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It seems like Haibao, the Gumby-like mascot character for EXPO 2010 Shanghai China has become the utlimate transformer. The popular figure has appeared in artist reditions as a blue Shrek, Keroro, Ultraman, and even Hellboy. So, it should come as no surprise that 37 blue Haibao robots are being deployed to assist visitors to the exposition. According to the official EXPO 2010 website, the robots stand 1.55 meters tall, come...
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How in the world did we manage to miss this classic bit of robot comedy when it was first posted two years ago? We’ll never know…
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Registration is open for the MINOS 2010 event coming up April 10th & 11th at Royal Holloway, University of London. For those not familar with the event, it is a fantastic opportunty to not only see great micromouse and line follower robots in action, but also to hear how it’s done from the top designers. Typical technical presentations include in depth coverage of algorithms, sensor and chassis design, motor control,...
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Taking about robots replacing us humans in daily life, it looks like it won’t be long before the friendly bartender at our neighborhood bar or pub turns robotic. Moriyama-san pointed us to an article by Robomedia2010 featuring this enterainment robot application developed by Eager in Osaka: Of course, the system is just a concept mock-up at this point, but Eager has big plans. They envision bartenter installations with multiple female...
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While catching up on our backlog of reading over the weekend, we ran across an interesting article via Robomedia2010. The article covers the Embedded Technology RoboCon (robot competition), which is interesting enough by itself. But, what really caught our eye was this striking graph: The left axis and blue line correspond to the number of participants while the right axis and bars indicate the number of teams entered. In 2002,...
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Robots_Dreams_ROBO-ONE_technical_conference-330 Originally uploaded by Robots-Dreams. The ROBO-ONE organization holds regular technical conferences to give more visibility to the sport/hobby and transfer/share knowledge. It's a fantastic opportunity for novices and newcomers to learn the inside details of humanoid robot construction directly from the top ROBO-ONE competitors. The 12th ROBO-ONE Technical Conference, held last Saturday in Kawasaki, featured presentations by the creators of Aerobattler MON(*)Star, Kinopy, Hammerhead, KENTA, and Automo 06 (Wakka)....
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Looks like Dr. GIY isn’t the only one with a dancing robot. RobotGrrl91 has her MANOI AT-01 humanoid robot dancing autonomously in response to the drum beats of Yankadi music. The occasion was the Clarkson University Spring 2010 Activities Fair.
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Robots_Dreams_ROBO-ONE_technical_conference-300 Originally uploaded by Robots-Dreams. While it wasn't part of the official presentation schedule, Sugiura's Tiny Wave humanoid drew a lot of attention, especially when it donned Gundam headgear.
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With the next major ROBO-ONE competition just weeks away, the champion builders are ramping up their efforts to field not only the strongest robot for the battles in the ring, but also to capture the attention, and hearts, of the judges and audience. One of our long time favorites, Dr. GIY, definitely plans on surprising and delighting everyone at the competition. Here’s his latest, mind-blowingly cute, robot music video creation:...
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Once again, we’re reminded that 3D printing is already a reality instead of a a distant pipe dream. In this case, Matt Bunting at the University of Arizona Robotics and Neural Systems Laboratory, used a Dimension 3D printer to create a unique hexapod robot with geometry that couldn’t be easily manufactured using traditional CNC tools and technology.
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If you’re on LinkedIn, you’ll definitely want to join the new Amateur and Hobby Robot Builders group.
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Just a quick heads-up to Kondo KHR-3HV humanoid robot owners and other users of the Kondo RCB-4HV robot controller board. Kondo just released a new Heart To Heart4 software update, version 1.2.2. According to the release notes, the update includes additional functionality includes a link function, expanded conversion functions, percentage adjustment to a number of frames, syncing of the current robot position with the application display, retention of the last...
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Tomio Sugiura’s amazing Dynamizer humanoid robot is truly a legend. The ROBO-ONE champion biped is known world-wide for it’s ability to perform human like tasks including skiing, baseball pitching, fishing, cooking, slicing vegetables, and mowing the lawn. Based on Dynamizer’s technology, Sugiura developed, and is currently marketing, Tiny Wave, the red robot featured towards the end of this video:
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If you happen to be in the UK March 13th & 14th, you’re in for a real treat. It turns out that the UK Maker Faire 2010 in Newcastle will feature quite a number of unique robot creations including a Robosavvy contingent of home built humanoids, Matt Denton’s humongously awesome hexapods, and many others.
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We often get into discussions and debates about the potential for 3D printing, especially as it relates to robotics. We tend to take the positive side of the debate, and paint a rosy picture of what we believe to be a not-too-distant future where researchers, developers, and even hobbyists will be able to crank out real-world manifestations of their dream concepts, and test them under practical conditions at reasonable cost...
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Just watching those robots make pancake stacks makes me hungry! Unfortunately IHOP doesn’t have any branch restaurants over here. Many thanks to Ollie.
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Danny Choo had the opportunity to try out the new Parrot AR Drone quad-rotor helicopter at the office and is calling it the “Ultimate add-on for your iPhone/iPod.” How much did he like it? Well, just count the number of times Danny says “Oh my god”, “Oh my god”, “Oh my god”… in the video below. Looks like it must be time to have another Tokyo CGM Night so we...
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IMG_3698 Originally uploaded by AntonOlsen. Sighted at Toy Fair 2010 in NYC by Anton Olsen.
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IMG_3595 Originally uploaded by AntonOlsen. Interbots's Quasi 2.0, a cute little 12 year old robot boy at Toy Fair 2010 in New York.
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Here’s another detailed video (courtesy of K. Moriyama) showing the new Kondo KCB-3WL wireless robot controller demonstration last weekend at the 2nd ROBO-ONE Humanoid Helper Project competition. It will be quite interesting to see how this product does in the market since traditionally Kondo has depended on their proprietary R/C communication technology and effectively closed controller architecture. In the past Kondo customers that needed more wireless capability or access to...
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