August 2010
Robot Armies At Our Finger Tips
August 28, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Mark Micire from UMass Lowel has built this multitouch interface on the new microsoft surface.
Micromouse Gets A Mini-me
August 26, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Kato-san, the ingenious creator of Micromouse, has created a half-sized version of micromouse dubbed Eggtourte.
Rogun: Fun For The Whole Family
August 26, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Rogun is a robot built to identify faces, alert owners to intruders via cellphone, and entertain.
DIY projects presented by Randy Sarafan
August 26, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Have you ever wanted to create an autonomous robot from a DIY kit, but found it way to complicated? If so, then read this. Randy Sarafan, the writer of 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer , wrote a small article on the website Instructables about his simple “bots” that can be created in 10 minutes with instruction
Electric Fish From Sendensha Co.
August 25, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
The Japanese company, Sendensha Co., had a goal of creating a fish that can swim with the movement and efficiency of a fish. They have accomplished this. The Robo-Fish’s (Electric Fish from translation) movements are controlled through electrostatic actuators, which is how the robot is able to swish its body back and forth like a real fish.
Giant Robot Arm Creates Halo: Reach Light Sculpture
August 24, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Microsoft is launching an interactive website to celebrate Halo: Reach. Users will be able to help build a Halo light sculpture by controlling a Kuka Robot Arm. Kuka Robot Arms are usually used to assemble cars but here, it will be used to bend and twist to correspond with the specific points users want to light up
Review: MORAV The History Of Robotic Warfare
August 23, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Our old friend Fon Davis has created a comic book that should serve as a great starting point for his MORAV universe. MORAV is an action/sci-fi story that is hard to categorize. It’s probably closest to Military Sci-Fi
PALRO Gets Some Apps, Shows Off On Video
August 23, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Only a few months after Fujisoft’s PALRO was introduced, the humanoid is ready to receive a several new applications and be used as a people tracker. PALRO may also soon gain a Twitter client to read tweets aloud, in addition to a cooking app, a Japanese word game and remote monitoring abilities. PALRO has been recently spotted with a few newfound ability to track people and objects using its built-in camera.
Random Bot Pic: Astromech Overload
August 23, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
This awesome pic is from Don Solo on Flickr.
UPenn PR2 Is A One-Man Band
August 23, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
The team has finally gotten a PR2 robot programmed to play both the keyboard and drums at the same time and needless to say, this little bot can rock. In this video clip, the bot reads from a MIDI file, and plays his own “special†versions of U2’s With or Without You and Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles. I can’t wait for the day when robot bands go on tour and sell out everywhere they play
