It's autonomous, GPS guided, has a complete snow-munching digestive tract, and poops ice bricks with a smile.

Submitted by jason - 2008-01-06 19:42:41
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Tags - robot snow snowblower autonomous

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Craig from the Twin Cities Robotics Group demonstrated his homemade R2-D2 droid at Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry.

Here's a link to the video. Check out how it's able to transform to and from biped and 3 wheel mode.

Submitted by jason - 2007-11-07 12:16:38
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Here's a video of a small robot Humvee that transforms into a biped. I've seen a couple of these types of robots before, but this one's auto and robot modes are quite convincing.

Oh.. and it's got some sick dance moves.

Submitted by jason - 2007-10-11 13:33:24
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This is a cool interactive hexapod robot made by Matt Denton. Using facial recognition, it's able to track you around and take a photo of your face if you hold it's gaze for too long. In all, its responses are pretty lifelike and worth checking out.

Submitted by jason - 2007-09-26 13:10:33
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Tags - video robot hexapod spider

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One more example of how everything in tech is bound to get incredibly small. Tiny, cheap, smart and expendable -- what's not to love?

"A life-size, robotic fly has taken flight at Harvard University. Weighing only 60 milligrams, with a wingspan of three centimeters, the tiny robot's movements are modeled on those of a real fly. While much work remains to be done on the mechanical insect, the researchers say that such small flying machines could one day be used as spies, or for detecting harmful chemicals."

Submitted by jason - 2007-07-20 13:30:46
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Tags - technology robot micro robotics fly insect

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Mr. Woo makes incredible walking robots from recycled junk parts. Incredibly, he's doing this in rural China, with no formal education or training.

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-31 13:05:20
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Tags - video china robot robotics walking junk junkbot

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Video and description of a wall/ceiling climbing robot developed at CMU. It uses a dry elastomer adhesive to stick to the surface it is climbing on.

I'm hoping this puts us one step closer to an autonomous shower cleaning robot.

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-02 11:08:26
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Tags - robot wallclimbing cmu gecko

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