Taken from cnet,  Himawari, which means “sunflower” in Japanese, exhibits a lifelike, if slightly eerie, quality when moving slowly. A group of 48 white LEDs in the head twinkle in response to detected movement. Eighty actuators that use shape memory alloy move other parts of the flower for added effect.

Why build a robot plant? Nakayasu has apparently been influenced by the charmingly absurd creations of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, whose skeletal kinetic sculptures also seem slightly alive, but his message seems to be communication.

“That movement of the flower stem and the blossoming towards the sun seems to communicate a message,” Nakayasu writes. “(The robot’s) slow, weak and slender movements interact with human motion, trying to communicate, the same way a sunflower communicates with the morning sun.”

Here’s a video on it:

The concept looks pretty cool though its looks could be improved. But expressions in iphone screen would be good maybe coupled with text to speech and emotions. Something i could think about. =)

hmm. when i do have the time, i’ll definitely develop a humanoid for myself..

On a side note, been busy in the holidays.. and school is starting soon. Time really flies.

Hopefully i make a right choice in the next few days.

Been slightly busy with projects and stuff but had time to watch the recent transformer. it was not as good as the first one.. but was pretty cool and good.. =)

and well.. found something.. macbook transformers… enjoy! =)

Wofram Alpha looks really interesting. Found it on techcrunch. Do find it really useful if the data are accurate. Read the techcrunch above for a more indepth view of Wofram. I tried doing a search on Singapore and got some pretty interesting results. But my name did not get any result. =(

Some stuff that can be used to find on Wolfram Aplha:

• • Date (e.g. a birth date) – can get a historical date and events
  • Town (e.g. a home town) – e.g. singapore as shown above
  • Stocks (e.g. IBM, apple)
  • Calculation and Maths formula

pretty cool right?

Giant Beetle Robot in Japan

With a length of 11m and a width of 9.5m..

PLUS

18m Gundam at Odaiba Island

and a 18m Gundam at Japan’s Odaiba Island in July..

can i built one too?

oh.. latest transformers video looks incredible too.. damn cool.. waiting for it to come out.