Recently in Robotics Category
anybots has designed the this awesome dynamically balancing walking humanoid robot. The video is spectacular! I love the way the other robot is poking it to try to make it fall down.
- Motion Planning for Humaniod Robots
- BDI - Big Dog
- Robots playing soccer video
- RobotSavvy website
- Space Robot Bonanza! < this is hilarious!!
Popsci has an article about growing your own home, as does Physorg.
I have been talking about this for years. I always liked the idea of growing it from one seed or spore, similar to the way that a mushroom sprouts overnight from a spore to the top heavy structure that it is.
In my vision I see it growing very quickly and then hardening or petrifying to a usable structure.
You would have to feed it some sort of material perhaps some type of organic waste. (maybe soylent green)
Their process is probably closer to happening then my crazy idea. I think it would be a combination of bio-engineering and nanotech.
This is a different type of growing but in the same vein.
Contour Crafting will print one for you layer by layer.
squidoo post on Arborsculpture
Growing Home
The Chair that grew
Plantware
The man that grew his own chairs
Treedome
suicidebots is a cool new blog dealing with all things robotic.
For more roboty goodness check out:
robot-dreams
combots
robogames
This suit was developed by Matsushita to help partial paralysis patients rehabilitate the rest of their bodies.
it weighs only 4 lbs and will only put you out a mere 17,000 dollars.
I keep saying that robotics are going to be the next big DIY hobby like: Metafilter has a great post on a bunch of robot stuff here are some highlights.
Video of Korea's Android woman.
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT!
Press Release
Video of LAYERED-X
It's only the beginning people.
Robot Descending a staircase :) (apologies to Mr.Duchamp)
The FIRST 2006 Championship Robotics Competition is going on tommorow here in Atlanta, at the Georgia dome!
It is free to the public.
Art Nouveau and Robots, two of my favorite subjects combined in one pic. courtesy of worth1000's latest photoshop contest
robots photoshoped into art
