This month
Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation : NPR
ALAN-BOT: So you are a robot. SHRUTI-BOT: No, my name is Cleverbot. ALAN-BOT: Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot. SHRUTI-BOT: I am a robot. ALAN-BOT: Yes, I know. SHRUTI-BOT: Together, we are robots.
Please welcome ArduPilotMega 2.0! - DIY Drones
The same hardware can autonomously control planes, multicopters, regular helicopters, rovers, even boats, with just a one-click firmware change--no programming required! Best-of-breed mission planning and two-way telemetry, and soon with advanced scripting with Python for robot acrobatics and more.
Geminoid-F Android Waits for a Friend in a Tokyo Department Store #DigInfo - YouTube
creepyGeminoid-F Android Waits for a Friend in a Tokyo Department Store #DigInfo
November 2011
Address Is Approximate on Vimeo
Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins.
October 2011
August 2011
Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog - IEEE Spectrum
An anonymous worker at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has written dozens of blog posts describing the ups and downs of his experience as one of the lead robot operators at the crippled facility.
Swarmanoid project
design, implementation and control of a novel distributed robotic system. The system will be made up of heterogeneous, dynamically connected, small autonomous robots. Collectively, these robots will form what we call a swarmanoid.
Karakuri on Vimeo
Japan has always been on the forefront of cutting edge robotics. Its roots can be traced back 200-300 years during the Edo period when skilled craftsmen created automata (self-operating machines). Using nothing more than pulleys and weights they were able to make the Karakuri (Japanese automata) perform amazing tasks.
BBC News - Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant
Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant. Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient. Crucially, the technique does not need a donor, and there is no risk of the organ being rejected. The surgeons stress a windpipe can also be made within days.
WowWee™ :: Mini Robopanda™
Robopanda™, the fun-loving and curious robotic friend, is now available as a 7.5" tall, battery operated Mini Robopanda.
July 2011
Robot Fetishism, Synthetic Partners, and Phallogocentrism » Cyborgology
l'article ne va pas assez loin. Le robot transforme la personne également dans un rôle simple et donc programmatique, et donc nous transformant en robot.I personally think robot fetishism may stem from a desire for control and passivity in one’s partners.
culturalbytes - Tricia Wang, Thoughts on Kevin Slavin’s Talk on how Algorithms...
mwaahhaaWhat sets human beings apart from robots and animals is that we engage is symbolic behavior and thinking.
April 2011
March 2011
August 2010
Roll Your Own Human Powered Botnet with Pawnfarm : Web Ecology Project
number of Twitter accounts under zombie control of the artificial artificial intelligence engine of Amazon Mechanical Turk.Effectively, this creates a human-powered botnet completely under the command of the user of Pawnfarm.allow the behavior of these bots to get proactive, having them follow/unfollow under certain conditions, reply to certain parts of a social network, etc, etc. Truly exciting times.
July 2010
Building a face-tracking robot (Headroid1) with Python in an afternoon | The Artificial Intelligence Cookbook
a face tracking 2-axis robot head controlled by Python and open source modules.
June 2010
Programmable | Aldebaran Robotics
Choregraphe accepts Urbi and Python language, so it can directly call C++ modules developed separately. It comes with many detailed examples to simplify the learning process.
Choregraphe is multi-platform and can easily be integrated into your development environment; it is compatible with Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Interactive | Aldebaran Robotics
When two Nao meet……they can talk to each other and work together. You can choose to connect them directly in Wi-Fi, infrared or even body language.










