Tag: MURATA

Murata Manufacturing produces a multitude of diverse technological devices, including capacitors, resistors and various types of sensors (as well as the awesome Murata Boy and Murata Girl robots). The company just revealed one of its new sensor devices at the CEATEC Japan 2010 conference, and the gadget could offer (virtual) life-saving benefits. Murata equipped the product with EKG electrodes ...

Do you remember the little Murata robots, the adorable droids that ride bicycles and unicycles? Well, Seiko has been updated yet again; she could previously go back and forth on a narrow beam with her lone wheel, but now she can navigate curves. Click past the break, and see a video of her previous incarnation at last year's CEATEC, the Tokyo electronics show where the new Seiko will demo next ...

Riding a bicycle isn't exactly easy, especially if you're made of circuitry, wires, and a gyroscope. That was Murata Seisaku-kun's one trick, and now he's sadly obsolete. Meet Seiko, a 20-inch tall, 11 pound unicycle riding robot. Like her, uh, "cousin" Keisaku-kun, Seiko relies on a chest-mounted gyro to stay upright and uses Bluetooth to communicate with a PC that gives instructions. (Yes, she's ...