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Robots

Robot Sculptures

Sunday, July 29, 2007

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Gordon Bennett makes robot sculptures out of old and new found objects.  “The parts are found in various places including garbage dumps, basements, construction sites, and garage sales. They are inspired by Norman Bel Gedes and Raymond Loewy whose visions of the “Modern Age” helped shape industrial design of the 40’s and 50’s.”

I love that each robot is unique and comes with its own numbered metal tag.  As a former metal sculptor and current robot-head, I’m also drawn to his mix of old and new design. The retro becomes modern and vice versa. Each robot has such personality.

Visit his site to purchase and see the current robots.

Posted by emily chang on 07.29.07
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Pleo: designer life form

Friday, April 07, 2006

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Pleo is a “designer life form” created by Caleb Chung, the creator of the Furby.  The Pleo looks like a miniature dinosaur toy, but it’s much more - stuffed with 38 sensors to detect light, motion, touch and sound, it can respond with fluid movmenets and its skin is smooth and stretchy.  I’ll be looking for one of these when they’re released this fall.  Story at CNN or see the more link for full text.

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Posted by emily chang on 04.07.06
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Smart Cars

Thursday, December 29, 2005

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The MIT Smart Cities research team’s car. Image: Franco Vairani/MIT Department of Architecture

Two recent articles reveal the possible future of cars - powered with intelligent algorithms, semi-autonomous, and made for urban and natural terrain.

From Say Hello to Stanley in Wired:
“Stanford’s souped-up Volkswagen blasted through the Mojave Desert, blew away the competition, and won Darpa’s $2 million Grand Challenge. Buckle up, human - the driverless car of the future is gaining on you.”

From Robot car: streets ahead in cities of the future:
“...the MIT team started from scratch to come up with their own concept: a stackable, shareable, electric, two-passenger car. “Imagine a shopping cart - a vehicle that can stack - you can take the first vehicle out of a stack and off you go,” says Mr Chin. “These stacks would be placed throughout the city. A good place would be outside a subway station or a bus line or an airport, places where there’s a convergence of transportation lines and people.”

Posted by emily chang on 12.29.05
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RoboSapien

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

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I’m going to buy RoboSapien v2 (only $229 USD)!

RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by Wow Wee toys. The RoboSapien is preprogrammed with moves, and also can be controlled infrared by the included remote control, by a personal computer with the help of an infrared transmitter, or from an infrared equipped PDA.

He is capable of walking without the assistance of wheels on his feet, grasp objects with either hand and throw them, and has several different vocalizations. The remote control has 21 different buttons. With the help of the shift button, you have access to 67 different commands that the robot can execute.

[Via Delicate Genius]

Posted by emily chang on 10.12.05
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Asimo robot running

Friday, December 17, 2004

Cool video of Honda’s Asimo robot running.  (Also see my previous post on Sony’s child-shaped walking robot.)

Posted by emily chang on 12.17.04
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Kid robots jogging

Friday, December 19, 2003

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Newscasters seemed to be mocking Sony’s child-shaped walking robot that can now jog.  Personally, I think it’s amazing that the robot can now actually jump and lift itself off the ground. 

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Posted by emily chang on 12.19.03
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Bots

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

“Sometimes you feel like you just want to pet them,” says one of the computer scientists who works at SRI International, speaking of the more than one hundred little red robots (called Centibots) that wander the company’s halls as part of a military project funded by DARPA, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Centibots are designed to conduct surveillance in hazardous areas, spot intruders, and so forth. One of the project’s leaders explains: “They autonomously decide
where to go. Nobody is controlling them… A commander could tell the SWAT team, ‘You are looking at this, and here is the guy we want and this is what he is wearing.’” The Centibots cost about $4,000 and are built from off-the-shelf components, including ordinary WiFi cards for communicating with each other and cheap PC cameras that send images humans can interpret. 

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Posted by emily chang on 12.03.03
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Personal Robot PaPeRo

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

The PaPeRo robot can recognize up to 650 phrases and do all kinds of things like 1) wander around a room using visual and ultrasonic sensors avoiding furniture and obstacles. 2) look for human company and even take a nap when it becomes tired, or if it fails find anyone. 3) when PaPeRo has a message for someone it will search for that person and deliver and more.

Visit the PaPeRo site

Posted by emily chang on 02.11.03
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