Roomba Pac-Man
via youtube.com
I have to admit I have a thing for robots. So when I saw this, it was love. There are so many ways that people have tried to hack Roomba's (robot vacum machines) but this is probably one of my favourites...
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iPhone Software Designed To Specifically Control Adroids
"Adding a new wrinkle to the 'droid versus iPhone debate, a project at Keio University in Tokyo have created iPhone software specifically designed to control androids. More specifically, they've created an interface that puts control of a humanoid robot right at your fingertips.
"Walky" takes advantage of an iPhone or iPod's touchscreen to create an intuitive interface that requires virtually no learning. Your fingers simulate the robot's legs: a walking motion using the index and middle fingers makes the robot walk, tapping the screen makes it jump up and down, and a flicking motion with one finger elicits a kicking motion."
[via PopSci, more here: http://tr.im/Fgvr ]
The BlackBerry Robot Challenge
These little robots are controlled using a Storm 2. They can scan for colours and can shoot little balls with a fair bit of power. Really cool stuff!
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進化するロボット達 - たこ焼きロボット お好み焼きロボット
お好み焼きロボット
また、歌も歌うそうです。
たこ焼きロボ
http://www.toyoriki.co.jp/takoyaki/ 本当にロボットも進化しているなー。
たこ焼きロボとお好み焼きロボットで日本の技術の素晴らしさを感じた。w(^-^)w
画像の説明
写真１ たこ焼きロボットとして使用した安川電機の６軸多関節ロボット写真２ 市販の竹串を使用。奥に写っているのは、タネの注入口。
写真３ ハケには、ロボットが把持できるよう専用の取っ手を付けている。
写真４ たこは専用治具に固定して、取り出しやすくしている。
写真５ はじめに1/2の量のタネを注入する。焼きムラを考慮して中央部の穴のみにタネを注入する。
写真６ たこを把持し、12個の穴に投入する。
写真７ 穴のエッジをなぞるように竹串を回しながらタネを傾ける。２回目の回転でタネが傾く。
写真８ 傾いてできたスペースに1/4の量のタネを注入する。
写真９ 穴のエッジから中央に向けて竹串を回転させて、さらにタネを傾ける。
写真10 再度1/4の量のタネを注入した後、タネをひっくり返す。
写真11 容器に取り出して、ハケでソースを付ける。
写真12 最後に、青のりをさっと振りかければ完成。
写真13 東洋理機工業などが受託開発を手がける「イージーオーダーロボット」。お客を勧誘したり“言い訳”をしたりするなど、たこ焼きロボットと一緒になって働く。
Robot...
Awesome tinyCylon accessory
Andrew Alter of Trossen Robotics has added a very impressive accessory to his tinyCylon kit. I think you will be impressed as well.
Excellent work, Andrew!
I, ROBOT becoming real by Boston Dynamics
Watch this video clip by Boston Dynamics.
See my other post related to robot technology. Maybe the future is not far.
Pike Loop
Tomorrow starts the construction of the architectural installion “Pike Loop” at the Storefront of Art and Architecture (New York), together with the opening of the exhibition of the work of Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler on Architecture and Digital Fabrication. Gramazio & Kohler shipped R-O-B, their Mobile Fabrication Unit robot, to New York to build Pike Loop, a 22m long structure built from bricks.
I would really like to see these kind of fabrication techniques to be used more often, they definitely offer new possibilities to architecture and design.
This is a photo of another design called “Structural Oscillations”, it should give you an idea how Pike Loop could look like when it’s finished.
