MARIE: Rapid Prototyping for Robotics

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MARIE v0.3 Robotics Software Released

MARIE v0.3 Robotics Software Released 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
A Freshmeat announcement today indicates that MARIE v0.3 has been released. MARIE is the Mobile and Autonomous Robotics Integration Environment. It's intended for rapid prototyping of software for robotics applications. The project brings together existing components into a single integrated package. Among the software included is FlowDesigner, RobotFlow, Player, Stage, Gazebo, CARMEN, ACE, ARIA, Libxml2, wxWidgets, and the Expression Toolkit. All of the componets are Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL. For a more extensive description of what MARIE is and what it's good for, there is a detailed description of the project available. See also our story from last year on MARIE.

CodeFutures Enables Rapid Prototyping
with FireStorm/DAO 2.2

CodeFutures Enables Rapid Prototyping
with FireStorm/DAO 2.2 09/09/2004 03:46 AM
CodeFutures has announced the General Availability of Release 2.2 of its FireStorm/DAO Java code generation tool for data persistence. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

International Federation of Robotics
Hosts Groundbreaking Advanced Robotics
E-Symposium

International Federation of Robotics
Hosts Groundbreaking Advanced Robotics
E-Symposium 06/05/2005 11:53 PM
The Advanced Robotics E-Symposium will be held online on July 6 2005. Its international outreach, cutting edge topics and line-up of world-renowned experts already makes it one of the 'must-attend' fixtures of this year for organizations, academics, industries and government representatives. [PRWEB May 10, 2005]

Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference

Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
iRobot, Evolution Robotics, VIA Technologies, Robotics Foundry and Others Sponsor First Robotics Conference to Focus on Commercialization of Emerging Robotics Markets [PRWEB Dec 12, 2003]

Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota

Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
CNN needs to send his spy-outing slandering ass to the curb where it belongs .. CNN's Novak under fire for calling American Indians election thieves .. Native American-insulting bidness

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"Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota"

"Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota" 01/11/2004 03:46 PM

MARIE

MARIE 07/05/2004 07:16 PM
MARIE 0.1 "Tinker" Released

"Tanya Marie!"

"Tanya Marie!" 03/19/2005 02:42 AM

Exposé for Prototyping

Exposé for Prototyping 01/29/2004 02:49 AM
Mac OS X Panther's Exposé feature is a useful tool for prototyping. For example, if you have a bunch of... (54 words)

Burglars Grab Marie Antoinette's Jewels
(Reuters)

Burglars Grab Marie Antoinette's Jewels
(Reuters) 08/13/2004 11:04 AM
Reuters - British police are trying to track down jewelry once owned by the 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette, which burglars snatched from a west London house.

MTV hiring Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox to
cover Democratic convention

MTV hiring Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox to
cover Democratic convention 07/09/2004 04:52 AM

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Prototyping One-to-many Links with XSLT

Prototyping One-to-many Links with XSLT 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
In his latest Transforming XML adventure, Bob DuCharme explains how to use XSLT to experiment with one-to-many hypertext links.

Alpha Five: A prototyping tool to rival
Access?

Alpha Five: A prototyping tool to rival
Access? 03/21/2003 02:24 AM
CNET Mar 21 2003 1:24AM ET

Improve app design with prototyping,
modeling, and storyboarding

Improve app design with prototyping,
modeling, and storyboarding 09/09/2002 10:39 PM
CNET Sep 9 2002 10:11PM ET

Prototyping a Secure Multipurpose,
Mobile Chip

Prototyping a Secure Multipurpose,
Mobile Chip 04/10/2005 04:00 AM
A powerful, high-capacity chip currently under development has the potential to revolutionise daily life, doing away with many of the identity documents, credit cards and passwords people have to use each day. [PRWEB Apr 10, 2005]

The Bottom-line of Prototyping and
Usability Testing

The Bottom-line of Prototyping and
Usability Testing 05/28/2002 12:30 PM

Freescale and Virtio Bring Virtual
Prototyping to Cellular Platforms

Freescale and Virtio Bring Virtual
Prototyping to Cellular Platforms 06/17/2005 04:45 PM
Development Time Accelerated Through Virtual Platforms Software [PRWEB Jun 17, 2005]

Robotics: Grow Up!

