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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from Keio University in Japan have created a robotic tail for humans that's designed to assist in balance maintenance. Dubbed "Arque," the tail was modeled, in part, after the tail of a ...

For years, assistive mechanical devices, such as robotic arms, hands and legs, have helped patients improve function and gain mobility – and now a robotic tail is showing promise for balancing ...

Explore the entire process of building a custom miniature basketball game featuring robotic arms and clever control ...