Optimus

How to fake a robotics demo for fun and profit

In March 2008, a roboticist in winter wear gave Big Dog a big kick for the camera. The buzzing DARPA-funded robot stumbled, but quickly regained its footing amid the snowy parking lot. “PLEASE DO NO

Elon’s Tesla robot is sort of ‘ok’ at folding laundry in pre-scripted demo

Elon Musk’s Optimus humanoid robot from Tesla is doing more stuff — this time folding a t-shirt on a table in a development facility. The robot looks to be fairly competent when it comes t

Our top 4 Tesla AI day predictions

Tesla’s second AI Day is fast approaching, and with it a flurry of speculations as to what will be discussed at the event — a phenomenon that we at TechCrunch are certainly not above. AI D

LG’s Optimus G Successor (And Its 5-Inch, 1080p Display) Could Launch As Early As May 2013

Well, that was quick. It's only been two or so months since LG pulled officially pulled back the curtains on its flagship Optimus G smartphone, but it seems the Korean company isn't done fiddling with

Hands-On With The Optimus L9, LG’s Most Recent Mid-Range Mobile

LG has been getting plenty of attention these days because of some recent carrier announcements (case in point: Sprint announced it would carry the LG Mach and Optimus G), but that's not all the LG ha

T-Mobile Will Launch LG’s Ice Cream Sandwich-Powered Optimus L9 “This Fall”

AT&T and Sprint have already laid claim to LG's flagship Optimus G handset, but what of the rest of the Big 4 national carriers? Verizon has been keeping awfully quiet on the subject -- maybe beca

LG’s Flagship Optimus G Slated To Hit AT&T And Sprint Shelves Later This Year

LG's last big (and I mean <em>big</em>) smartphone release around these parts was the Intuition, a funky phablet that many a critic panned. Thankfully, the company's straight-laced follow-up -- the ni

Hands-On With LG’s (Huge) Optimus Vu

We're here checking out LG's media preview event, and so far, there are no surprises to be had here. LG's Daniel Hernandez is on stage as I write this talking about all of the phones that the company

LG Takes A Chance With The Oddly-Proportioned Optimus Vu

After spending the past few quarters in the red, LG recently turned things around with a bit of growth in their once-ailing <a href="http://pocketnow.com/android/lg-q4-2011-results-finally-show-phone-

LG’s Optimus LTE Android Phone Goes On Sale In Japan

Japan's biggest mobile carrier <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/docomo">NTT Docomo</a> has <a href="http://www.lgnewsroom.com/newsroom/contents/61685">introduced</a> LG's awesome Optimus Android ph

Japan's Docomo To Sell LG's Optimus Pad This Thursday For $980

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/lg_optimus.png" /> Japan's biggest mobile carrier <a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/tag/docomo/">NTT Docomo</a> today <a href="http:/

T-mobile announces BOGO promotion for Black Friday

<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bogodeal-630x470.jpg" />If there's a special someone in your life that's into smartphones as much as you are, then you should have a ga

Metro PCS launches their first Android phone: the LG Optimus M

Joining the Optimus party that T-mobile and Sprint have been getting down at since October, and that US Cellular is still on his way to (Verizon is reportedly partying, but at an entirely different ad

Microsoft Attempts To Patent The Optimus Keyboard

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/microsoft-dynamic-keyboard.jpg" />It seems that a year and a half ago, Microsoft applied for a patent for what appears to be a sort of hy

LG To The WSJ, "Our tablet will be better than the iPad."

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LG_Tablet.jpg">Oh boy. LG's Marketing VP made a mighty big claim in a recent Wall Street Journal article. I'll state it again if you some

First shots of Optimus Popularis keyboard emerge

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/optimus-popularis-620x406.jpg" />We heard tell of the Optimus Popularis<a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/05/13/optimus-popularis-wi

Optimus Popularis will cost less than $1,000, remain irrelevant

I think of Art Lebedev’s odd creations the way I think of expensive, weird sex toys – maybe someone will buy one, but any way you slice it it’s not going to take off. Anyway, the Opt

Oh look, a World of Warcraft Optimus keyboard theme

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wowkeyboard.jpg" />What good is that Optimus keyboard without <i>World of Warcraft</i>? None good, I say, which is why it brings me great

Optimus Pultius: between Minimus and Maximus

This might be something I can use. I enjoyed the easily customizable softkeys on the Microsoft wireless keyboard I reviewed a month or so ago, and this is more powerful and less attached to a bulky ke

Optimus Tactus: Yeah, I'm OK with my old keyboard, thanks

Art Lebedev’s Optimus Keyboard, famous for having little OLED screens on each key and never actually, you know, being purchased by anyone, was the defining meme of the 2006-2007 blogging season.
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