Robotics: Grow Up! 06/17/2005 07:12 PM
Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine says, "Robotics: Grow Up!" and then tells the robotics industry to gets its act together. Lance does a great job in bringing to light what's wrong with the robotics industry by recollecting his experiences with a recent robotics trade show. Sadly, a lot of his points are completely correct. The robotics industry appears to be mired in myopic, over- schooled robotic geeks making piddly wall-detection robots that no one wants nor can they sell. His solution? Simplify your robot and run a cost-benefit analysis to see if it will sell. He says the Roomba meets that cost-benefit criterion. Check out the article to find out more about Lance's interesting observations.

IBM on Wireless Robotics

IBM on Wireless Robotics 12/31/2004 09:07 PM
IBM has posted a new developerWorks article on wireless robotics. The article explains some of the uses of wireless robotics - either human control of non-autonomous robots or for inter-robot communication between cooperative autonomous robots. It further breaks cooperative robots in marsupial teams where there is a mother-child relationship and competitive teams such as RoboCup soccer robots. A list of pitfalls that may be encountered when using WiFi for wireless robotics is also provided.

A New Face For Robotics

A New Face For Robotics 02/10/2004 02:52 AM
Slashdot Feb 10 2004 1:19AM GMT

Mobile Robotics

Mobile Robotics 04/07/2005 05:18 AM
New website launched

Robotics + Car = Hallucigenia

Robotics + Car = Hallucigenia 12/02/2003 10:15 PM
News for nerds writes "I4U has news about a new transportation concept, called The Hallucigenia 01, which is a working 1/5 scale vehicle prototype, designed by ...

Migrating to PowerPC for Robotics

Migrating to PowerPC for Robotics 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
IBM DeveloperWorks recently posted an article titled, "Migrating from x86 to PowerPC: Robots and networked applications". The article compares the PowerPC (or "Power Architecture" as IBM prefers to call it these days) to traditional Intel x86 and ARM processors. Migrating from one of these architectures to another is actually not too difficult if the software is based on Linux which runs well on all three platforms. Ultra-cheap methods of getting started with PowerPCs are mentioned, such as cannibalizing a Nintendo GameCube console or using a Kuro Box. The author, Lewin A. R. W. Edwards, has published a book with more information on the topic, called A Cookbook for Open-Source Robotics and Process Control.

Zero-g Robotics on an Air Hockey Table

Zero-g Robotics on an Air Hockey Table 05/28/2004 03:48 PM
Wei-Min Shen and other researchers from the USC Polymorphic Robotics Lab have been looking for a way to simulate zero-g robotics so they can develop autonomous robots that can assemble orbiting solar power stations and do other useful work in space. Their solution? Small robots called "pucks" that hover on a conventional air-hockey table. A new Nature article summarizes their work. The USC PRL website offers video of the puck robots at work including pucks assembling scale girders (MPEG), docking with each other (MPEG), and autonomously navigating (MPEG).

Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics

Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics 08/11/2004 05:12 PM
Generation 5 has posted a story based on the undergraduate dissertation of the site's webmaster, James Matthews, titled, "Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics in Japan: A Symbiotic Relationship" (PDF format). Robots in Japanese anime from Astro Boy to Akira are discussed. The paper suggests a relationship between Japanese pop-culture's image of robots and the acceptance of real robots in Japan.

Aerial Robotics Competition

Aerial Robotics Competition 07/23/2004 04:51 PM

Robotics and the Meaning of Life

Robotics and the Meaning of Life 07/20/2004 11:18 AM
The Open University in the UK, has found a practical use for Asimov's robot stories. They're being used as part of a robotics class, called Robotics and the Meaning of Life: a practical guide to things that think. The Laws of Robotics are considered in terms of real control architectures such as subsumption and on the practicality of using them to design safe robots. Asimov's Laws are just one part of a larger course that reviews the history and state of the art in robotics from R.U.R. and the Turing Test to Moore's law. Students get hands-on experience using a Lego Mindstorms compatible robotics simulator called OU-Robotlab. Required reading for the course includes Asimov's I, Robot, and Ruth Aylett's Robots: Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life.

