Posted by Lem on March 31st, 2008
DSC00084 Originally uploaded by Tempusmaster. Thanks to the great arrangement by Dr. Keishi Matsuda of Anabuki Technical College in Takamatsu, we were able to spend a wonderful afternoon getting a behind the scenes tour of the Takanishi Laboratory at Waseda University along with a briefing on many of the amazing robot research and development projects currently underway. We'll be posting detailed reports on some of the projects soon. We should...
Posted by getvisible on March 29th, 2008
TI've just received a letter from
Red5 that the new fantastic
Rovio spy robot that we
brought to you earlier this year will have initial exclusivity with
Red5!!!
I've just asked them for more information about price and release date, but we'll have to wait to find out I expect.
Posted by Lem on March 28th, 2008
The ROBO-ONE organizing committee always likes to raise the bar just a bit with each succeeding competition. It challenges the builders to keep honing and improving their skills and the performance of their robots. And, at the same time, it keeps the number of competitors that make it into the finals down to a manageable number. For ROBO-ONE 13, the committee decided to make the pre-screening tests slightly more difficult...
Posted by rajbot on March 28th, 2008
Go Brewster and Ralf!!
The Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to preserving a record of the Internet and to increasing access to the Internet, today began offering free Internet service to public housing projects at speeds far greater than any other city resident can receive.
Valencia Gardens Housing, with 240 units, is the first area to be connected in a pilot project that expects to wire more than 2,500 units in the city in the next eight months, according to Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.
What makes the project unique is that the apartments will be connected to the Internet, and to the educational resources at the Internet Archive, at 100 megabits per second (Mbits/second). That speed contrasts sharply with the normal Internet service offered by telephone companies, which is usually less than 6 Mbits/second.
The residents can instantly view DVD-quality videos of the thousands of lectures and other educational information from the Internet Archive’s collections, as well as traditional Internet access.
The Internet Archive is able to achieve this high speed by connecting the San Francisco municipal fiber optic network, which runs through the public housing developments, to an Archive switching center, which connects to the Internet.
“We are pleased to be the first non-profit organization to bring public housing online,” Kahle said.
He added: “We are excited to see much faster access to the Internet as a way to experiment with advanced applications, and are pleased that the underserved get first access to advanced technology.”
See also: NYTimes Bits Blog, The Reg, Cnet article by Greeter Dan.
Posted by Lem on March 28th, 2008
Iwaki-san and Tanaka-san have put together a new humanoid robot book that we know is destined to join our rapidly growing library, and workshop. The book, titled "Custom Robot Perfect Book", has us drooling just from the cover photos alone. Add in the fact that Iwaki-san has designed and built some totally awesome robots, including Five - one of the ROBO-ONE 13 finalists, and Tanaka-san is famous for his robot...
Posted by flickr on March 27th, 2008
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Posted by flickr on March 27th, 2008
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Posted by Lem on March 26th, 2008
DSC06587 Originally uploaded by Tempusmaster. Sorry for the delay. We just uploaded the ROBO-ONE 13: Second Day set of raw photos. Enjoy!
Posted by Lem on March 25th, 2008
It seems like Maeda-san and OmniZero have totally blocked out the Demonstration phase of the ROBO-ONE competitions as their own personal turf. They own it exclusively and don't intend to let any other builder encroach on their territory. On Saturday, during the first day's technical demonstrations, OmniZero's performance (see video below) was letter perfect. The amazing robot met, and exceeded, all the event's theme challenges including dancing in time to...
Posted by flickr on March 25th, 2008
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