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Finals of ROBO-ONE 19 6 Jan 2013 | 04:59 pm
No, I don’t know what happened to the post from earlier today. But it had a clearly inferior cut of a match from several years before this one: Now THIS is robot combat! (Yeah yeah, they’re still re...
2013 FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff Tomorrow! 4 Jan 2013 | 10:00 pm
Alright, enough videos–tomorrow marks the start of the 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition season with their annual Kickoff telecast. FIRST hasn’t released details on how to watch online, but with local ...
Tailgate Buddy: Robotic Power Wheels 3 Jan 2013 | 10:00 pm
When people find out I build robots, the first question is “Do they fight each other?” The second, almost always, is “Can you make me one that’ll get me a beer?” This senior design project from the Un...
Compact LEGO Swerve Drive 2 Jan 2013 | 10:00 pm
When most folks think swerve drive, they’re thinking something bulky and big. Color me impressed with how compact this one was able to be!
Dancing Robots for Chinese New Year 1 Jan 2013 | 10:30 pm
Okay, okay, so Chinese New Year isn’t for another month or so. But you try to find something appropriate for today and tell me you’ve got better than a crew of dancing robots. I now see why they canc...
Cheetah Robot Runs 28.3 MPH 31 Dec 2012 | 10:30 pm
Boston Dynamics (of BigDog fame) has the legs-in-the-real-world thing down. For reference, if you ran 28.3 miles per hour you would complete 100 meters in about 7.90 seconds. Usain Bolt’s world-reco...
Robot Wrestling from Robo-One 2006 31 Dec 2012 | 04:58 pm
Now THIS is robot combat. It appears they’re still remote operated, but I think we would all give a walking robot more of a free pass than the average wedge.
Hexcopter meets Hexapod 29 Dec 2012 | 10:00 pm
Continuing our series of robots that will likely doom us all in the future… (Via Adafruit)
Useless Machine: Pro Level 28 Dec 2012 | 10:00 pm
Take one part useless machine, one part busted printer, and you get a useless machine that’s reached the next level. (Via Hack A Day)
Where’s WALL-E? 27 Dec 2012 | 10:00 pm
Somewhere in the above-linked image by illustrator Richard Sargent is everyone’s favorite trash compactor. I found him, but it took quite a bit of searching! (Via MAKE)
