A short article on how to build a simple infrared proximity detector. Adapted from the Stamps In Class robotics curriculum. After setting up your robot's motors and letting it run, one of the first things you'll realize, is that most likely it will run straight into a wall.
This year (2001), my parents have assigned me the task of doing a science fair project. After many many brainstorming ideas, I've finally settled on the idea of a project about maze solving robots and algorithms. I read Robot Science and Technology's article about the C* algorithm, with …
[via Facebook] Jason Lentz has an amazing cardboard robot costume, and frequents events like Burning man and the recent Maker Fair in SF. He has quite a collection of robot suit iterations in his Flickr page, and if you're feeling envious, you can buy one of his robot arms on Etsy for a mere…
Both Jawa Lunk and Scot Washburn have sent us some cool updates from the Wall-E builders group. For those not familiar with the Wall-E builder's group, it's an array of hobbiets that are building scale models of Wall-E, the star of the upcoming Pixar film about a robot named Wall-E.
Honda recently had a media extravaganza in which they demoed their recently announced "Stride/Bodyweight Assist Machine", an experimental device that aids human walking by reducing stress on joins and muscles. It's a cross between an exoskeleton and a chair - the former because it&…
