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New Developments. [05 Mar 2008|12:37pm] dryponder Lynxmotion R/C Spider Uses PS2 Controller OSP Robot Is Human Sized Roomba For Oil Spills iBird R/C Toy Looks Like Flapping Good Fun iCub Baby Robot to Undergo Developmental Training, Still Isn't a Real Kid Military Turing test to make autonomous war robots legal? Army orders 24 new sentry-bots, Judgment Day moved up two months The Awkward Japanese Robot That Can Jump Up From Flat on Its Back REEM B Humanoid Service Robot May Give ASIMO A Run (Ok, Stroll) For Its Money Autonomous Robots: Ethical Combatants or Suicide Bombers? Homegrown security bot heckles vagrants, longs to be a real cop Other Future-y Stuff This Week: British Navy Working on Developing Invisible Ships Using Metamaterials DARPA Close To Awarding Contract For Spy Plane That Stays Aloft For 5 Years 2 comments|post comment

'Robots Will Win' Special Report: Warbots [03 Aug 2007|02:22am] dryponder Click here for the WIRED story. The U.S. Military has been using robots in the current war with Iraq since the initial invasion, but until now, there have been no fully-armed warbots. Last week, I linked a story on the first drone fighter squadron deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are controlled by operators (safe-as-houses operators sipping coffee in Nevada, mind you). Today's news shows that this is the start of a horrifically inevitable trend in the way war is waged on Earth. Human lives will now be taken by robots in the course of human war. Starting...now. Related: 'UK Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge' Warbots Contest Pentagon to Implant Microchips in Soldiers' Brains 1 comment|post comment

How long until these things are so good you cut your own hand off for one? [24 Jul 2007|03:23am] dryponder Really Slick iLimb Robotic Hand Awesome Steampunk Robot Art First Prosthetic Dog Paw Surgery a Success T-35 Giant Terrifying Rescue Robot U.S. Deploys First Aerial Drone MQ-9 'Reaper' Squadron Video Here Life-Size Flying Robotic Fly Video of Lockheed's RC MULE Armored Vehicle Short Circuit's Johnny 5 (UPDATE: was) on eBay?! NASA Tests Future Moon-Landing Bots in Canada Scary Nanogenerator Makes Energy From Your Circulating Blood Other Future-y Stuff This Week: Nifty Computer Security Ring MIT Scientists 'Cure' Fear in Mice Cybernetic Botanicals? Get Electronic Water Requests from Your Plants DARPA Developing 'Crystal Ball' Battle Prediction Moller Hovercar in Production! 3 comments|post comment

Engineer Gets Jollies Kicking Robot Dog. [17 Jul 2007|07:03am] dryponder DARPA-Funded "Big Dog" Quadrupedal Packbot Project Robotic Spacecraft "Phoenix" Headed for Mars RobuDog, Windows XP Puppybot Yaskawa's Package-Sorting Mailbots Bionic Legs Allow Miracle Crash Survivor to Walk Again Runbot, a Dynamically-Learning Walking Robot Update: Now With Climbing Ability! ESA's 3-Armed Spacebot Passes Weightlessness Testing iBotics Stingray Robosub Mitsubishi Hiring Out Robot Receptionists Decepticon Soundwave MP3 Player Upgrade! NASA Working on Biological Nano-Battery Life-Size Robot Elvis Head Thanks You...Very Much Other Future-y Stuff This Week: The Magic Wheel Taser's Shockwave Six Shooter Air-Filtering Bike Helmet MIT's Revolutionary (and Stylin') BioSuit 1 comment|post comment

Flight of the Conchords Know the Score [11 Jul 2007|04:27am] dryponder MIOpup, Sega's Robot Dog Build Your Own Beetle Robot Solar Powered Pool Cleaning Robot Early Animatronics Off-Shore Sea Sentinels to Improve Port Security Autonomous Weed Trimmer Aldebaran's Nao Robot Honda's Humanoid Robot Workers ISELLA Robotic Arm WowWee's Roboquad Reviewed Australian Police Worried About Robot/Cyborg Crime Solid Midfield Goal Scored at RoboCup 2007 World's First Programmable Robot, Circa 60 AD Parasailing Robot Lightweight Leaping Bots for Planetary Exploration BJ, the New Robot Mutt on the Block RoboCup Footage Round-Up! Other future-y stuff this week: The U.S. Navy Wants Boatcars Unbelievable Wireless Tazer Projectile Self-Balancing Wheelchair Advanced Lightweight Armor Suit 4 comments|post comment

