Here’s the amazing Crabfu’s latest creation. In other fu news, I-Wei’s Swashbot3 won Gold Medal for Best of Show at RoboGames last weekend! Congrats, mate! Related: Swashbot build videos Crabfu’s SwashBot 3, now crabbier Say hello to the Swashbot
Robert Oschler, of RobotsRule, sent us news of these new videos WowWee has just released, showing their “Femisapien” (ugh) robot, which features poseable scripting. In the first video, WowWee (and BEAM) robotics guru Mark Tilden shows how the scripting works. The second, rather goofy, video shows two bots fencing as they play back their scripts. […]
My pal Jesse Hurdus, who helped me out on my robot book, was also part of Virginia Tech’s VictorTango Urban Challenge Team. He writes to Robots.net: “Thought I’d send some interesting news your way. Team VictorTango’s base vehicle platform for the Urban Challenge (which placed third, just behind Stanford), is now being sold as a […]
Here’s an episode of EngineeringTV featuring a gecko-inspired wall-walker being developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Waalbot Wall Climbing Robot
Bens shares video of his Atmega168-based bot mapping and solving a line maze – This was my first attempt at making a maze solver and I wrote the code from scratch the night before our last local robotics competition, so there’s plenty of room for improvment (for example, it would be cool if it could […]
Via Suicide Bots comes this amazing mechanical walker with this caption: Giant mechanical spiders take away some of the hurt in the world. Yes. Yes they do. MoltenSteelMan: Walking Beast [via]
Kristi Morgansen of the University of Washington, has been working on developing underwater robots that are maneuverable, not disruptive to the environment, and can work as a team to collect data in 3 D’s situations – that is, jobs that are dirty, dull, and dangerous. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or […]
