Since 1994, Carnegie Mellon has been running the Mobot Slalom competition, where home built autonomous robots follow a white line through a sequence of gates as fast as they can.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.04.28 at 01:31
I’m just glad it didn’t somehow scramble his innards. [ Wall-E ].
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.04.28 at 00:47
Wondering just how we mere mortals were going to even give a robot enough smarts to completely overtake our societies? Oddly enough, some of that artificial brain power could come from studying the way fruit flies, um, fly.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.04.26 at 11:11
Oh bum bot. We remember when you were fresh out of the hands of creator Rufus Terrill. Now look at you -- featured on the Colbert Report. You may have seen photos of this vagrant-deterring robot before, but you haven't lived till you've seen the hard-hitting, in-depth coverage that Stephen Colbert delivers on it.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.04.25 at 13:29
I don’t watch much American football. Every time I do, there seems to be a whole lot of standing around followed by a bunch of identical looking guys piling on top of one another.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.04.25 at 06:32
These little laser-equipped robots may not scare you that much, but this is how it all starts: right now, they’re a foot tall, but give them a couple generations and they’ll be crushing us under their giant metal feet.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.04.25 at 05:16
When you need a forest fire controlled, you can either use a little bug, or you can this gigantic, saw-equipped robotic behemoth. I know what I’d be more entertained to watch… This forest fire “Clear Cut” robot is sadly only a model, albeit a very detailed one, containing about 600 parts and built over a period of 6 months by student Jordan Guelde.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.04.25 at 04:55
Japan's oldest "modern" robot -- the 10-foot, 6-inch GakuTenSoku -- has been awakened in Japan. Gone are the inflatable rubber tubes of the original 1928 android build by biologist Makoto Nishimura.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.04.25 at 02:50
Look Japan, we know you love your robots but is it really prudent to equip them with them frigging laser beams? Why not just hand them maps to our vital organs and special hoses to juice our babies? You're looking at an actual photo from the Blazer tournament held this week in Fukuoka City, Japan.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2008.04.24 at 00:32
This friendly robotic pachyderm likes nothing better to have a dirty urinal inserted into his rear, at which time some mysterious mechanical guts work their magic, and about 10 seconds later, poof, the urinal is all nice and clean and sterile and smelling (I assume) of sweet elephant backside.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2008.04.24 at 00:31