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Robotics => Robotics News => Topic started by: Tyler on November 04, 2008, 07:55:22 pm

Title: Random Robot Roundup
Post by: Tyler on November 04, 2008, 07:55:22 pm
Random Robot Roundup
     


Happy Election Day fellow roboticists! Don't forget to vote today. David
Cook of the Robot Room has
created an online
resister color code calculator; how many times have you wished you
had one of those when you were digging through your parts box? roschler let us in on a
sneek peek video of the
WowWee Rovio robot and a hands-on video review of the
Fisher Price Elmo Live robotic toy. Roland Piquepaille let us know that
robotic sensors being used to study Mount St. Helens
and he also blogged
about Australian defense robots. The Swirling
Brain has swirled up an unusually large pile of robots news
including Hammacher and
Schlemmer's special $99 price on the i-Sobot, Astrobotic's
private moon robot plans, an article on self-propelled
microbots that are actually tiny cyborgs made of bacteria and
machines, video of an expression
mimicking robot, schools
of autonomous robofish, a robot
service dog that can do everything a live seeing-eye dog can do, a
robot
maid built by Tokyo University, and an interesting blog post on the
possibe of a evidence
of a Global SuperOrganism.
   

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