The X PRIZE Foundation, Google Inc., LEGO Systems, National Instruments, and Wired’s GeekDad will announce “MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge” today at National Instruments NIWeek 2009.
Someone already has a bot built for the task. Now we just need some rules!
Tags: challenge, LEGO, moon, robotAn amazingly detailed humanoid. At first I thought this was stop-motion animation, but it is definitely a robot.
More detail with google translated Japanese text is here: Clockwork/Hina
Tags: humanoid, RoboticsYouTube – Cajun Crawler Exhibition 08.
This makes me think it’s the bastard child of a VEX Walker and a Segway.
Geosystems Situational Awareness Mast (aka Zippermast) from Travis on Vimeo.
Geosystems Situational Awareness Mast (aka Zippermast)
An ingenious method of lifting a camera much farther than any standard boom or scissor lift could. I’ll add this to the list of things to try someday.
UPDATE: Travis points us to the original post with a lot more detail. I’ve updated the link above and embedded a higher quality vid from Vimeo. Thanks!
With much ado, and just in time for Black Friday, I present to you the new and exciting HEXBUG.com site. Now with 100% more Awesome. I didn’t have much hand in the layout or graphics other than to say wow. My job was to prop up the web server, database, load balancer and build a shipping tool for the warehouse.
YouTube – The Evolution of Robotic Dance.
The new MechRC humanoid, available for $600 at Trossen.