Posted May 16th 2008 6:06AM

The Oxford Mobile Robotics Group uses two modified iRobot all-terrain robotic vehicles running on MOOS software for their research. The robots are called Homer & Marge [after The Simpsons].





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Posted May 15th 2008 5:44AM

Disney plans lifesized Wall-E [ 1 ] robots in the disney parks before the release of the movie [27 June 2008].

Via Botjunkie.

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Posted May 15th 2008 5:21AM

Pixie, a Pleo robot, visited Sea World. If dolphins had credit cards...

Read more.

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Posted May 15th 2008 5:08AM

As announced by Honda, on 13 May, ASIMO conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as it performed "The Impossible Dream" to open a special sold-out concert featuring cellist Yo-yo Ma for the newly established Power of Dreams Music Education Fund for Detroit youth.

Note that ASIMO is not in full autonomous mode, it's remotely controlled.

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Posted May 15th 2008 3:18AM

A robot water strider relies on surface tension to walk on top of water.

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Posted May 15th 2008 2:37AM

MLB Company's V-Bat is a VTOL UAV.

It weighs 32 kg and has a custom flight control system.

More V-Bat videos can be found here. MLB Company is an AUVSI member.

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Posted May 13th 2008 8:58AM

Paul Granjon's sexed robots [2005] are autonomous wheeled platforms fitted with nylon genital organs, respectively male and female.

They are programmed to explore their environment, occasionally entering a "in heat" mode, where they will try and locate a partner in the same state. If a partner is located, the robots will attempt to mate.

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Posted May 13th 2008 8:00AM

Leslie Spring is the inventor and architect of Cognitive Code's SILVIA platform [Symbolically Isolated Linguistically Variable Intelligence Algorithms].

SILVIA explained


SILVIA demo


The above videos are the highlights of this presentation.

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Posted May 11th 2008 6:21AM

Swift's Rooftop Wind Energy System is a wind turbine system for personal use and comes to rooftops in July 2008. This design uses an outer ring to diffuse air flow from five blades, minimises noise to 35 decibels [less noise than generated by whisper conversation], and can generate up to 2000 kwh annually.

Read more.

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Posted May 11th 2008 5:03AM

If you're an online poker player, you've probably heard rumors about the rise of the Poker Bots [ 1 from Poker A.I.]. There's very little hard information out there [for obvious reasons] about how to build one of these bots. In fact, many so-called authorities still dismiss poker bots as a relic of the overactive poker player's imagination.

In an interesting article James Devlin shows that poker bots really exist [he programmed one] and in a series of articles he'll explain how.

Continue reading.

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