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Helicopter Robots Building Autonomously

rosicrux — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:11:31 +0000

Robot Overlord Scenario #6378

Big Dog new video leaked

rosicrux — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:29:54 +0000

Gibson Robot Guitar – on the wishlist, but I’ll never afford one

rosicrux — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:15:58 +0000

This guitar’s features didn’t really sound all that impressive at first, but that’s because the first news article I read didn’t really explain very well. Just watch this Gibson video below that shows a how-to on operation of the guitar. Anyone who plays will drool, especially if you love alternate tunings.

This is officially part of the Les Paul line. First off, this thing will tune the guitar for you, on the fly. Not with some helpful tones that help you tune by ear, but with actual servos on each key that turns and tunes the guitar for you. It will also automatically change to any alternate tuning programmed into it on the fly. And to top it off, it takes most of the work out of stringing the instrument. All of this combines with a MSRP of $2499, which actually was much lower than I was expecting, due to the fact that many Les Paul’s already cost about that much.

The AIBO returns

rosicrux — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:35:25 +0000

Ever since my robotics class ended a year ago, I thought I would never have my hands on a AIBO again. The professor made sure to express his disappointment while telling us that Sony discontinued the AIBOs and, in fact, the entire Sony robotics program.

This is despite the fact that AIBOs are so good, and relatively cheap compared to other completely programmable walking robots. The AIBO was left to scavengers in the various Robosoccer leagues. And as servos failed and plastic cracks.. so would the poor little dog fade out of existence.

And then today, I see this photo:

I don’t even know what magazine this is, and I couldn’t find a bigger image. The print is illegible except for a few words. I’m sure we’ll hear more about it in the future. I will update this post with a bigger pic, if I find one.

So, all we really know is, it’s going to be a Playstation 3 accessory. That’s very hopeful since it could hardly cost mor ethan the playsation itself, so it will likely be much cheaper than the original AIBO. But that could also be bad, in that it could be a dumbed down version of the original.

one step from Robotech

rosicrux — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:21:41 +0000

fully controllable, portable exoskeleton:

When they start speaking of “autonomous operation”, you can visualize the beginnings of Cyberdyne.