Did you ever get the thought that pretty soon everyone might be made redundant by a robot? PR2 Mailman might seem like a good way to cut an extra salary out of the budget… and it probably is, unless you work in the mail room. in which case you should be very, very afraid. If you don’t work in the mail room, you can laugh it up – for now – just remember that just [...]
The Lego NXT bot that you see above makes the near impossible task of solving one of those V-Cube 7′s seem like almost light work. Granted, it does take the Android-brained Lego machine a little over 38 minutes to get the job done – but it is a task that most humans would fail to complete in the same amount of months. [Singularity Hub via Walyou]
Joules is a tandem cycling robot that actually does what a tandem cycling partner is supposed to do – it pedals along with you. Silly, perhaps, but no more silly than tandem bicycles (which are actually quite fun when you ride them). [Rainy Island via Dvice]
The Cube Stormer is allegedly the fastest all-Lego cube solving robot that has ever been built. While not in any sort of position to confirm or deny those claims, I am able to tell you that it is, without a doubt, the most badass looking Rubik’s bot I have ever seen. From the maker: The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements with a lego web camera to scan the [...]
“Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil” for the robotic age. Price: About $40 [Fashionably Geek]
These toy robot hands, which feature five jointed fingers on each hand can be used to hold small objects, which makes the $600 price tag kind of a lot. You need to be in Japan (and serious about your robot hands) to pick up a pair. [Rakuten via BBG]
From the information that I could find, this impressive transforming robot build is the work of Kevmag 2000 for a robotics class. All I can say is that I hope to see more of his work. [Make]
The video is simple enough, a large musclebound man is rendered into a quivering mess by an iRobot PackBot packing a Taser. Today they zap us with Tasers, tomorrow they render us into fuel. [RobotStockNews via BotJunkie]
A book turning robot might seem pointless, but when one really sits down and thinks about it, there are people who for various reasons cannot turn a page in a book, and there are some pretty books out there too. Book Time, the book turning robot is designed with such people in mind and will find its way into nursing homes and public libraries and probably not become a convenience device for the chronically under-motivated. [...]
While the Ponginator serves no practical purpose whatsoever, it gets an awesome vote simply for its sheer size. Thanks to the bucketloader that it is built upon, it can reach a towering three stories in high, from where it can play loud music and fire ping pong balls at a blistering 170 mph. [Geeks are Sexy via Tech Chee]
Crabfu has gone out and built himself an R2-D2 steambot, which he is calling R2-S2. The result is a cool looking R/C bot with a steam engine. [Botjunkie]
A British Antarctic Survey research team has created a robot submarine that is powered by humble alkaline D cells, 5,000 of them to be exact. The unmanned “Autosub” can travel up to 400km at depths of up to 1600m before it makes a return trip to pick up 5,000 fresh D cells from the mother ship. It should see action at Antarctica’s Pine Island in less than two months, where it will be investigating ice [...]
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