Cornfield robotics in the Netherlands

Cornfield robotics in the Netherlands 06/15/2004 10:12 AM
BoingBoing reader Bas Suverkropp says:

The Field Robot event is kind of a miniature DARPA Grand Challenge, small robots must navigate through a maize field. Join Corn2Bwild, SANDRA, Wiedrobot and many others on june 17th and 18th as 22 teams from the Netherlands, Germany, USA, Hungary, Israel, Gambia, Poland, Nigeria,Ireland and Belgium compete in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

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Pyro, Python Robotics 3.1.2

Pyro, Python Robotics 3.1.2 09/02/2004 11:24 PM
Tools for programming mobile robots in Python.

21st Century Robotics

21st Century Robotics 05/19/2004 07:26 PM

PC/104+ Robotics Drivers for Linux

PC/104+ Robotics Drivers for Linux 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
A new robot control software package aimed at PC/104+ users has been released. The new software, called dio48s, includes drivers for the ACCES 104-DIO-48S digital I/O board, up to 8 Polaroid ultrasonic sensors, and an interface to a PIC controller for motor control with encoder feedback. Dio48s is Free Software written in C and licensed under the GNU GPL.

Behavior-based Robotics and AI

Behavior-based Robotics and AI 08/17/2004 01:32 PM
David P. Anderson of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group has written a combined review of two books recently added to the DPRG library, "Cambrian Intelligence The Early History of the New AI" by Rodney A. Brooks and "Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots" by Roland Siegwart and Illah R. Nourbakhsh. One of the books is based on the traditional artificial intelligence approach to robotics while the other presents Brook's behavior-based subsumption approach. This difference makes them ideal for a comparative review. Readers may also wish to read the review of the Siegwart and Nourbakhsh book posted last month here on robots.net. Readers wishing to learn more about Brook's ideas should visit his online archive of papers. Read on for the full review.

FIRST Robotics Championship Underway

FIRST Robotics Championship Underway 04/17/2004 11:21 AM

RadioShack's Vex robotics system

RadioShack's Vex robotics system 04/05/2005 07:03 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Today, Sam Mahserjian, a marketing manager for RadioShack, came by today to show me the new Vex robotics design system. I don't know much about hobby robotics, but I was really impressed by what I saw here.

The $300 kit, which is already starting to go on sale at RadioShack retail stores, has wheels, spin motors, gears, a programmable microcontroller, servos, a radio receiver, a 6-channel radio transmitter, and tons of Erector-set style hardware for building robots. I like the fact that you are encouraged to cut and bend the metal structural pieces to build you bots. They'll be selling sensors and effectors in the coming months, and the platform will be open enough that lead users will be able to develop and sell aftermarket sensors and components for it.

I want to find out what my garage roboticist buddy, Gareth Branwyn thinks of Vex. I'm going to ask him to write about it for Make.
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New Robotics Group in Massachusetts

New Robotics Group in Massachusetts 03/28/2005 01:42 PM
Pete Gray is forming a new robotics group in Massachusetts. If you're in the area and would like to get together with other homebrew robotics people, visit the Yahoo! Groups MassRobotics page and sign up. At present they haven't settled on a name for the group or an initial meeting date. Pete says, "At the moment, the group is just an 'online' entity, created just this month...although if enough people join up, I'm sure we'll become a 'real world' entity." You may recognize Pete from his work with New Micros on C compilers and assemblers for the Motorola DSP56F80x that's used in the IsoPods.

New Robotics Group in Pittsburgh

New Robotics Group in Pittsburgh 04/09/2005 06:21 PM
Dan Roganti writes, "I'd like to introduce our new Robotics club here in Pittsburgh, the The Pittsburgh Robotics Society. We're simply a group of people, mostly with engineering backgrounds, that find this hobby rewarding and fun to do. I've been involved with this hobby ever since high school, about 30yrs now. Since we are still rather new, we haven't a competition planned for this year. Although, we do have an exhibit planned for SciTech (Sep.30-Oct.9,2005) at the Carnegie Science Center You can read more about us on our website. We have monthly meetings on the first saturday of the month." The group also has a mailing list based on Yahoo!.

