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Fast Robot Prototyping

 [Command-Tab] Fast Robot Prototyping October 11th, 2005 11:36 pm IBM has an cool article detailing some techniques you can use to quickly build robots with common...

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Flame-thrower Robosapien

 [ www.hacklog.com] Someone seems to have replaced some of the hand electronics in a Robosapien robot and added a flame thrower, since that's exactly what it was missing. [via] Link.

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Posted at 01:54 PM

October 17, 2005

Fast Robot Prototyping

 [Command-Tab] Fast Robot Prototyping October 11th, 2005 11:36 pm IBM has an cool article detailing some techniques you can use to quickly build robots with common...

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Posted at 01:58 PM

Flame-thrower Robosapien

 [ www.hacklog.com] Someone seems to have replaced some of the hand electronics in a Robosapien robot and added a flame thrower, since that's exactly what it was missing. [via] Link.

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Posted at 01:54 PM

Borges: a whale of an error

 [Will.Whim] Your English version of Borges’ celebrated essay http://www.entish.org/essays/Wilkins.html contains a rather spectacular mistranslation based presumably on a typo in the original Spanish.

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Posted at 01:53 PM

October 14, 2005

Robotic fish in London Aquarium

[XyroX - Digital Lifestyle Magazine] The London Aquarium has a special new attraction: A Cyber Fish, inspired by a common carp, which is able to avoid objects and swim around a specially designed tank. The fish is sized at 50cm long, 15cm high and 12cm wide and is able to swim at a speed of 50 cm per second.

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Posted at 12:06 PM

Linux Wins the Grand Challenge

 [ www.hacklog.com] A LinuxDevices article notes that most of the teams that qualified in the Grand Challenge were running Linux-based systems including the two CMU robots. The Stanford Stanley robot was rumoured to be running Linux but the team has not released enough technical details about their robot to confirm the rumour.

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Posted at 12:05 PM

Ecology and Emotion

[After Gutenberg] German model posed on Chinese EV A Toyota news release about an active steering mechanism that “seamlessly controls vehicle movement from before the point at which the vehicle becomes unstable” illustrates some of the features to be emphasized by concept vehicles at the 39th Tokyo Motor Show. Note: The press release informs, “This year, the Toyota exhibit retains the same theme as last year”””Ecology & Emotion”””featuring its initiatives for creating vehicles that pursue both environmental consideration and the essential emotional appeal of a car”¦” We may be at a particular juncture for personal transportation, to which I have alluded previously.

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Posted at 12:01 PM

Machine evolution and consciousness (circa 1872)

 [Will.Whim] he has already succeeded in effecting much that at one time appeared impossible, and there seem no limits to the results of accumulated improvements if they are allowed to descend with modification from generation to generation. It must always be remembered that man’s body is what it is through having been moulded into its present shape by the chances and changes of many millions of years, but that his organisation never advanced with anything like the rapidity with which that of the machines is advancing.

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Posted at 11:59 AM

October 11, 2005

SUBDUE

[After Gutenberg] Distinguished Chair Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University With a learning algorithm helping to secure Stanley first place in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, my scanning now picks up references to learning machines such as the story from the Shorthorn. DARPA has funded a data mining project at the University of Texas - Arlington.

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Posted at 11:03 PM

Papers by Googlers

[Gagan Kaul Blog] Found this interesting link that provides papers written by Google employees. The site is Google Papers, and has papers on a lot of IT topics including artificial intelligence, profiling, data compression et al.

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Posted at 11:02 PM

Robot Race Has a Winner This Year!

 [Phantasmablogia - Music and Video Blog by Alan Fraser] Last year, none of the robots even finished the race. Officials aren't positive Stanley won as each of the robots started out at staggered intervals so the clocks have to be checked to positively declare a winner.

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Posted at 11:01 PM

Lemonodor: Stanford Wins Grand Challenge

 [Will.Whim] Lemonodor: Stanford Wins Grand Challenge Great pix from John and Lori — follow the Flickr links.

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Posted at 10:59 PM

October 09, 2005

Cool Robotics Links From IBM

[brainwagon] This Make post links to a cool IBM developerworks article on quick prototyping of robots. Many cool nuggest, including the use of cardboard to...

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Posted at 07:43 PM

“Just dump the barrels in the forest”¦”

 [Scuffletown] don't worry, nothing's gonna happen." (Created by these folks who have more cool stuff at their site.)

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Posted at 07:12 PM

Exoskeletons in IEEE Spectrum

 [ www.hacklog.com] Rob the Bold writes "October IEEE Spectrum magazine (print and online) reports on worldwide developments in exoskeleton technology. Applications include mobility for the disabled, increased lifting power for cargo loaders and nurses, and faster running capability.

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Posted at 07:11 PM

Prefered by Bots Everywhere

[After Gutenberg] The media has latched on to the fact that a Volkswagen Touareg beat out two Hummers, a Ford Escape Hybrid and a monster truck at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. While it was the artificial intelligence developed by the Stanford team that excelled, it is ironic that the winner is a favorite vehicle among the Birkenstock-clad, treehugging, granola-eating, soccer mom set.

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Posted at 07:08 PM

October 06, 2005

Gracious Professionalism, A FIRST Credo

[the mad cow] Obviously it would not make sense to endorse “asinine professionalism” or “gracious incompetence.” It is, however, completely consistent with the FIRST spirit to encourage doing high quality well informed work in a manner that leaves everyone feeling valued. Gracious professionalism seems to be a good descriptor for part of the ethos of FIRST.

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Posted at 09:25 AM

RoboNexus Home Page

 [All this chittah-chattah] I just got a flyer for an upcoming event in San Jose called RoboNexus - "North America's Largest Business and Consumer Robotics Expo!"

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Posted at 09:24 AM