Giant mechanical spiders take away some of the hurt in the world:
Just *listening* to it is awesome. See the giant stompy monster action from a different angle here.
[Thanks Alexander Rose! Merci Beaucoup pur les fotos, Tristian Sabatier!
One of the cool things about RoboGames is all the people we meet from different walks of life. Most are not engineers. Many are artists, some are blue-collar workers, some kids, some white-collar, some retirees…. You get the picture.
Of all the many people I’ve met, one of the most talented is I-Wei Huang, who made the above steam powered robots. He’s also a creator, animator, rigger, screen play writer, and voice talent (yes, he really is that multi-talented) and he’s currently looking for a job.
If you’re in need of an amazingly talented robot builder, animator, illustrator, thinker, or doer, I-Wei is your guy (in my experience, work ethic is more important than IQ or talent, but I-Wei has all three in spades). Look at the below examples, and then recruit him.
I must say, I-Wei has the single greatest resume I’ve ever seen. I wish that I had the balls to write a resume like that.
Further proof that the Netherlands is still cooler than we are:
Payment is automatic too. It just magically gets debited from one’s account. Way to never, ever have to get out of the car ever again. As The Rotor Says, “I Love Living In The Future!”.
Further reading over at Reuters.
The Orb Swarm has been blogged by Radiolab, a show on WNYC that explores and experiments with science, philosophy, sound and everything else.
They have written a very nice article. Read it here. They have also linked to an intriguing short doc on how the swarm works, explained by the excellent Michael Prados, Simran Gleason, Coreyfro, and Steve “‘Dillo” Okay.
I have embedded the video here too. Also check out The Orb Swam Blog for up-to-the-minute Swarm news and updates, and and The Rotor Show (A fine product of Rotorbrain Industries) for more Swarmalicious video.
The New Space Station Robot Asks to be Called “Dextre the Magnificent”
“In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future at “Dextre the Magnificent.” Brandishing power tools that would make any handyperson blush, the mobile servicing system thanked humans for creating it and promised a glorious future where humans would retain an important role in the new robot order. Dextre was deployed last month to help build and service the International Space Station. As seen in the above picture, Dextre is truly a technological marvel, wielding long arms capable of handling both small tools and large modules with precision dexterity. ”
NASA [via Bot Junkie]
There are some freaking stupendous papercraft artists out there, but nothing beats this excellent mock up of an *actual piece of paper!*:
Yeah, they could have just had it up on the laptop screen like everyone else, but they used offset printing and probably raised embossed lettering to get that real, authentic “paper” effect! Wow! You just can’t do that with a laser printer nowadays.
It makes me long for older, more authentic-feeling technology. Maybe that’s why Steampunk is so popular.
[Via Laughing Squid via Robot Pirate Monkey]
Or Passover, whatever.
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THE SOUNDTRACK! AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA [cough]
I luv luv luv СЛАВА РОБОТАМ (loosely translated - “word of the robots” (although with Russian grammar, it could also work as “Word Up to the Robots” (q.v., “Slava Bogu”))
I miss St. Petersburg somedays. Then I recall my friends being killed by the Mafia….
This is like the sixth time Worth 1000 has had this as a theme, but it’s cool each time:
There’s about 40 different fine art prints which have been photo-shopped to have it part robot…
Because when robots appear in Marie Claire Italia, they are well and truly part of the popular lexicon:
[Thanks Le Boing]
. . .The Squid beat us to posting our wonderful new RoboGames 2008 poster, created by the superlative Josh Ellingson, upon whom Mr. Robotics has a complete robot-crush.
Ain’t she pretty?
Speaking of which, RoboGames is coming up June 13-18th, 2008 (duh) THERE IS STILL TIME TO REGISTER YOUR ROBOT.
“*My* robot?” I hear you cry, “Why, it’s just a dorky little thing made out of spoonstraws and a BASIC stamp!”
All the better, we say, bring it on down! RoboGames has over 70 events in which to participate, there MUST be something your robot fits into!
“Hey wait! What about those of us who don’t have a robot yet?”
Never fear young apprentices, there are so many ways to learn about robots it’s not event funny! Be a Maker! Learn an Instructable! Become an Evil Mad Scientist!
Indulge your redneck know-how and adapt your science fetish for good and come out and play with us!
“That’s too hard! I just wanna watch!”
All right, fine, if you just wanna watch, and don’t want to take part ion what could be THE MOST FUN YOU HAVE EVER HAD IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE (seriously) you can buy tickets here.
Yes, people do buy the VIP passes, and love them.
Registration closes in two months! Think up something, and we’ll see you at Fort Mason!
In yet another episode of living the life you wish you had, last Friday I extracted myself from the RoBunker and went to witness The Head Rotor and Al Honig, world famous artists, show off Chassis the beer pouring robot.
Ky00t, thy name is Chassis:
More pics after the break.
(more…)
We journeyed to the southland last Thursday nigt to partake in a fun little event organized by the the AAAI, or the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
The topic was robot racing and the guests were none other than Sebastian Thrun, of Stanford University, the winner of the DARPA desert Challenge; and Red Whittaker, of the CarNAYgie Mellon robot racing team.
They both gave lovely presentations, and made me want to cover them in gooey scientific lovin’.
It appears there is some sort of machination going on over at Instructables which merits mentioning.
Mostly because the robot is cute.
I am sure the folks over on the Instructables forums will do their best at darkly hinting at Interesting things to come, I’m sure. . .
*With love to Tom Waits. . .
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