DIYer Wei-Chieh Tseng has created a robotic plush tail a la Super Mario Bros. 3 that uses RFID-enabled emotion cards (3 to be exact: angry, happy and sad) to remotely prompt movement from the tail. As ...

Regular Giz readers will have seen countless crazy homebrew inventions powered by the DIY Arduino platform—but this could be the strangest yet. How about a robotic tail that’s controlled by RFID “mood ...

Wonder no longer. A group of researchers from Keio University in Japan has created a robotic tail for humans. Called Arque, the robotic tail prototype was designed to do what a real tail does: balance ...

If you thought by now we'd have flying cars, Moon bases and nanotechnology making us like Superman or something -- you know you're wrong. Your consolation prize? A robotic tail called the Arque.

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While researching AI robotics I came across this interesting robotic human tail developed by researchers at Keio University in Japan a few years ago. The Arque robotic tail aims to augment human ...

Why hang on to your emotions when you can wag them proudly with a robotic mood tail? Sure, you may never have asked that question yourself, but intrepid DIYer Wei-Chieh Tseng seemingly has, and he's ...

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