Sit wherever, whenever!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Neat, check this out:

I wonder how they react though, when they crash into something or get stuck? And they don’t really seem comfy, but that’s probably intentional, as it is only temporary sitting (we hope)! Worthy of a blog, anyway.

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Tags: robot, chair, moves

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Bristlebot

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Thursday, December 27th, 2007

LOL, This is so cute. Somehow, I can see something bizarre happening with these on April Fools Day!

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Tags: robot, bristlebot

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Japan’s Robot of the Year

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Thursday, December 27th, 2007

 

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) 2007 Robot of tthe work-horse, industrial robot from Fanuc Ltd. called M-430iA. The multi-axis, greaseless (read: sanitary) robot is part of a food and pharmaceutical handling system. Unlike your unemployed uncle with his GED, this bot can work non-stop, 24 hours a day, accurately picking up 120 items per minute as they roll down a conveyor belt.

That’s cool, they have an annual ROBOT AWARD! I would get a kick out of it if it was named Yeti though. All jokes aside, a greaseless food handling system sounds great. Yet, with these robots comes unemployment issues. As the article mentions, "Unlike your unemployed uncle with his GED, this bot can work non-stop, 24 hours a day, accurately picking up 120 items per minute as they roll down a conveyor belt." that is great, but there should be a limit. Unemployment sucks, and many small towns depend on their local manufacturing plants to keep a steady payroll. I’m all for innovation, within limits.

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Even Robots like Rubiks Cubes!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Thursday, December 27th, 2007

For those that don’t understand how to solve Rubiks cubes, now there is a robot to help you out!

The robot "Cube kun", manufactured by Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries can solve a Rubik’s Cube in less than three minutes on an average.

I remember at MIT Splash there was a class on how to solve Rubiks cubes, and they gave everyone that attended a sheet with simple steps on how to solve it, then they were Rubiks solving champs! I suppose the robot has those steps as algorithms imbedded in its program. Sweet! It would be neat to build one of these over the summer with an Arduino

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