If you enjoy robotic heads (as I do), you'll like the following video of a new robotic head created by KIST’s Center for Intelligent Robotics.
(Korean Talking Robotic Heads)
Not much information is available, but it appears to be a prototype used to explore how people can learn from robots in a school environment.
Science fiction writer William Gibson wrote about an elaborate mechanical talking head that served as an output terminal in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, :
…a head, an intricately worked bust, cloisonné over platinum, studded with seed pearls and lapis. ..The thing was a computer terminal…it could talk.
(Read more about about William Gibson's talking head)
Pole-Dancing Stripperbot Robot
'Why, a clockwork dancer, or, better still, one that would go by electricity and never run down...' - Jerome K. Jerome, 1893.
Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!)
is devoted to the creative science inventions and ideas of sf authors. Look for
the Invention Category that interests
you, the Glossary, the Invention
Timeline, or see what's New.
Tumblin' Tumbleweed Rovers To Eplore Mars
'His sensors out and working, and the whirring of the tape that sucked up sight and sound and shape and smell and form...'