We told you in January about the virtual conference organized by Robotic Trends on 16 June 2010. This time the event, called Robotics Summit, has been given its own internet site: www.robovirtualevents.com. This conference aims to be a new international meeting place for roboticists, profession…
Bots High is a film in progress which shows robots fighting in American High Schools. The video documentary allows us to follow the course of several teams from the initial design of their robot to the final struggle for victory, honor but also for fun at the National BattleBots Championship. …
Here is a somewhat peculiar animation of a robot who drinks and drinks... Masahiro Ushiyama's experiment aims to create a realistic animation of a greeting robot without using facial expressions (mouth, eyes). It is indeed very successful ... even if watching a drinking robot seems as sad as wat…
Robopocalypse is a film in progress from Steven Spielberg inspired on an uncompleted comic book from Daniel H. Wilson. Wilson also wrote "How to Survive A Robot Uprising" :-) and "How to Build a Robot Army". Drew Goddard who wrote the screenplay for Cloverfield, will be adap…
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was an American writer of Russian origins. He was a visionary and considered as one of the leading figures in science-fiction, and he is specially known in robotics by his three laws (1942, Runaround): Fiirst Law: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through …
