This Week in Making: Walking Mech Cosplay, SeaCharger’s Return Home, and More
This week, a cosplayer suited up as Overwatch’s D.Va, the SeaCharger tried to find a way home, and a prankster finds his way backstage.
Continue ReadingThis week, a cosplayer suited up as Overwatch’s D.Va, the SeaCharger tried to find a way home, and a prankster finds his way backstage.
Continue ReadingAfter Damon met his autonomous boat in Hawaii after launching it from California, he set its course towards New Zealand.
Continue ReadingDamon McMillan built a robotic boat. Not just any robotic boat. This one is sailing across the world’s oceans. And it’s just simple and elegant enough to work.
Continue ReadingSelf-driving cars are in the news almost daily, but they are not exactly in my automotive budget for this decade. Today, that has changed. While this car might be smaller and not capable of giving me a ride, it’s still autonomous and, best of all, it is a project that I absolutely want to build! The […]
Continue ReadingAt the Bay Area Maker Faire, we saw one of the coolest autonomous robots ever: Rhoeby, a navigation-capable hexapod. While the robot is built from a customized version of a standard ROBOTIS Bioloid “spider” kit, the real magic behind Rhoeby is the LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) system. LIDAR systems work in a similar fashion to radar. The system sends […]
Continue ReadingStarting today in Pomona California, and continuing through all of tomorrow, 24 teams will put their robots through a series of eight difficult tasks that must be completed within one hour.
Continue ReadingVessels is a robotic art installation consisting of fifty autonomous robots floating around in a pool and interacting with their fellows using a variety of sensors.
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