White Box Robotics Upgrades

White Box Robotics Upgrades 04/13/2005 11:07 AM

We’ve talked about White Box Robotics before, but now they’re releasing an advanced robot that is not just a PC case with wheels. The company is teaming up with Frontline Robotics in order to add advanced navigation and sound/video recognition functionality to their barebones PC-BOT. The 9-series can hold Mini-ITX motherboard, laptop hard and optical drives, as well as a few webcams and whatever else you can stuff into its bays.

There are going to be two flavors released May 10, 2005: a hobbyist system that has full motion and vision functionality and a commercial version that allows the 9-series to guard RFID-tagged objects and swarm on intruders. We’re waiting, as always, for the buzzsaw attachment.

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Company Home Page [Frontline-Robots]

NSF Robotics Research News

NSF Robotics Research News 10/30/2003 11:57 PM
The National Science Foundation has released a handy news summary that details many of their robotics and sensory research programs. You can read about tiny, two-wheeled robomotes, the COTS Scout family of robots, long-distance robot teleoperation, and other interesting areas of robotics research being sponsored by the NSF.

Pyro, Python Robotics 3.2.0

Pyro, Python Robotics 3.2.0 09/10/2004 05:39 AM
Tools for programming mobile robots in Python.
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Paro, the Therapeutic Robot Seal

Paro, the Therapeutic Robot Seal 12/02/2003 12:25 AM
Meet Paro, the therapeutic robot seal. Isn't Paro the cutest little thing you ever saw? Researchers wnat to make Paro, the little white seal pup robot, be the world's greatest therapeutic robot for the elderly. Paro will likely lower stress levels and gets the seal of approval from docs around the world, just imagine what warm fun they would be cuddled in your lap purrring and cooing. Believe it or not, Paro, even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most therapeutic robot. That makes me feel so good inside.

KiRo: Robot Foosball Player

KiRo: Robot Foosball Player 09/05/2004 11:09 AM
Roboticists at the University of Freiburg in Germany have perfected a robotic foosball table that allows a human to play against the machine. The intelligent software within the table has two modes; "reactive mode", in which it simple whacks the ball as hard and often as possible, and "strategic mode" in which the software does look-aheads based on the dynamics of the ball. The software never cheats by spinning and yet is able to score as often as once every 36 seconds. The university is licensing the technology to a gaming company, so you may soon be seeing a robot foosball table in a bar or club near you. For more information see the KiRo website or read the research presentation, KiRo - The Table Soccer Robot (PDF format).

Gizmodo Mashup: Media Player, Mini PC,
and a Robot Crab

Gizmodo Mashup: Media Player, Mini PC,
and a Robot Crab 06/03/2004 12:22 PM

Some good things from the always interesting SorobanGeeks' Akihabara News, including these Computex showing of a portable media player from MSI, the 'Mega View 512' (top right) and the Piston Socket 775 mini PC from FIC (bottom right) which looks an awful lot like those tube subwoofers, but may just be cylindrical for coolness's sake. And finally, just because I have a hard time resisting robots of any sort, but especially cheap (~$50) robot kits for kids, check out the latest in Gakken's 'Mechanical Animal' series of Mechamo robots: teh crab!
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A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot?

A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot? 12/18/2003 12:58 PM
It took years for researchers to figure out how to make a robot be able to stand and walk on two legs. In fact, it's so complicated, that some researchers are giving up on that idea and using Segway balancing technology on their robots instead of legs. However, the folks at Sony seem to have taken the concept of the upright walking robot one step further: they've figured out how to make a robot run. That's right, it actually leaves the ground at points while jogging along. It apparently needs a bit of a walking start to get up to speed, and even at running speed, it's more of a slow jog - where it's feet barely leave the ground. Still, it's a start, and with some more work, they believe they can really make the robot run.

Female Mine Exploration Robot

Female Mine Exploration Robot 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
Roland Piquepaille writes, "The grandmother of an engineering student at the University of Arizona has an old mine on her property. What could be inside? Would it be safe to explore it? She -- the student, not the grandmother -- decided it was better to send a robot inside and she teamed with another robotic enthusiast to build a radio-controlled rover to explore the mysteries of the old mine. The 18-inch-long and 7-inch-high robot can communicate with them via a 900 MHz radio modem and send them videos from inside the mine. Theoretically, the robot has a seven-mile range line-of-sight, but the team is not so sure. So the robot is also tied with a rope to pull it out of the mine if necessary, especially if it falls into a big hole. And did I mention this robot is a 'she'? They decided the machine was female "because the rover is independent, sometimes unpredictable and able to do the seemingly impossible" and they called her 'Green Meanie.'" You'll find more technical details and photos in Roland Piquepaille's blog. Jessica Dooley and Keith Brock, who built the robot, are both members of the UA Aerial Robotics Club.

