Posts Tagged ‘General’
Robot With Big Head Serves Ice Cream
17, Aug 2010Well, it’s nothing BotJunkie readers haven’t seen before… A Motoman robot, serving ice cream. Only this time, he’s got a big head. Yay? Um, sure, yay! And if you liked that, here’s a Motoman robot with a smaller head (but sunglasses) wielding a golden shovel (and using those new Robotiq grippers that we tweeted about [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: dexter, General, humanoid, motoman
Robots With Guns: Potentially Dangerous Since 1932
16, Aug 2010When we wrote about Alpha the robot back in March, we mentioned that it wasn’t exactly the safest machine to be around:
“Once it fired its pistol without warning, blasting the skin off [its creator's] arm from wrist to elbow. Another time it lowered its arm unexpectedly, struck an assistant on the shoulder, bruised him so [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: alpha, General, retro
Neato XV-11 Update: Robots Confirmed To Be Shipping
29, Jul 2010A bunch of you have been wondering what the deal is with the Neato XV-11 robot vacuum, since it was a month ago that Neato said they’d started shipping their pre-orders. We got in touch with Neato, and they’ve confirmed that the robots are shipping to people who placed a pre-order. If they seem to [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: General, neato, Vacuum, xv-11
Lazy Robots
13, Jul 2010This is what happens when you mix robots and beer.
Thanks Alex!
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: General
Robot Baby Matrix
2, Jul 2010Mad props to Erico Guizzo from IEEE Spectrum for coming up with this robot baby matrix, which is pretty self explanatory (right?). Robot baby matrix… That’s my official phrase of the day. Click to embiggen.
Robots include:
Nao
M3-Neony
Nex…
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: General, Uncanny Valley
Willow Garage PR2 Graduation Party
27, May 2010Remember how Willow Garage decided that it would be kinda cool to give away 10 11 PR2 robots to deserving research institutions worldwide to mess around with? Last night was the official PR2 graduation, where the winning teams got to meet (and dance with) the PR2s that they’ll be taking home with them to do [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: General, live, PR2, Willow Garage
Perching UAV Sticks To Walls
26, Apr 2010Stanford’s Biomimetics Laboratory is full of all kinds of neat stuff, and when we were checking out Stickybot during National Robotics Week, we got a tip about this awesome perching UAV, developed by Alexis Lussier Desbiens.
“A flock of small, unmanned air vehicles flies quietly into a city, maneuvering among the buildings. They communicate as [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: General
One Wrench to Rule Them Each
26, Apr 2010Or twist them all. In the dark! That’s what designer Junjie Zhang has on the brain, that intention in this project. This is a wrench that’s got several settings in one single piece of non-moving metal. One hunk. Tell me about this project, …
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: fellow americans, General, george washington, Living, multiwrench, wrench, wrench party
Robot Infographic
13, Apr 2010This infographic is a nice National Robot Week-y overview of the industry. It doesn’t have any info that will shock dedicated BotJunkie readers (not even the bit about the cow milking robots), but it’s fun to glance through and has cute robot graphics.
The only thing I take issue with is where the artist says that [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: General
Awesome Roomba Dissection Tutorial
7, Apr 2010Dino Segovis of DinoFab.com gives us the breakdown of a Roomba 4000 in a 20-minute, 2-part video packed with tons of digestible, relevant information!
Top 5 Things We Learned:
The Roomba 4000 is very hacker-friendly, in that is has innumerable sensors and motors, most of which are easily disconnected and repurposed.
If you’re taking apart your used Roomba, be ready [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: Consumer, Dino Segovis, Dissection, diy, General, hack, hacking, Roomba, Roomba 4000, Roomba Hacks, teardown