[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

Time for a robot news roundup! Heimo Aga writes, "I just posted a four-minute video
about this year's Robot Sumo European Championship in Vienna".
Several readers sent links to the creepy robot
mouth that's making the viral video rounds these days. VIA let us
know about their latest Pico-ITX creation, the ARTiGO,
a tiny PC based on a 64-bit VIA Nano CPU. While not exactly an embedded
processor, the little box can run GNU/Linux and is powered by 12V,
making it handy for certain types of robots. The Swirling Brain swirled
up a couple of stories for us too including a PopSci
story on South Korean underwater search and rescue robots and a CNET News
story on the successor to NASA's well-known Robonaut that will be
called, you guessed it, Robonaut 2. Know any other robot news, gossip,
or amazing facts we should report? Send 'em our way please. And don't
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