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 ...

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 ...

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 their ...

The tail acts like a pendulum, reacting to the movement of the person wearing it to ensure they keep their balance. It could prove especially useful for the elderly. Our team tests, rates, and reviews ...

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