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 ...

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 ...

Tails are used throughout the animal kingdom to help with balance or to grip objects. Humans don't have such a thing, so scientists at the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design have built ...

Why hang on to your emotions when you can wag them proudly with a robotic mood tail? Sure, you may never have asked that question yourself, but intrepid DIYer Wei-Chieh Tseng seemingly has, and he's ...

TOKYO — Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University has built a robotic one that they say could help unsteady elderly people ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The robotic tail could help mimic virtual ...