Thanks to Robot Dreams and their Combat Robot Builders group, I now know about Frapper. Think of it as a mashup of Google Maps and Flickr. So, I created a "I Build Robots!" Frapper group. Go proclaim your love of robots with style! Let's get some good support here. Tell your friends. Tel…
Roboexotica (yes, read that right) is a convention dedicated to cocktail creating robots. Via BoingBoing, the submitter calls it, "a whimsical technology/art event in which amateur robotocists gather to demonstrate their cocktail-making robots. Real, no-fooling cocktail-making robots!&q…
A bit of bizzare news to break the radio silence (school is killing me). Via BoingBoing, "Tweety the Bird Rescued by Robot." "Tweety the cockatiel was stranded for two days after the building partially collapsed, undermined by a new tunnel." The bomb disposal robot used its rem…
... or, "How Robots are Freeing Slaves." Every once in a while you get a story that's both amazing and powerful. The story of how K-Team Robotics, a Swiss company, designed and built robot camel jockeys for Quatar, is one of those stories. You see, up until recently, small children …
For those of you knitters out there, here's a good homemade gift idea for your robot-loving pal/spouse/babysitter/etc. There's a gallery of the robots at the link in all sorts of poses appropriate to knitted robots. You can have your robot and sock-monkey duke it out. Monkies vs. robots. Ninjas vs…
There sure seems to be a lot of talk flying around about Daniel H. Wilson's book entitled, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion." When you see it both on Digg and Slashdot at the same time, you know there's a buzz going around. Wilson'…
Yesterday I received a preview copy of Robot Magazine's "premier issue." After having seen it in very rough form during RoboNexus, I have to say that the actual print version is even more impressive. For those of you familiar with RC Driver or Fly RC, Robot Magazine will be from the same …
It would appear that everyone's favorite dino-killer, the Velociraptor, isn't all he's cracked up to be. Instead of the disembowling-vicious-hunter, he's more like a attach-myself-to-the-victims-back-and-serate-him-to-death type killer. And all of this we know thanks to the loving help of robots. …
Continuing with their massive onslaught of robotic helpmeets for the elderly (can't forget Pero), a group from Osaka University has created a robotic jacket that will help stroke victims recover. Looking vaguely Metroid-esk (which came from Japan, BTW) the jacket reads the muscle movements from the…
The Consumer Electronic Association has listed robotics as a technology trend that is set to influence the next 12 months. Also on the list are content creation and obscenely large TV screens. Unusual, yes, I know. "A robotic future has long been talked about but so far has failed to deliver…
The great guys at Element Products Inc. sent me one of the Scribbler Robots they built for Parallax. I'm hoping to get a review of it up on the site in the next week or two. If I forget, remind me.
Robotics Trends, the industrie's new-found marking group (their website says, 'integrated media firm'), is sponsoring a "Robot TechZone" at CES 2006. For those living in a cave for the past long while, CES is the hottest electronics conference/expo in, well, pretty much anywhere. It's gre…
Well, I'm behind. Way behind. So, here's a some of the myriad of links that have come up in the past two weeks, that I just haven't had time to get up here. How about the Military's "pack animal" robot? Perhaps you can carry around your robot statue from an iPod box, while listeni…
Ok, so just a wrap-up on all the Scooba news: Scooba is iRobot's newest product - a floor cleaning robot, but this time it scrubs/mops your floors. The Scooba will cover 150 sq/ft (14 sq/m) of floorspace. The Scooba is programmed to cover each section of floor four times to get it extra clean. iRo…
picture - Engadget.com So, what ever happened to the Roomba programming API that was supposed to be released back in July? Well, I've got news for you. According to a reliable source (he said he'd get in trouble if I used his name) you can expect the API and serial interface information in the ne…
Yet another cool look at a new product. This time it's Wowee toy's RoboSapien V2. The second video clip is turned on its side, sorry. Cost: $249 Cool pictures are up on Flickr too.
