Pleo “brain surgery” (video)
Creepy cool video of a Pleo’s “brain surgery” from Pleo Dreams.
Robotics
Making a robot can be an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s the perfect combination of creativity, engineering and problem solving. However, if you’re just getting started in robotics, it can also be overwhelming. To make things easier for those who are just starting out, we’ve put together some tips and tricks to help makers bring robots to life! From the basics of assembling your robot to software implementation, these pointers will give you everything you need to get started on your robotic adventure!
New bots from WowWee
WowWee unleashed a whole slew of new robots which we’ll see hacked up and modded soon, here’s a round up of coverage/videos/images from Engadget and Gizmodo on the ground at CES now (Consumer Electronics Show). Bots: Alive White Tiger Cub, Alive Lion, Alive Panda Cub and Alive Polar Bear Cub – Link. Femisapien – Link. […]
Pipe robot doesn’t smoke a pipe
This robot, designed by Jeff Terrell consists of dense PVC plastic piping for the body, its head moves 180 degrees left and right, and a strip of red LEDs under his mouth light up when it is speaking. The bot also uses a head mounted video camera and tracking software to integrate computer vision. We […]
Procrastinator’s Christmas present idea: i-SOBOT
If you still haven’t found that special (geeky) someone something, how about giving the gift of mini-humanoid? He farts (and makes fart jokes), he lifts his leg and urinates like a dog, he plays air guitar (and air drums). He’s a 6.5″ tall frat boy. He’s i-SOBOT, at your command. Read my review of i-SOBOT […]
Japan’s ministry of economy – robot of the year 2007
Pink Tentacle brings you this year’s robot of the year for 2007 – Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced the winners of the 2007 Robot Award. The top honor of “Robot of the Year†goes to Fanuc’s super-fast two-armed industrial robot system equipped with visual tracking functions, which is optimized for […]
Wii Nunchuck controlled robot
Frank writes – I connected a Wii Nunchuck controller to an Arduino, which takes the data from the controller’s I2C data bus, decodes it, and send the data to the robot with a radio transmitter. Charlie uses a radio receiver to get the data, and it will control the drive servo system and the pan […]
Print-bot final project
Some students at Georgia Tech built this sweet print-bot, built on a iRobot iCreate. Love the way the talc “ink” interacts with the pile of the carpet to look like stitchery. Go GT! The Print-Bot – [via] Link