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 ...

Humans seem to be always on the lookout for augmentations using electronic and mechanical technologies to physically enhance their bodies. This is done by attaching or implanting some type of device ...

If you’re prone to tripping or losing balance, then researchers in Japan may have an unusual solution: a robotic tail. A team at Keio University in Tokyo has designed a wearable human tail, which is ...

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 ...

TOKYO: Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep ...

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 ...