Sometimes you are in the mood for something moody, something fantastically stylish and ALSO something confusing and intriguing.
Behold: mannequins, automata, style for days and also …
people behaving … as … such???
(click through to the ‘tube for embiggening)
and thank you, the ever amazing Coilhouse!
From Neatorama, of course:
It’s really hard to say anything snarky about that, it’s just beautiful,and still works. Boggles the mind, really.
The Dutch artist Marco Kruyt is making beautiful things that move on their own, something we here always like to see here wherever possible.
Marco’s work is an exploration of the machine versus the living creature. A long time model maker, he delved into mechanical and kinetic arts, using his works in 2d and performance art settings.
From Baileybots, Marco’s website
Today, his work stands for a distinctive connection with our surrounding nature and all it’s organisms. Baileybots organisms are a link of numerical produced parts and handicraft. This process of linking is a key factor in his artistic practice.
The want to create life out of dead matter reminisces of the alchemists and inventors of past times. It’s this quality combined with current production techniques which makes it exciting and innovative.
It reflects the view of the maker, his attitude towards the global ecological situation, and life. The use of scrap metal is a telling example. The are clear undercurrents in his work, commenting on the current relation between man and animal.
If we get lucky, we’ll see some of Marco’s art at RoboGames 2012!
Submitted with minimal comment:
We <3 Robot Japan so flippin’ hard, we are eager for their presence at RoboGames 2012!
Thanks Robots Dreams!
Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here?
Check out this article by Phillip Torrone chronicling the development of wearable electronic tech - Ranging from music and video players/recording devices, to a huge variety of USB devices, and much much more!
I’ve always wanted to utilize my wrist real estate to my shoes for electronics of some kind. Many of the “wearables” I’m going to share are from my project archives, some are now “real,” and others are products that are out now. I think we’re finally entering an era where wearable electronics can look good and work well.
Mentioned in an earlier post dissecting Hero Jr., Jeri Ellsworth spotted in the depths of this article, this time with her Nintendo Purse!
Special thanks to Make Magazine.
Image Courtesy The Sonic Alchemists
Our pal Patrick Flanagan at Jazari Music has a nice piece up about Jazari Music over at Hack A Day about his music and how his robot band is evolving, and by “evolving” I mean “kicking ass and being awesome”:
As Patrick describes it, Jazari “fuses African rhythms,
algorithmic composition, computer music, and electro-mechanics into
beat-driven steamfunk.” The controls are quite unique as well. Originally, the controller was simply a Wiimote. This was limited, since one needs three fingers to hold on to it, so a new “springbok” device was born allowing all five fingers to be used to play music. The vocal part of the music is created using an Android program called “voloco”.
We were lucky enough to have Patrick come be a part of our excellent speaker symposium at RoboGames 2011 this year, thanks again Patrick, and thanks Heather Knight for putting our symposium together!
The sound of hundreds of pounds of metal slamming into each other, and the smell of burning rubber and fried electronics finally fades.
It’s been three weeks since the annual International RoboGames took place, and I think my hearing is finally back.
This year’s annual RoboGames was a huge success, and we’d like to thank everyone for coming down to the San Mateo Event Center and hope to see you again in October for The ComBots Cup!
For those not familiar, RoboGames is the world’s largest robotics competition! The 3-day extravaganza featured 239 teams from 17 countries competing in 59 separate events; including soccer, hockey, sumo, fire-fighting, kung-fu, and the ever popular (and dangerous) combat robots!
I’d like to send out a special thanks to the crazy Brazilian teams that showed up, as well as the Japanese teams that made the long trek out despite the obvious complications at home.
As an added bonus we were joined by Grant Imahara (of Mythbusters fame) and The Science Channel. They were filming a TV special that is set to air on Memorial Day Weekend, more news as we get it!
For those that want to check out what they missed (or relive what they saw), YouTube is overflowing with RoboGames videos:
Make sure to check out the combat, as well as humanoid events!
(Credit to Lem Fugitt and robots-dreams.com for the footage)
Lastly, a quick thank-you to our sponsors:
Google, Jameco, TechShop, The Robot MarketPlace, Neato Robotics, Willow Garage, Servo Magazine, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, Innovati, Robots-Dreams and FingerTech Robotics!
Check out more RoboGames coverage!
Jameco RoboGames Update
Wired RoboGames Coverage
IEEE – Humanoids at RoboGames
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-The Intern
In these trying times, some thought must be given to the small respites afforded by life in the 21st century. With an eye to this, we here at The Robotics Society of America (a registered 501c3 educational nonprofit, whee) are holding the Third Annual BarBot, a celebration of cocktail robotics and culture:
Full details and advance tickets HERE!
Join us April 1-2, 2011 at Parisoma, 169 11th St (at Natoma) in San Francisco. Cocktails, robots, and swingin’ music. Who could ask for more?
Like its Austrian sister event RoboExotica, Barbot 2011 will address the bigger questions in relaxation technology: Can a true man-machine interface achieve true transparency? Will technology morph to keep pace with eventual ubiquitous computing expectations? Are the margaritas actually any good?
All these questions and more will be answered during the course of two nights with robot music, swingin’ robot atmosphere, groovy entities both organic and manufactured, and some hot, hot science.
What’s more, it will serve as a delightful benefit for that most worthy of causes, The Robotics Society of America (501c3, remember?), proceeds to go to putting on RoboGames, the world’s largest open robot competition, dedicated to learnin’ kids good about Science, Math, Engineering and Technology.
In order to have a truly superlative BarBot scene, however, we need to add to our already burgeoning field of robots YOUR WONDERFUL CREATIONS.
