8 Aug 2008

Xr-B3 - Trossen Robotics Project

  Trossen Robotics just completed their latest project contest, the Xr-B3 didn’t win but it is a very cool creation! "He is powered by an AVR ATMEGA324P micro controller on a custom board that I made. He is using an XBEE module to communicate with my PC... (posted on 8 Aug 2008 by Hacked Gadgets)

15 Jul 2008

Mower: The Robotic Lawn Mowing Sheep

Yep, you read that right. A robotic sheep that will mow your lawn while you lie down in the sun sipping a delicious strawberry daiquiri. The sheep, named Mower, has been designed by Osman Khan, a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s, with... (posted on 15 Jul 2008 by Geeks are Sexy Technology News)

13 Jul 2008

Useful robots may be here sooner than we think

“The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth — BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that... (posted on 13 Jul 2008 by Pito's Technology Blog)

13 Jul 2008

Parallax Tank Bot

  This robot has lots of cool technology such as bluetooth, pan tilt camera, Parallax microcontroller and the list goes on. This would make for a great robotic platform for making many cool projects.   (posted on 13 Jul 2008 by Hacked Gadgets)

26 Jun 2008

Video: iPhone controls robot - 10 million iPhones = 10 million robots

Section: iPhone + Communications, iPhone SDK & Apps If you find it too hard to control your vacuum, Rodrigo Guiterrez and Jeff Craig of the University of South Florida have created a native iPhone app to allow the iPhone to control the iRobot Packbot... (posted on 26 Jun 2008 by Appletell)

10 May 2008

Propeller QuadRover Robot

  Robot builders no longer have to settle for low power and hard to maneuver robotic platforms. Parallax has come out with this QuadRover Robot which is based on the powerful Propeller microcontroller. Not cheap, but have a look at what comes in the... (posted on 10 May 2008 by Hacked Gadgets)

2 May 2008

Mumbling robots more pleasing than the silent type

Robots are good for plenty of things, but having a meaningless chat generally isn't one of them - something that has to change if a group of Japanese researchers are to be believed. (posted on 2 May 2008 by Digital World Tokyo)

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