Wall-e! A robot movie from Pixar

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Sunday, September 30th, 2007

SWEET! Pixar is making a movie about a robot, named Wall-e! The trailer is supposed to hit the internet on Tuesday. I can’t wait!

I think there is going to be a real model of this robot… or something like that, check it out

Woohooo!!

Link.

Posted in: Animation News, News, Robot News.

Steve Wozniak on Robotics and AI

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

A (very) short eWeek article offers some insight into what Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks about the future of robotics and AI. He hopes that the future holds robots that follow the lead of personal computers by becoming general-purpose, programmable devices instead of become function-specific devices. He also makes some tech predictions of a more common variety – terabyte-sized RAM chips that eliminate the need for hard disks and more advanced display devices. In particular he’d like to see a desktop globe that displays Google Map data.

I agree! A Google map globe would be quite awesome! Woohoo!

Link.

Posted in: News, Other News, Robot News, Tech News.

A wiibot!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

This is awesomeness…

Link.

Posted in: News, Robot News.

Spider-bot

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Check out this freaky, yet interesting, spider bot!

I think it’s really good, well, it looks like a spider! The mechanics are nice… the design is nice… it’s a nice spider-bot!

Link.

Posted in: News, Robot News.

OOOOPIC.

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, September 24th, 2007

Hmm, found this microcontroller, called an OOPIC. I like the name!

But I think I’m gonna go with an Arduino, the bluetooth one.

Arrrrrr-duino! hahaha

Link.

Posted in: News, Programming, Projects, Robot, Tech News.

King Kizer hits a home run at Robo-One

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Gee, this is pretty cool!!

Link.

Posted in: News, Robot News.

Robot For Lunar Prospecting Under Development

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Called “Scarab,” this four-wheeled robot will never leave the Earth. But it will demonstrate technologies that a lunar rover will need to find concentrations of hydrogen, possibly water and other volatile chemicals on the moon that could be mined to produce fuel, water and air that are essential for supporting lunar outposts.

Hmm, to me it doesn’t look big enough. But, it’s not going to the moon, so…

Link.

Posted in: News, Robot News.