Tuesday, 1 August 2017

MIT's new 'living' jewelry are creepy robot beetles for your clothes

Last year, MIT and Stanford debuted a new type of robot that could crawl over the surface of your clothing with the use of magnets. Now, it appears to have gone high fashion. It’s no longer a “rovable,” it’s Project Kino (kinetic wearables).

The small robots now house an array of colorful shields and will ideally serve both functional and aesthetic purposes. The video shows them moving about a dress as “shape changing jewelry,” its wheels leaving marks across velvet in what Project Kino calls “etching,” and a brooch moving up a garment to become a microphone.

“We’re thinking of wearables as a personal assistant. We think in the future, when they can have a brain of their own, they can learn your habits, learn your professional style, and...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/1/16075076/mit-kinetic-robots-project-kino-living-jewelry

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/mits-new-living-jewelry-are-creepy.html

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