Archive for the 'Robots' Category
Zym 2.0 was born on Monday 8th April 2008 at 2:29am
He was delivered by c-section, and weighed in at a whopping 10lb 9
Name to follow….
Suddenly, monkeys, computers, ukuleles, robots, and games dont seem that interesting anymore 
OK, so its not strictly speaking a robot playing a uke, but its pretty close
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cmbLF4STJc
More of this kind of thing, i say!
Meet BIGDOG. A great name of a robot, especially since it does look like a Big Dog! Either that or two blokes facing each other in an kind of reverse pantomine horse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
How cool is that? For a moment i honestly expected it to leather the bloke who kicked it!
A great article in ‘Popular Mechanics’ on the use of Robots within the US Army, and a preview of what we could expect to see in the field within the next five years.
Last June the Army deployed the first-ever armed UGVs. Three SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Remote Direct-Action System) robots landed in Iraq, each equipped with an M249 light machine gun. These UGVs are essentially guns on tracks, a variant of the remote-control Talon bots routinely blown up while investigating improvised explosive devices. When the trio was approved for combat duty, the potential for historic robot-versus-human carnage lit up the blogosphere. Never mind the dozens of air-to-ground Hellfire missiles that have already been launched by a squadron of armed Predator drones over the past seven years—this was a robot soldier, packing the same machine gun used by ground troops.
Link: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4252643.html?page=1
Maffu’s new robot overlord
I dont know many people with robots, or rather i didnt, until Maffu showed me this beast!!!
This is either MASSIVE, or Matt is a tiny tiny man!!
I was hoping those things above his hands were for playing badminton, but apparently not. Matt says…
Those are his ‘gauntlet sensors’. They help him to walk without punching things. Somehow.
He can see, but not very well in low light and only in an arc of about 90 degrees in front of him. His ‘GS array’ (as I like to call it) comes in handy when he’s flailing his hands around like Joey Deacon.
I WANT!!!
whats that, not enough robots?
Im working on it, but there havent been any interesting Robot related stories for a while.:(
In the meantime, visit Robot Island for all your Tin Toy Robot needs.
From the NY Times…
On Thursday, the 12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity.
She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan.
Monkeys = Crazy
Robots = Awesome
Monkeys + Robots = Crazy Awsome!