Robots Blog

What's going on today in my crazy robot world? 09:02 Weather forecasting is totally dependent on data quality and volume, so flying weather robots... tinyurl.com/flying-weather-robots 12:59 QinetiQ launched a transformable military robot for reconnasissance and bomb disarmament. tinyurl.com/transformable-military-robot 13:32 Just what you would expect from college robotics students - a snack fetching robot (tinyurl.com/snack-fetching-robot). Food fight! 14:38 Vex robotics seems to be gaining more and more traction. Here's the November...

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My friend michelangelo and his family are in New Zealand for two months. This is what’s for breakfast…

An ostrich egg apparently equals 30 chicken eggs!

What's going on today in my crazy robot world? 12:52 It's just a concept at the moment, but the Eddy design has lots of promise for construction. tinyurl.com/modular-construction-robot 12:55 Laurent gave us an exciting demo of the amazing ARToolkit, so of course we searched for it on Youtube (tinyurl.com/artookit-video) 13:47 Want to experiment with the ARToolkit to do something cool, like control your robot? (tinyurl.com/artoolkit-homepage) 14:00 Our fascination with robots...

What's going on today in my crazy robot world? 20:33 Tiny piezoelectric motors make it possible to build a robot small enough to roam and repair the heart. tinyurl.com/tiny-robots-heart 23:14 iRobot has its own video channel on Youtube (tinyurl.com/irobot-youtube-channel). 10:07 We've posted about Recycler robot before, but it's great to see it's still singing and motivating. tinyurl.com/rapping-robot-recycles 10:11 Robot-assisted surgery has become proven and reliable with hospitals logging thousands of...

Probably channeling a certain George, but unprompted . . . .
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What's going on today in my crazy robot world? 12:18 What if you lost a $120,000 robot submarine? Would you be sweating? (tinyurl.com/finding-nemo-robot) We would! 12:30 $500 and 50 hours of work results in a beer delivery robot, and a spot on the Letterman show (tinyurl.com/beer-delivery-robot) 13:02 Building an autonomous robot? The Sparkfun competition might be just the motivation you need (tinyurl.com/sparkfun-robot-competition)Robotically posted for Lem by LoudTwitter

What's going on today in my crazy robot world? 08:07 Scientific American on how robots enable major retailers to handle the holiday shopping crunch. (tinyurl.com/ai-robots-shipping) Robotically posted for Lem by LoudTwitter

What's going on today in my crazy robot world? 22:27 When your combat robot has to peek over a wall what could be better than a telescoping zipper mast (tinyurl.com/zipermast-robot) 23:28 Electro, the world's first robot celebrity, is reborn (tinyurl.com/electro-robot-returns). 06:24 Instructables has a useful article on interfacing a Wii nunchuck with your robot (tinyurl.com/wii-nunchuck-robot-control) 08:47 Only a dedicated robot geek would spend 4 years and $$$ creating a cool...