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“MoonBots” Challenges Parent-Child Teams to Conduct Google Lunar X PRIZE Missions with LEGO Robots

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.

via “MoonBots” Challenges Parent-Child Teams to Conduct Google Lunar X PRIZE Missions with LEGO Robots | Moonbots.org.

Someone already has a bot built for the task. Now we just need some rules!

Norton Commando Transformer by Steve Twist

YouTube – Norton Commando Transformer by Steve Twist.

via botropolis

YouTube – ArcAttack – Dr. Who theme

YouTube – ArcAttack – Dr. Who theme.

A recent video of Arc Attack at Afterlife in Dallas.  Jump to 0:46 for the start of the Dr Who theme.

I’ve officially added a singing tesla coil to my list of things I need to build soon. Just imaging a VEX robot like Will’s Tank platform carrying a 4′ tesla coil around.

YouTube – Flight of the Conchords – The Humans are Dead

YouTube – Flight of the Conchords – The Humans are Dead.

LOL

YouTube – DIY Robot Lawn Mower

YouTube – DIY Robot Lawn Mower.

A cool home built robotic lawn mower.

VexE the Robot

Any similarities between this robot and a famous movie character are not coincidental.

Robot Uprising

Sean made the mistake of confiding in me that he has nightmares about robots waking up and attacking.

Inchworms Take 2

I shot and edited a better video of the Inchworms today.

HEXBUG Inchworm

Here’s a short video of the Hexbug Inchworm that we will release this fall.

Robot Lawn Mower.

Anyone want to cut my lawn for me today?  I really need to get serious about building a robot lawn mower.  What’s up with the commercial ones costing well over the $1k mark?  I’m thinking of building one starting with a Homelite 12 volt rechargable mower.  I should be able to put casters on the front, add a couple drive motors in back and some sort of bump sensor to turn randomly.  Should work like a Roomba on steroids.