The Congressional Caucus on Robots: Likely Collaborators in the Eventual Robot Takeover. [04 Jul 2007|07:21pm] dryponder Taser/iRobot to Produce Weapons-Capable Robots Congressional Caucus on Robots Vortex's Wall-Climbing Robot Fruit-Picking Robots to Replace Migrant Workers NASA Releases Robot Software to the Public Arctic Robots to Search for Life on Earth Robotic Venus Fly Trap Eats Live Flies Robotarium X - Artificial Life Zoo Another New Robotic Hand New Miniature Touch Sensor R2D2 DVD Player/Projector RoboCup 2007 Gets Underway! Other Future-y News: DARPA Funds Invisible Shield Technology Two New Jet Pack Models on Sale Artificial Skin Merges with the Real Deal Slick Video-Conferencing Watch Communicator post comment

Pretty Robot News Week! [27 Jun 2007|03:03pm] dryponder 1. NASA's "Scarecrow" Mars Rover. 2. Kawada Waterproof Workbot. 3. Nike's Robotic Hand. 4. Blubber Bots: Autonomous Robot Blimps. 5. Microbot Vein Crawler. 3 comments|post comment

Robot Fingers w/ Honey Mustard or BBQ Sauce [19 Jun 2007|02:37pm] dryponder Take-G's Robot Wooden Toys Man Defeats Robot Using Gun & Axe Robotic Replacement Fingers Homemade Transformer Costumes that Transform Kansei, Robot with Reactive Facial Expressions Robot Reptile Collects Data Robot Art in Museum Show More RoboGames News RoboPanda! Robot Master of Wedding Ceremonies Robot Power Legs Awesome Indoor R/C Plane 1 comment|post comment

RoboGames and RoboManslaughter [06 Jun 2007|03:23am] dryponder RoboGames 2007 June 15-17 Robot Lawnmower Kills Man European Robots Assist* Children in Forming Relationships Living Memory Chip New Manoi Model PF-01 Rescue Bot w/ Changeable Track Formation Korean School Security Robot Creepy Child Bot Hasbro's Real-life Gadget Transformers Reddy the Emotional Robot "The Robot That Sweats" Art Installation * Hinder 2 comments|post comment

More Terrifying (but Awesome) Developments. [30 May 2007|02:36am] dryponder DUALIS Ad Campaign Tiny Solar Robots Termite Killer Bot Open Source Unmanned Copter Rugged Recon Scout Homebot with Facial Recognition Dean Kamen's Robot Arm (Awesome) Pilotless Police Drone Wowwee Robot Guard 2 comments|post comment

Robots_Will_Update [03 May 2007|04:34pm] dryponder Team Osaka's RoboCup Entrants Walking Spider Car Video SPARKy Prosthesis Robot Art from Stephane Halleux Whale-Tracking Autonomous Sub-Bots DARPA Prosthetics Challenge Candidate UK Scientists Building Robot Village 2 comments|post comment

Cute little fuel cell powered UAV. [19 Apr 2007|01:50pm] dryponder Check out the story and video clip over here. post comment

RC Steam Beetle! [26 Mar 2007|12:22pm] dryponder Pics & Video here. 3 comments|post comment

This is Real. [14 Sep 2006|01:47pm] dryponder I know it's been quite a while, but I just couldn't pass this one up. You guys. Wow. Edit: And here's a bonus one-legged hopbot. 6 comments|post comment

Transformers rule. [17 Jan 2006|09:29pm] dryponder Transformer Vid up on Apollo Pony Robots on the Streets New Reasoning Robot Creepy New Roachborg Cool Plantbot Next Gen Robosapiens Hacks/Mods for Your Furby Hair-Sized Robot Creating Synthetic Life Dinosaur Comics on Robots 6 comments|post comment

Man, there is SO MUCH robot news this month! [05 Dec 2005|07:10pm] dryponder Robot-One Update! Edumacational Robo-legs Square Wheels Win! Erector Speed Play (Man, that is one to many double entendres.) Robot Breakdancing! More on Cyber-Hand Robo-Walker Grocery-bots Intelligent Microbots New Robotic Knee post comment

