Tag: BEAR

Fujitsu's interactive robotic teddy bear arrived last spring, but our friends over at Engadget just recently got a one-on-one demonstration of the bear-bot's personalized and reactive behavior, capturing its animatronic antics on video. (Check it out after the break.) The somewhat terrifying bear, designed for children and the elderly as a "people-friendly terminal," originally inspired doubts as ...

When Japanese senior citizens said they'd much rather cuddle with a stuffed animal than walk around the house with a fancy robot companion, the anti-cyborg overtones of their pleas were all too clear. Fujitsu, though, apparently remains unconvinced that Japan's elderly really know what they want. Which is why they've designed a brand new teddy bear... that's also a robot. According to ...

When it comes to bears, we agree with talk show host Stephen Colbert's stance. They're godless, killing machines. That means Kris Rowley, the State of Vermont's Certified Information Security Officer (CISO), is one lucky lady. While hiking this summer, Rowley escaped unharmed from an encounter with a bear, all thanks to her iPhone. With the bear closing in on her, Rowley searched her pockets for ...

We've seen some bizarre -- bizarre -- handsets in our day, but this one is just too darn cute to call weird. The conceptual Kuma Phone was recently shown off in Japan by Willcom, and according to local reports, the audience in attendance absolutely adored it. The GSM teddy bear, er, mobile can hold up to four speed dial numbers, boasts a built-in vibration function and allows users to answer ...

From the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" department comes a new robot destined for service in the U.S. Military that bears a striking resemblance to a teddy bear. Called the Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, the BEAR (yuk yuk) is designed to pick up injured soldiers and carry them to safety. At six-feet tall, the bot is big enough carry about 500 pounds, plenty for even portly soldiers and all ...