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The Lincoln Journal Star Online has an interesting article about telepresence doctor bots. The idea is that a doctor can check up on his patients without ever leaving the office, by way of a two way video conferencing robot. The way I see it, now he can bill you $500 dollars for that 5 minute (an…
It appears that New York Times journalists have all the luck, because this one got to review the latest from ZMP Inc., a cute yellow walking robot pal. Of course, the one central glowing eye does seem a bit spooky, but that's beside the point. Nuvo, who sells for about $6,000 (ouch) is, "mar…
When I first read that page title on Delicious I had visions of metal coils and current and ... dancing. However, I was wrong! Behold, a quicktime video of our favorite 80's cartoons breakdancing. Also, in related news, Transformers is going to be made into a movie. Oh the suspense!
The latest online issue of Sensors & Transducers Magazine is now available. Featuring a nifty little transaxel accelerometer, with a "sensitivity of 5 mV/g and a measurement range of В±1000 g peak", a "strain guage direct to PC" device, and a paper on remote ele…
News.com has done an excellent interview with iRobot's Colin Angle. About Roomba, Angle says the "... company has shipped 1.2 million Roombas", and that, "... we'll be announcing an API of sorts for it." That confirms our earlier post about it. On the "dissing Japan"…
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This is a shout out to all my students from the Duke TIP 2005 Robotics class! These guys just spent the last three weeks spending 7 hours a day building robots. That's hard core. Congratz are also in order for the originator of the curriculum, and my co-instructor, Ken Boone. We spent the …
I first found out about the Leaf Project about a one month ago when John Edwards showed off his newly constructed base for a robot built on the open source Leaf Project - A robotics project using artificial intelligence and vision. I later contacted John via e-mail to get his input on the project.…
Update: iRobot is going to relase the "hacking kit" sometime in November I was flipping through Business 2.0 and came across this about the Roomba: Ever wish you could dispatch a robot to grab you a beer? That day might soon be here, thanks to an as-yet-unannounced decision by iRobot. In e…
Everyone's favorite robots+art exhibit, Artbots, has announced it's exhibitors for this years show, to be held in Dublin, Ireland on July 15-17, 2005. 22 exhibits were chosen which encompass 33 different artists from 10 different countries. You can view a full list of exhibitors here. The projects…
Dragon Runner - military.comTwo news stories about robots in the military and how they are helping to save our soldiers lives: The first story, says that the enemy is wising up to their mechanical adversaries and are starting to target them. Better a robot than a soldier. The story focus' on the D…
I never could have imagined that circuit components could make such attractive jewelery. Seriously. Not only do I (a male) find it really geeky and hot but I have it from a reliable female source (my not too geeky girlfriend) that it's also quite cute. My favorite would have to be the diode choker…
Take a look at NASA's latest revision to it's Miniature Autonomous Extravehicular Robotic Camera (Mini AERCam) designed to help out spacecraft and ground crew see around and inside the spacecraft. The latest prototype, "nanosatelite", is 7.5 inches in diameter and weights around 10lbs. &…
The first time I heard about this guy, Theo Jansen, was in this news article. The video of one of his creations was amazing. Really amazing. "Theo Jansen creates unique machines that collect wind with their wings, and store the energy in bottles that he calls their stomachs." '"It …
Here's a pretty comprehensive article on Toshiba's quest for a "life support robot." They will be demoing the robots at the Prototype Robot Exhibition in Japan from June 9 to 19th. The will be demoing two robots - Robot one is able to recognize a specific voice in a crowd from any directi…
Check out the picture and tell me if it isn't a bit ... weird. No, not the guy, the woman - She's fake! She's yet another feature at the World Expo 2005 which we covered previously. It/she breaths in a human like manner, has 31 points of articulation in her torso, skin-like silicon covering, natu…
