Blaser tournament unwisely fits Japanese robots with lasers -- PEW PEW - Engadget
Look Japan, we know you love your robots but is it really prudent to equip them with them frigging laser beams? Why not just hand them maps to our vi read more »
Mars Lander Starts Moving Its Robotic Arm
NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander has successfully lifted its robotic arm, mission managers announced Thursday.
“All of the joints are healthy, and we’re raring to go,” Matthew L. Robinson, the lead engi
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Associated Press reviews Sony's Rolly. Verdict: It Sucks Eggs
One could procedurally generate AP ledes describing how Sony lost the portable music market it created. A computer, however, could never generate gloriously spiteful remarks like "it's a conversati read more »
Mars Phoenix lander has near-perfect landing, says "it's really cold out here"
Things are looking good for the Phoenix lander which touched down on Mars at 4:53pm on Sunday, May 25. The NASA nerds are reporting an almost perfect landing, with the spacebot tilted only one quarte read more »
Dutch robot Flame walks like a human
Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it pro read more »
Video of a Nanosoccer Nanobot
This is a follow up video to our post about the upcoming Nanosoccer 2008 US RoboCup Open. Folks over at Boing Boing Gadgets discovered this amazing video of a "tiny 'bot 'dribbling' a 'ball'." read more »
How to Undress Your Lady (Using a Big Digger!)
If your going to do it, you may as well do it using a large mechanical digger…
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The Chief Cook Robot
Sylvain Calinon is a postdoctoral fellow who is working on humanoid robot and imitation learning at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland in the Le
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