The Powers That Be have seen fit to endow us with an intern! Our intern is Greg “Intern” Intermaggio (as in, “Hey! Intern!”) and he is adorable and, apparently, a glutton for punishment, seeing as he’s here at the Uncanny Valley, doing Lego robot stuff and helping us plan RoboGames.

Recently, Intern was corralled by Kids Talk Radio LA and they did a nice interview with him at the Computer Using Educators Conference in Palm Springs.

Way to go, Intern! Now get back to work.

Come to the RoboGames Town Hall, an informal conversation where robot builders, circuit benders, robosumo enthusiasts, combat people, kit bashers, software mutators, makers, doers, thinkers and all other nerds bent on robotic world domination can come on down and discuss RoboGames 2009.

Topics will include how to compete at RoboGames, how to get involved with the RoboGames populace as a competitor, volunteer, sponsor or other supporter, how to show off your robotically-oriented wares at RoboGames, and what we can do to make this year’s RoboGames a truly spectacular event.

RSVP at Upcoming, and tell your friends! At least, tell the ones who bow down to their robotic overlords. Mm, overlords.

The website pretty much says it all:

On March 24 from 1-5 PM EST hadto.net and FutureFarmers will be conducting a workshop called Human Powered Chatbot as part of the Reverse Ark at Baltimore Contemporary.

20 people will cooperate in a system of abstraction through simple rules to create a writing machine that will be connected to the internet via the Twitter and New York Times APIs

If you are interested in conversing with the Human Powered Chatbot you can follow it at http://twitter.com/human_bot on March 24 from 1-5 PM EST

During this time you can reply to ‘human_bot’ on twitter and it will respond to your messages.

[Thanks Bruce Sterling!]

Seriously, how has no one thought of this earlier? Aside,of course, from the whole “oh my god I just lost my finger” thing:

Geek Replaces Lost Finger With 2GB USB Finger

A Finnish programmer who lost his finger in a motorcycle accident has now replaced it with a prosthetic finger that has a USB drive built in. Jerry Jalava can now peel back his “nail” and reveal a 2GB “finger drive” for storing photos, movies and software.

Jalava had his left ring finger amputated last summer after crashing into a deer with his motorbike near the Finnish capital Helsinki. Given his profession as a computer programmer, the doctors treating him joked that he should have a USB “finger drive” and Jalava went for the idea.

[Thanks Vexed Magazine! (we found this through their twitter feed, which we have had for a while now.]

I have been inundated with these photos, which are cool, so I am passing the savings on to you:

Lobsterbots, LEMURs, ATHELETEs, Mr. Wu, NASA rovers, Big Dogs, plant putters, dino bots, rescue remedies, warehouse automatons, Philip K. Dicks and mechanical men, from all over the world, rendered in breathtaking technicolor.

If this doesn’t bring it home that robots are already the big thing. . .Mr. Saffo? Any comments?

[Thanks to Scott Beale and RICK! for the links]