[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

The Shadow Robot Company let
us know about a great funding opportunity
in the EU called ECHORD. Get
your robot project proposal in by 1 Dec for a chance at 12 months
funding for a staff plus hardware. The
PlasticPals blog has some photos and information on
the Russian AR-600 humanoid robot. If you're in need of some Java free
software for most commonly available servo controllers, check the newest
version of ServoMaster. Joanne
Pransky, the Robot Psychiatrist, wrote to tell us about a new
"low-cost" industrial robot arm from ST Robotics, the R12-500
Firefly. If you buy one, maybe you can combine it with MobileRobots,
Inc. new MT400
"build-a-bot" autonomous robot base. Amber Johnson writes, "We just
posted an article: 10
Unbelievable Robots Transforming Medicine". Rog-a-matic sent a link
to a giant
beetle robot built in Japan. And the Swirling
Brain spotted stories
on tiny
sea-going robots, an update on the Robopocalypse
film by the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, the
worlds first Arabic-speaking
interactive robot, and EVOLTA,
a running, jumping, toy robot.
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