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Create your own comedy robots

September 5, 2008, 4:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: craft, DIY, Robots, Spykee

Now that you’ve built all the freebie cardboard robots from Firebox and find yourself with plenty of adhesive left over may we suggest these DIY automatons, in just a few hours you’ll have a family of star-jumping machines to adorn your wall.

Spykee siblings arriving soon

September 5, 2008, 1:36 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: Bluetooth, Cell, Meccano, Robots, Spykee, vox

We’re almost ready to unbox our new arrival later this month, Spykee WiFi is one of the hottest robot launches of the year, and the makers Mecanno want you to fall in love with the entire family too.

Robotic Spider creation terrorises Scousers

September 4, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: arachnid, culture, liverpool, Robots, scouser, spider

Well they’ll certainly have had a fair shock as they wandered by Liverpools Concourse building this morning catching sight of this three storey, 37 ton creepy crawly.

Transformers Optimus Prime - The one off the telly

September 3, 2008, 4:00 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots, Toys Tags: animated, hasbro, optimus prime, Robots, series, trasnformers, TV

Whilst we get ourselves hot and bothered at any new spoiler we manage to unearth from the Transformer film sequel an animated TV series has been doing rather well and is launching its own merchandise.

Robotic choppers fly better than humans

September 3, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: choppers, helicopters, robotics, Robots, Software, stanford

Its another bunch of super-brains from Stanford University, this bunch of clever-clogs have created a software program that enables robotic helicopters to learn tricks from a human pilot, and then do them much more efficiently.

Forestry robot is a mean machine

September 2, 2008, 4:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: discovery, forestry, logging, Robots, scorpion, transformers

Our interest in all things logging related has increased to unhealthy levels of late after becoming addicted to Ax Men, the Discovery channel show which follows the lives of chainsaw weilding blokes in the backwoods of Oregon, we’ve found something to make their lives a little easier.

Robot paints Mona Lisa in record time

September 1, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Prototypes, Software Tags: chips, mona lisa, NVIDIA, paint, paintball, Robots, Software

At NVIDIA’s recent NVision08 gathering they employed a couple of those chaps from the Discovery channel who present the Mythbusters to show off the power of its new gaming chipset.