Robot Stories Movie

Robot Stories Movie 02/13/2004 09:17 AM

Any Upcoming Robot Movie News?

Any Upcoming Robot Movie News? 12/29/2003 11:53 PM
Tonight we went and saw Elf. The kids loved it, but there wasn't any Jesus came as a baby to bring Salvation message in it *cough*the real meaning of Christmas*cough* so I didn't care for the movie as much as they did. Well anyway, while on the way out of the theatre I saw a poster for the new IRobot movie. I know that this isn't earthshattering news, but hey, the IRobot movie now has its own website according to the poster. Actually, the website has probably been around a while but, well, I finally just noticed it, so I thought I'd share. Looking at the website, I wonder if they're trying to do some sor of weird before the movie stuff like the AI movie did? Like what does it really mean when they say, "What are you going to do with yours?" Also, In other movie news, now that Arnold Swartzenegger is now gov of CA anyone want to take a guess as to whether the remake of WestWorld is still a go? I'm guessing probably not but one can still have some elf holiday spirit hope, can't they?

Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment

Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment 12/23/2003 09:31 AM

Man-and-Robot standup comedy in Japan

Man-and-Robot standup comedy in Japan 04/29/2004 11:28 PM
BoingBoing pal Steve Portigal points us to "a demo of Japanese speaking robot technology, presented as a duo-standup routine featuring one of Japan's well-known comics. The robot is called PaPeJiro. So, if the robot kills - does that violate [Isaac Asimov's] Three Laws [of Robotics]?" Link

Humanoid Robot Combat in Japan

Humanoid Robot Combat in Japan 08/17/2004 05:29 PM

World Robot Declaration Issued by Japan

World Robot Declaration Issued by Japan 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
The International Robot Fair 2004 started off with a "World Robot Declaration" yesterday. The declaration states three specific expectations that future robots must meet and declares 5 resolutions on what must be done to bring the next generation of robots into existence. It puts into words the Simak-like Japanese philosphy towards robots that we've been aware of in a general sense for years. Basically robots will be the companions of the human race and assist humans physically and psychologically while helping to keep the world safe and peaceful. The full text of the declaration is included below.

Robot pics from "Hallucigenia" event in
Japan

Robot pics from "Hallucigenia" event in
Japan 12/09/2003 04:58 PM
BoingBoing reader Dave says:

Check out this page at Gizmodo.com pointing to video clips of the Hallucigenia 01 at FuRo, the Future Robot Technology Research Center of the Chiba Institute of Technology:

"ZDNet Japan has some video clips of the Hallucigenia 01, the futuristic eight-wheeled car/transportation robot with wheels that can rotate independently of the others, and it can move up hills while the body of the car remains level."

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Wicked-cool home robot videos from Japan

Wicked-cool home robot videos from Japan 02/18/2004 10:53 AM
Robotics Society of America President and Robolympics founder David Calkins tells BoingBoing:

"While in Japan, I saw the coolest thing ever! Fighting robots. But not in the traditional Battlebots sense. Imagine rock-em sock-em robots, only fully articulated and computer controlled. It's called Robo-One and it's amazing. 15" tall androids belt each other boxing style until one falls down. These mini androids are as articulate as the Sony Curio, Honda ASIMO, or Fujitsu HOAP - only guys are making them in their apartments for about $3000, rather than 10 Million. I've uploaded a bunch of videos to give you an idea. Robolympics is sponsoring a Robo-One match in San Francisco in March - along with Battlebots, sumo bots, and others. Watch these videos!"

