Posted by Lem on July 31st, 2009
That great quote from Eugene Jun, President of the Organizing Committee for the Korea Robot Game Festival, sets the perfect tone for what is sure to be one of the most interesting and exciting robot events and competitions this year. This will be the 6th Korea Robot Game Festival, and the formal competitions are scheduled for August 7th (Friday) through the 9th (Sunday), and run from early morning until late...
Posted by Lem on July 31st, 2009
Just in the process of installing WifiPAD on the iPhone and setting up our PC. We’ll see how easy this makes controlling some of our robots from the iPhone. Here’s what the developer claims: It looks dead simple… We’ll see.
Posted by Lem on July 31st, 2009
Another entry on our list of ‘must see’ robot movies:
Posted by Lem on July 31st, 2009
The iRobot Roomba robot is certainly useful, as far as it goes. But some rooms are just too cluttered for the Roomba, and the robots design is just begging for some advanced features, like the ability to empty the debris it collects. A team of Japanese researchers have come up with what just might be the perfect next-generation domestic helper, the Advanced Automatic Cleaning Robot: Roomba-2
Posted by Lem on July 30th, 2009
While we're on the topic of LEGOs and houses, we should mention that over 3 million LEGO bricks were shipped direct from the Czech Republic to a field in the U.K. We don't even want to begin thinking about how much that must have cost. It turns out that James May with the popular British television show 'Top Gear' will be using them to build a full-size house. The house...
Posted by Lem on July 30th, 2009
What would be the ultimate robot mash-up? How about a car/truck/humanoid dancing, iPod toting, robot? That’s what Yoshihiro Tsuzuki thought, so he built it completely out of off the shelf parts and was kind enough to even document the whole design and build process for everyone on the internet.
Posted by Lem on July 30th, 2009
Listen! Just a simple test to see if we can post audio segments from events, or interviews, directly to Robots Dreams.
Posted by Lem on July 30th, 2009
Of course we love robot photos (especially taking them) and robot artwork, but after a while we tend to get a liitle over-saturated, and honestly kind of bored, with it all. Then, totally out of the blue, we run across some artwork that is so refreshing or surprising that it completely restores our spirits and energy. And, on rare occasions, the work is so unexpected that we are forced to...
Posted by Lem on July 30th, 2009
The MANOI Fan Club is staging a competition this Saturday (August 1st) at RT Corp in Akihabara. The events, including a unique race designed to show off the MANOI humanoid robots manuverability at it's best, are expected to kick off by 11:00 am and run through late afternoon. Kyosho MANOI Competition [From the Robots Dreams iPhone]
Posted by rajbot on July 29th, 2009
ElementTree doesn’t support pretty-printing XML. lxml does, but isn’t installed on our system. minidom’s toprettyxml() is seriously fucked up. What to do? I took some advice from here and came up with this function, which takes an ET node and returns a pretty-printed string:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2
from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint
from StringIO import StringIO
def prettyPrintET(etNode):
reader = Sax2.Reader()
docNode = reader.fromString(ET.tostring(etNode))
tmpStream = StringIO()
PrettyPrint(docNode, stream=tmpStream)
return tmpStream.getvalue()
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