www.softwarepirate.org The Software Pirate goes to Wired Nextfest and checks out some of the stranger robotic projects the show has to offer. Creepy baby seal robot Paro, creepy android Actroid, creepy ballroom dancing robots, it's a regular festival of technological creepiness.

A conceptual art & technology piece with a social justice twist.

Jonathan Levit hosting a segment from Wired Next Fest 2006.

A recap of Nextfest 2006 in New York.

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The humanoid robot REEM-A walks among people at Wired Nextfest 2007 in Los Angeles.

Mower, the robotic lawn mowing sheep rears its head at Wired NextFest 2008.

WIRED NEXTFEST Actroid DER

Bartending Robot

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne have made an astonishing robot that moves with spinal cord motion. See more here: http://www.suicidebots.com

Ferrofluid, suspended and animated by super-powerful magnets. These things are about 4 inches high, and completely fascinating. Built by Sachico Kodama (UEC) and Yasushi Miyajima (Sony CSL)

A representative from the US Army explains the new soldier-protection technology coming online in 2010. New body army, new bone-conduction communications, and even a heads-up display

Footage from the September 2007 Wired NextFest convention in Los Angeles. Shot by Mark Hefflinger and edited by Graham Kolbeins for Digital Media Wire.

A Journey Through Aesthetic Realms - Episode 393, Technology: Wired Next Fest, Air date: October 12, 2007 (AJAR - 20071012)

My favorite exhibit. www.theresident.net

We take a tour through Chicago's greenest house at the Museum of Science and Industry.

The amphibian Salamander and Snake robot developped at the BIRG lab. of the EPFL presented at the Wired NextFest event. Los Angeles 2007

Moves like a person.

Bionics prosthetics showcased at Wired NextFest 2008.

Short demo on the orange d30 goop getting squished and hammered.

A demonstration of a visual play environment at NEXT fest.

This video is from the WIRED Nextfest technology exposition in 2006 showing a robot receptionist.

WIRED NEXTFEST Playmotion

Yahoo's director of Design Innovation at Wired NextFest on 9/13/2007

Victor Friedberg, Excecutive Director of Nextfest discusses the latest in Robotics and more with ABC23 at the 2007 Wired Nextfest by Wired Magazine.

Another video from this year's Wired NestFest show - a demo of wireless TV, coming to a BestBuys near you.

This multi-touch screen is one of the exhibits at Wired NextFest 2007. There are two very wide (around 16 foot wide) LCD screen. You can drag and move object like the scene in the Minority Report. When I draw a circle on the screen, it displays a menu and additional functions. The response is quick. The on-screen keyboard is good and responsive to...

A Toyota spokesman showcases a new Plug-in Prototype at Wired NextFest 2008.

Opening Door, will open to the shape of your body

This exhibit is called "Keepon". It's a cute yellow robot - like a chicken. There is a camera in its eyes, and the noise is a microphone. The robot can respond to sound or visual. There is a camera at the exhibition, that small robot can track objects (like a facial recognition in the digital camera).