One day they will replace us, and we won't even notice. [03 Dec 2005|05:43am] dryponder TOP STORY: Android Advancements Continue According to Dictionary.com, Robot = "A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance," and Android: "An automaton that is created from biological materials and resembles a human. Also called humanoid." I'm gonna dispute the 'biological materials' part of the android def, but otherwise, I think the point is that like the relationship between squares and rectangles, all androids are robots, but not all robots are andriods. Personally, I prefer only slightly humanoid robots. Cute ones, tough ones, even boring ones, but these rubber-faced bots with mechanical facial features just creep me out. Several More Pics of the Creepy Android Girl Kimonobots? New Bionic Hand, Pretty Slick Transformable Robot Costumes! HAL-5 Suit Upgraded Bandai Swiffer Robot Make Your Own PVC ROV Sub! U.S. Border Drones HOAP-3 Hits Stuff! Korea's Smart Arm Wrestling Robot Two-Armed Assembly Robot Robo-Bar Blinkybugs! Voice-Activated R2-D2 SORA Reception Robot Bluetooth-enabled Robot 5 comments|post comment

[23 Nov 2005|06:58pm] dryponder Top Story: President Meets Future Robotic Overlord I don't have much to say about the Albert Hubo robot, except that I'm a little creeped out by the decision to use a human-like head, let alone with an beloved, historical figure's facial features. However, communicable emotions might be a useful trait for robots to have for human-robot task cooperations. Still creepy. Personally, I'd go with some tv-screenish, heads with interchangeable display faces represented in 3-D. I like my robots a bit more...robotic. Anyway, check it out: Albert Hubo: Creepy Souless Einstein Solar Underwater Robot Robot Glacier Project Sensitive Robot Barkeep Bacteria-based Camera Robot Eyes Aid in Medical Training More Robot Crafts Don't forget about our new open robot images community, RoboFamilyAlbum! 2 comments|post comment

Beck's new dancers are HOT, until their fans kick in. [16 Nov 2005|05:49am] dryponder Top Story: Beck Video Features QRIO Robots Beck's new video is now available on his website. It requires registration to view, but it's pretty simple. Anyway, the video either has Sony's QRIO robots in the place of backup dancers, or Beck in the place of a QRIO spokesperson. I can't tell. It's neat that the video is utilizing actual robot capabilities, but it doesn't make for very engaging entertainment, as the entire thing looks like a Sony product presentation (which we're all familiar with around here). Anyway, check it out. [Link] Tyco Cyberbeast: Named Too Scary for X-Mas Cubic Robotic Blimps How to Make a Robot RC Car Robot Quilts Army Developing Synthetic Gills Robotic Lawyers Remote Controlled Spy Turtles 2005 Eastern Canadian Robot Games 7' Robby the Robot! Thanks for all the kind comments on the last post. Robots_Will_Win will stay pretty much the same, but with a bit more talking from me. However, I've decided to start a new community for posting images of robots and YOU'RE ALL INVITED! The new community is called RoboFamilyAlbum, a name suggested by my pal heroprotagonist. In general, I'm thinking that Robo Family Album's fun/art images can be the balance to this site's "news only" images. Check it out! 6 comments|post comment

BRAIN CELLS IN A ROBOT? [10 Nov 2005|04:25am] dryponder It's like every scary sci-fi idea comes true, you guys. I can't tell if they're using the term 'brain cells' loosely here, or if they mean biological cells, like it sounds. Of course, we remember the rat brain cells taught to fly Microsoft Flight Simulator a while back. Anyway, here's the robot with (supposedly) 20,000 brain cells: Robot has 20,000 Brain Cells Robot Plays Harp (Well that's considerably less terrifying, eh?) Robot Rings the NASDAQ Opening Bell Vintage Robot Auction More on Our Favorite Robot, Manoi! Amoeba-like Robot Spotted in Virginia Researchers Improving Robot Muscles I'm thinking about actually opening this thing up and letting it be a real community. I suppose quality-control would drop a bit, but perhaps updates would be more frequent and you guys could be more involved. Thoughts? 19 comments|post comment

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