interface, which uses EEG (electroencephalography) and NIRS (near-infrared spectroscopy) to measure electrical impulses in [...]