The Aldebaran Robotics Nao robot is highly expressive and is quite the sight to see by itself. Each Nao robot is about the size of a small child and can interact with users through multiple sensory input. Now imagine a room full of 20 Nao robots dancing in unison. A most impressive, er, feat indeed.
Etsy seller Jenine made this amazing bit of flameworked Pyrex: a 3″ humanoid figure with articulated joints, all made of glass. [via Boing Boing]
Makers Hideyuki Takei and Reo Matsumura have built this fantastic animatronic Android statue controlled with an Android handset over Bluetooth.
I love how this Mindstorms robot is able to emulate a real human gait rather than having the slow shuffle that most walking robots feature. Of course it is held up with strings, but it shows the potential of the (toy) technology. This video was created as part of our project in the Department of […]
Laurens Valk shares how to make a Lego Segway using a standard NXT set plus a HiTechnic gyro sensor. One of the most notable features of the robot is that it packs NXT-G, the unadmired “default” programming language driving the NXT microcontroller brick. Up until now, all Lego Segways used one of the high-octane alternatives […]
Packed with infrared and ultrasonic sensors, the ArduIMU Quadcopter from maker Jose Julio can hover in place and avoid objects.
Rachel over at CRAFT spotted this collection of 50 freely-downloadable papercraft models from Botropolis. [Thanks, Rachel!]
