[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

This week's roundup starts with a reminder about the upcoming World
Premier of
Bots High, Joey
Daoud's documentary about high school students participating in
Battlebots. If you're into remote controlled machines smashing each
other, check it
out. There's an interesting Robotics
Trends article on an AI control system for spacecraft called, no not
HAL, but sysbrain. Alexey Burbin
of Russia emailed to let us know about his cool Transformable
Worm drive for amphibious robots. Pablo Rivera wrote to let us know
about his new project, the International Programming
Club; their goal is to teach more people programming and they plan a
robot programming tutorial series. Finally, no roundup is complete with
out some news from The Swirling
Brain. This week he sent us a Singularity
Hub story on the X-47B UAV, a PopSci
article about a hamster with a cat-proof robot exo-skeleton, and an
Escapist
article about California robot spotted buying scones in a local
coffee shop. Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing facts we
should report? Send 'em our way please. And don't
forget to follow us on
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