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Review: Robot Is Speechless but Agile

Review: Robot Is Speechless but Agile 06/08/2004 09:45 PM
AP via Newsday Jun 9 2004 2:29AM GMT

I, Robot movie release sparks renewed
interest in Asimov's 3 laws

I, Robot movie release sparks renewed
interest in Asimov's 3 laws 07/16/2004 11:46 AM
Tyler Emerson says:

With today's film release of the feature film "I, Robot," the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence has launced a new website, "3 Laws Unsafe", to explore the non-fictional problems presented by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. The Three Laws are widely known and are often taken seriously as reasonable solutions for guiding future AI. But are they truly reasonable?

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Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate
Stage

Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate
Stage 03/30/2005 09:13 AM

SIGGRAPH: @Last previews SketchUp 4 Film
& Stage

SIGGRAPH: @Last previews SketchUp 4 Film
& Stage 08/10/2004 12:07 PM
@Last Software is using their appearance at this week's SIGGRAPH 2004 trade show in Los Angeles, Calif. to show off SketchUp 4 Film & Stage, a new extension for their SketchUp 4 3D design software designed enable the software to work as a pre-visualization solution for art directors, filmmakers, cinematographers and others working in film and television.

New Styles of Blogs, RSS Take Center
Stage at DEMO Show

New Styles of Blogs, RSS Take Center
Stage at DEMO Show 02/16/2004 10:39 PM
"Moblogging," or new location-based blogging technology and new RSS tools kicked off the annual DEMO show on Monday.

I Robot Now

I Robot Now 12/23/2003 07:18 AM
I want one of these .. fully automated .. Yeah, right .. NS-5 robot .. iRobotNow .. assistant

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Wow Robot KHR-1

Wow Robot KHR-1 07/07/2004 08:04 AM

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/khr01.jpg" alt="khr01.jpg image" width="141" height="250" class="borderyes" border="0" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="15"/>I don't know everything about this $1,450 'KHR-1' kit from Korean firm Wow Robot, but just from watching the video I can put together that this little humanoid bot can kick (soccer-style), shuffle step, pick itself up off the floor, and assume any number of badass fighting poses. All 17 different joints are powered by a single motor, and there is even software to pre-script the movements on your computer and play them back again and again. Probably a little out of most casual robotics fans' price range, but for those that really like contributing to our species' ultimate destruction, you know, on the side, the Wow Robot is a lot of cybernetic doom for not a lot of cash. (Thanks, Soonkack!)
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"I Robot Now"

"I Robot Now" 12/23/2003 03:23 PM

Run, robot, run

Run, robot, run 12/18/2003 01:05 PM
ZDNet Dec 18 2003 12:12PM ET

I not Robot

I not Robot 07/21/2004 02:59 PM
Scott Rosenberg cites the NY Time's nailing of what's so wonderful about the original I, Robot stories, and then adds his own contemplations. Unlike Scott, though, I'm going to see the movie. I think of it as meeting someone named Abe Lincoln. Just a coincidence....

Yo, robot

Yo, robot 06/13/2004 08:59 AM

"I, Robot "

"I, Robot " 07/18/2004 09:48 PM

You, Robot

You, Robot 12/22/2004 01:24 AM
It's been a while since we mentioned Hans Moravec but a new Scientific American article turns out to be just what we needed. The article gives an update on his company, Seegrid Corporation, and the robot vision system they've been developing. Along the way he talks about the growth of raw computing power from the bacterium-level ENIAC to the modern guppy-level desktop PC.

Robot Sex

Robot Sex 05/06/2004 05:17 PM
Simson Garfinkel has written a new Technology Review article on the subject of Robot Sex - not sex as in robot procreation but as in robot gender. Is your robot a male or female? It turns out Honda thinks Asimo is a male and consistently refers to it as "he". The Roomba, on the other hand, is female according to the author. The article also mentions the Neiman Marcus his & her robots which included a male and female robot. There's a related Slashdot discussion.

What Sex is Your Robot?

What Sex is Your Robot? 05/06/2004 10:05 AM

I, Robot

I, Robot 07/17/2004 07:52 AM
IRrobotMovie.com [Release Date 2004-07-16] .. that upcoming Will Smith movie .. new film version of I, Robot .. back to fiction .. website .. movie .. Robot

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"I, Robot"

"I, Robot" 07/16/2004 08:21 AM
Will Smith has one hot bod, but is that enough to overcome this futuristic flick's edifice complex?

MARIE: Rapid Prototyping for Robotics

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