Rollerman races motorcycle in Japan

Simroid is a dental patient robot developed as a training tool for aspiring dentists. She can follow spoken instructions, closely monitor a dentist's

Simroid (a.k.a. 'Pain Girl'), dentist training robot.

Japanese art bikes. Soundtrack is "Ichiban-boshi Blues" (by Bunta Sugawara and Kinya Aikawa). The video pieces together random scenes from "Dekochari

Tokyo underground

Sayaka is a pill-shaped camera system designed to capture images of the intestines after it is swallowed. Developed by RF System, Inc.

Kenji Kawakami demonstrates chindogu

Toyota's robot violinist has 17 computer-controlled joints in its arms and fingers, which allow it to hold the violin, gently draw the bow, and correc

Soundtrack: Yo La Tengo cover of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War".

This underwater restroom built into the side of an aquarium is located at a cafe in Akashi, Japan.

Video of Earth rising and setting over the moon's horizon, taken with the HDTV camera aboard Japan's KAGUYA (SELENE) lunar explorer on November 7, 200

U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi is an interactive "mixed reality" humanoid robot, originally developed by NTT DoCoMo, which appears as a computer-animated character wh

(3) Firefly squid, (2) Bioluminescent plankton, (1) Bioluminescent comb jelly.

Actroid DER2, a feminine guide robot by Kokoro, a Sanrio Group company, was unveiled at Sanrio headquarters in Tokyo on October 4, 2006.

How to catch a skyfish.

Music: 'Nights Interlude' - Nightmares on Wax

This prototype of the Halluc II, a robotic vehicle under development at the Chiba Institute of Technology, has eight wheels and legs and is able to dr

Defense mechanism of Tremoctopus, or blanket octopus

Soundrack: Senor Coconut's cha-cha-cha version of "The Robots" (original by Kraftwerk).

Time-lapse video of dinner on the ocean floor. Giant isopods, eels and crabs feed on a fish carcass.