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…
