Humanoids? We Gotcher Humanoids RIGHT HERE!
April 30th, 2007 by SBSo we’re sure you’re wondering to yourself “Self? I have a hankering to enter *something* into that RoboGames thingydoo, but I Just. Don’t Know. What!”
Say you want a nice simple humanoid in which to compete in Kung Fu or the Agility or all those other exciting humanoid competitions.
You poke around for a bit and discover the ugly truth about building one from scratch:
“Oh Noo! Humanoids, they are so very complex!
They are hard to build and break if you look at them funny! I do not own a mill nor do I have a big giant brain with which I may re-invent the Humanoid Wheel! Whatever shall I do?”
Well, fear no more Faithful Reader. We have an outlet for all your robot-building needs. Trossen Robotics has just consented to partner with us for RoboGames 2007!
We love Trossen for their huge assortment of robots, kits and everything else, plus they have a spiffy blog from which we steal from which we gain inspiration!
There’s a kit here for every taste, from the hyperreal anime cosplay goodness of the Manoi series, to Robonova and everything above, below, betwixt and between. We all know you’ve secretly been wanting an AT-ST for your very own, now you can have one all for a reasonable price and a few hours dealing with tiny, tiny screws.
Trossen is going to have all kinds of good schwag at Robogames, like sticker and fliers, along with some really spiffy deals for RoboGames attendees!
Make sure you stick the stickers somewhere really inappropriate, like your mom, or the girl’s bathroom at the Uptown, because nothing says Awesome like random robot schwag in unexpected places.
Thank you for providing us with this opportunity, Trossen Robotics, We thank you.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
So I gotta question. Keep in mind I’m a scientist and not an engineer, and even then this may seem to be a stupid question:
Why are robots small? Is it the cost of larger servos? I mean they’re basically toy-kit sized.
And maybe I’m coming at this with the imprint of science-fiction-movie robots, but I keep waiting on a life-size (!) robot kit.
Am I just silly? I’m silly, aren’t I?
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Man, you asked for free standing bipedal robots, they gave you freestanding bipedal robots.
You wanted robots that could do Kung Fu, Okie Dokie, Kung Fu Robots.
You asked for robots that could run, WHAT DID THEY DO!?! They gave you running robots.
NOW, you are telling me you want ‘em BIGGER? Jebus people, Patience! Patience I say!
They can only grow ‘em so fast!
Walking is a shit ton harder than wheeling, which is why Asimo, the biggest one so far, occasionally meets with an accident.
Wait a couple years and I bet there will be walking androids running around all over the place.
*Then* you’ll ask why they don’t do the dusting as well as Mom used to. Sigh.
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:24 am
Ah, the ever-demanding public - give us an inch and we think we’re a ruler.
Coincidentally, I stumbled on this quote in my morning web-news-delium:
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
- Eric Hoffer
December 17th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
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