Do you have a cocktail bot lying around collecting dust? Do you have components kicking around just *begging* to be made into human-serving, pleasure-giving automata (or semi-automata, we’re not too picky. . .)? Do you have a robot already in progress that would benefit from a deadline? Have you always wanted to build a thing from scratch and just needed a purpose for it? Are you in the greater SF Bay Area?
Cash assistance available for the neediest an most interesting cases. This means YOU.
Contact sb at suicidebots dot com
(or fill out the contact form over yonder —–> (under Information Is Sexy))
and tell us tales of your creations! Be a part of cocktail robotics history!
Now, get the hell off his lawn.
Mark Pauline, punk rock übermensch of Survival Research Labs gave a talk at the Sonoma County Museum of Art the other day, in which he related his experiences starting up SRL,trials and tribulations along he way, and how the damn kids can’t even fix a toilet nowadays.
This is the first of three parts for this talk, for the other two hop on over to SRL.org
SRL has made a move from the greasy innards of the city to the kinder more pastoral environs of the far north suburbs, to reflect the mellowing with age that affects us all. This just means that when you are hanging on the rear end of the exposed high-speed workings of the Big Arm in order to counterbalance the Running Machine, which is stuck on the truck and threatening to pull everything down with it, instead of skinning the hell out of your knees on oily concrete when the whole thing goes over, you end up up to you shoulders in positively pillowlike hay bales and sticks, not that anyone here has any experience with that, also, ow.
Gritty, we got gritty. West Oakland, CA, is not really the place for a family picnic on a Sunday afternoon, unless your family picnics involved metal recycling, used needle avoidance and occasionally fire (ours do, but I am told we tend to be the exception).
Alliance metal in West Oakland is one of those places to take your used robot combat arena for a little bit of quick cash to trade for that new speed controller or TI billet you have your eye on. Also, crack.
However, the constant rattle of shopping carts and danger of having your car, yard and person stripped for recyclables is abated somewhat, because they have some amazing art, made entirely out of junk, out front.
On the other hand, the center does provide a means of income for those who seemingly have no other means. Unfortunately, many of those people take their hard-earned cash and promptly smoke it or shoot it, leaving a trail of associated unpleasantries throughout the adjacent residential blocks. sigh.
Kal Spelletich, Robot Artist extraordinaire, does things with machines that should be marginally illegal, and probably are. He is having a show this Saturday in San Francisco, which you should go to if you are geographically situated.
HOLY MOLY(bdenum), Robo Bat Friends! Let me tell you about this new iPhone iPad iPod app for $2.99 that-
And I quote:
“Description
No 1 Staff Favorite in Japan!
LOVEBOTS by KIT ROBOT has arrived! The NEW Digital Robot Assembly Kit and Robot Avatar Creator, SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES.
Placing creative power in your hands! Join the loveBot
Presented by Award Winning WhiteWall Studios.
Forget the Golden Plastic Age of model kits, limiting the range of parts to one model and WELCOME to the Golden Digital Age.
Now Introducing LOVEBOTS, where you can create over 1.3 MILLION combinations of Robots out of the box!”
Check out the gallery of ideas on boingboing as there are lots of delicious and eye popping pictures to ponder while you get your iTunes on speed dial.
I leave you now with one final quote:
“We are asking LoveBot fans to send us their creations, as we plan to release The Art of LoveBots app book. “
Because this whole robot thing seems to be “in” among the young kids these days, Makerbot Industries is announcing Botacon, a DIY robotic symposium taking place this coming weekend in NYC.
The speaker’s list if formidable, and includes RoboGames‘ own Academic Chair for 2011, Heather Knight.
Heather Knight – Robotic Touch: Capacitive Sensing to Understand Human Body Language
Rob Gilson – State of the Replicators
Chris Connors – MakerBot and emerging technologies in the classroom
Dustyn Roberts – 3D without the Glasses: Making Assemblies of Parts
Laura Greig – Helping Paintbots Become More Than Printers
Kio Stark – 9 Ways to Make Your Robot Come to Life
Ben Combee – Put a Web Server on Your Bot
Erik de Bruijn – Open source innovation: On empowerment, architecture and ecosystems
Mr.Kim and John Sarik – Makerbot Printable Transistors and OLEDs
George Hart – Cool Geometric Forms
Zach Smith – Compilers of Industrial Revolution 2
Ilan Moyer – Gestural Design: Product Design in an Age of Personal Fabrication
Iem and Andy Heng and Zhang – Autonomous and Non-Autonomous Flexible Robot
Amy Hurst – Nickel for Scale – automatically customizing 3D objects to fit YOU!
Adam Mayer – Tiny Robots Everywhere
MakerBlock – How to be a robot dad
Raphael Abrams – The Nine Step Program to Make a Robot Puppet that Will Haunt Your DreamsThis is shaping up to be THE conference about DIY robotics and the bright future for automated everything. Be there!
So get your tickets, slot in your extra RAM and get yourself to NYC ASAP for robot DIY, PDQ.
We’re waking up with Electric Six a lot around our house these days. Here’s a totally non-gratuitous Robot Themed Song by those crazy awesome dance masters. Grids, romance, loose wires, gazing and blank stares, man railing against faulty technology.
Just in time to rock the weekend!
In our ongoing quest to post absolutely nothing of hard scientific value this week whatsoever, we bring you the tiny shenanigans of Mike the Robot, submitted to us eons ago via The Contact Form (remember The Contact Form?).
Jack Dow chronicles the everyday doings of his little pal Mike The Robot. This photo set is just gorgeously turned out. Also: Giggling.
The whole shebang is well worth poring over at length.
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