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What if mankind evacuated Earth and forgot to turn off the last remaining robot? This is the premise of Pixar Studio's latest film, Wall-E, to be relased this coming summer. Even though Lem beat me to it, I've been meaning to post about Wall-E ever since my wife and I saw the trailer in front …
EngineeringTV, started in January 2007, is, "a unique online video program by engineers for engineers." Each week, EngineeringTV posts two new interviews and informative videos on relavant eneering subjects. Topics range from smart cars, robotics, wind turbines, to space missions. Each episode i…
We received a note from Sven Behnke of team NimbRo. He pointed us to a video the team had uploaded of the final RoboCup match between NimbRo and Team Osaka. We also took some video of the event, but unfortuatenly it didn't turn out well. Sven wrote: RoboCup 2007 took place from July 1st to July …
Have you ever wanted to plumb the depths of your neighbors pond or swimming pool looking for lost treasure - cell phones, watches, ... ? Well, thanks to the smart kids over at Carl Hayden High School (also check out their blog) you can now buy a ROV-in-a-Box Project Kit for a mere $250 USD.…
The NAO Humanoid robot from French robotics company, Aldebaran Robotics, was recently chosen by the RoboCup Standard Platform League to be its new standard platform. The league, formerly known as the Four-Legged League, used to use Sony's AIBO robot as it's standard platform. However, since Sony…
Ugobe is busily preparing for an October launch of its dinosaur artificial-lifeform, Pleo, by releasing a series of "Behind the Scenes" videos on the making of Pleo. Also video that has popped up online, is a parody of the Budweiser "Wassssup" commercial featuring Pleo. Yo…
Keepon, a robot designed to study, "dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot" gets his big debut in a music-video featuring the music of Spoon. The robot, designed and built by Hideki Kozima, and programmed by Marek Michalowski, has four degrees of freedom, two…
The 10th annual, international, AUVSI sponsored, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) competition wrapped up Sunday. For the third straight year it looks like University of Florida's SubjuGator has taken first place. UF is followed by University of Central Florida with their year-old, rapid pr…
RoboCup 2007 is going on right now (July 3rd - 10th) in Atlanta GA, on the campus of Georgia Tech University.This international competition pits teams of robotic soccer players against each other.This year will see the addition of the brand new "Nanogram Demonstration challenges",…
Here's an interesting post from Engadget . Disney has rolled out an interesting muppet mobile in its Disneyland themepark. The very Segway-esc creation is supposed to be the invention of Professor Bunsen Honeydew and his talkative sidekick, Beaker. The vehicle roams around the park and entert…
If you've ever need a digital servo but have balked at the price, the Open Servo Project should be an attractive option. The project seeks to develop software and hardware to replace the internals of standard servos like the Futaba S3003 and the Hitec-HS311. OpenServo is an open community-based pr…
To break our month of silence (Masters Thesis research, sorry) I thought I'd throw in some humor, via Engadget. Listen as a caller to the San Francisco Chronicle go berzerk over the phrase "pilotless drone". There's also some humorous remixes.The moral of the story? Some folks ne…
Starting Saturday, February 3rd, Ugobe will offer it's robotic dinosaur, Pleo, for preorder. The price is expected to be around $250, and Pleo is expected to ship sometime in the 2nd Quarter of 2007 (April - June).Pleo features over 30 sensors, a video camera, SD and USB ports, a 2hr battery ru…
WowWee Toys, probably one of the largest robotic toy manufacturers, has announced three new additions to it's robotic lineup at this year's CES show. In addition to the hugely popular Robosapien line of toys, you will soon be able to get a robotic panda, RoboPanda and spider-like robot, Ro…
The folks from the DARPA Urban challenge have issued a press release (PDF) detailing the prizes for the competition. The top three finishers will now be awarded $2,000,000 USD, $1,000,000 USD, and $500,000 USD respectively. Originally, they were only going to offer trophies to the winners due to …
Lem from Robots-Dreams has written an excellent article for ROBOT Magazine on the first ever Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup. The event took place on December 10th in Tokyo, Japan. The robots competed in 5 meter sprints and in a 2 minute performance/demonstration category. The fastest human controlle…
