[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

After I recover from All-Con, ask me about crazy
stuff going on in hotel rooms full Storm Troopers at 3am involving
Wonder Woman, Aaron Douglas, three roboticists and large amounts of
alcohol. Meanwhile, how
about some random robot news? David wants you to check out some cool
video of the Autonomous
Paintball Senty Project. Remember that G1-controlled YARB Robotics
Blimp we mentioned a while back? The folks at Surveyor are now
selling a fully
assembled 66" YARB equipped with the SRV-1 blackfin camera, 802.11bg
WiFi, battery, charger, just about everything but helium. Vincent Lopresti of the
Spaceminers sent us some video of their progress towards a space elevator
robot. They hope to win the Elevator2010 competition
but could use few more donations, so help them out if you can. Cassie
Bowman of NASA let us know about a cool 2009/2010
Mars Exploration Rover calendar (PDF format) you can print out and
hang on your wall. No news roundup would be complete without some
Swirling
Brain news. He sent us a BBC story on experimental bionic
eye surgery, a Guardian story on military
applications of nanotechnology, and Telegraph story on the
future of robot medics in the army. Know any other robot news,
gossip, or amazing facts we should report? Send 'em our way please.
   

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