After interviewing I-Wei, I told him that his robots reminded me of Miyazaki’s animation work and he told me that he was in fact an animator by day and steam-roboteer at night and found inspiration with Miyazaki’s work. The walking steambot captured my imagination. I want to see one of those locomotive size walking down […]
I found CTP in the artbot section of Robogames with his Arca Musarithmica. Check out his photoset of it and watch the video. This experimental musical instrument gets it’s name from an autonomous musical instrument invented by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, in the 16th centurey. Kircher was a brilliant inventor, scientist, and creator, but […]
quality=”high” width=”320″ height=”256″ name=”movie” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”> While in San Francisco, I was invited to videotape a walkthrough of the Survival Reasearch Labs. SRL has been making industrial sized remote control machines and performing with them around the world since 1978. Violet Blue was my host and she showed me the workshop, machines and materials that […]
Watch the Video Rob took some great photos. Check them out!
It’s day one at Robogames 2006. While at the games tonight, I ran into Mark Sherman who makes innovative robots. In this video he shows his snake bot and a lego robot that draws octagons and circles. Click here to get the video (MP4) delivered automatically with iTunes. This video will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and […]
We visited iRobot last week and took a ton of photos of the evolution of their bots, from the Roomba robot vacuum (with its open interface) to the PackBot – Photo set and MP4 video.
Nate and Jesse give some advice on how to make a Rube Goldberg contraption and Jesse walks us through the entire machine at Earth Sanctuary. Click here to get the video (MP4) delivered automatically with iTunes. This video will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and iPod video devices – Link.
