Robonews
Bowling, industrial robot style
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If you like things like coil gun armed robosapiens, then you'll thank [Aaron] for sharing his teams quest for the ultimate in stupid robot tricks. They hauled a 2800 pound industrial robot to the desert and used it to toss bowling balls... at an innocent RV. To top things off, they even [...]
Hackit: Cocktail Robotics
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Here is a special edition Hackit in honor of Roboexotica. Ever since making the decision to attend Roboexotica we've been speculating on the type of machines we'd like to see at such an event. Here are a handful of ideas:
Iceware via rapid prototyping: As we type this post, [Bre] is in [...]
Real robots from movie designs
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Thanks to Star Wars, Plenty of people have built their own R2 units. Pixar's next movie has been running trailers for a while, and there's already a group(free membership required) devoted to building real versions of the SGI robot star: WALL-E. I guess I'll have to call it reverse-forward engineering. WALL-E [...]