[Tyler]

Random Robot Roundup
     

By popular demand, another robot news roundup is here. First up is news
from our
friend William Cox. You probably know William as the guy who spent the
last decade maintaining the GoRobotics
blog, which was recently acquired by Roboshop. His new project is RobotBox a community site for showing off robots you've built.
Some other robot building
friends of ours over at Willow
Garage are celebrating the 3rd
anniversary of ROS,
one of the leading robot operating systems software packages (no doubt
because it's released as open source to preserve the user's software
freedoms). Lisa Devaney writes to tell us about a cool new
educational program in UK schools that "aims to teach youth about the
future workplace in 10-15 years time, demonstrating how robotics will
influence career choices". It's called Robots and Avatars. And of
course, The
Swirling Brain swirls on, this week swirling up a Register story on
CMU's
flying robot jeep, a cnet story on Japan's new
flying surveillance robot, a cake
decorating robot, and an update on military
exoskeletons. 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
twitter.
   

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