i-SOBOT Plays William Tell (Video)
Our friend Paxshikai is an i-SOBOT wizard without peer, and keeps coming up with new, surprising, and totally inventive, tricks and hacks for his favorite robot.
This time, bring back memories of William Tell and his son, Paxshiai has equipped his i-SOBOT with a crossbow and has it popping balloons off the head of a brave volunteer.
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RoboGames 2008: The Best Action is Outside The Ring (Video)
At events like RoboGames, the best action is often where you least expect it. RoboGames 2008 was no exception. There were lots of practice and 'pick-up' games that took place way from the main rings. When that happens, the players don't feel all the competitive pressure and stress, so they quickly get down to what's really important - having fun with robots.
A great example was the impromptu competition in the pit area between a Japanese robot dog (the HPI G-Dog piloted by Jin Sato) and what can be best described as a giant robot bug (the Swashbot piloted by I-Wei from Crabfu).
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Robonova-1 Figures
Tsukumo Robot Kingdom here is putting the Robonova-1 (both kit and RTW versions) on sale during July - reducing the price by about $100. It's almost enough for us to seriously consider adding one to our growing collection of humanoid robots.
It's even more interesting to speculate on why they are cutting the price. Is it too much of a stretch to guess that a RN-2 is waiting in the wings? Frankly, we doubt it, but who knows? Certainly not us.
The Tsukumo blog also estimates that there have been 300 million RN-1 sold, which has to be a major slip of the decimal point. Our guess would be closer to 30,000 world-wide including the RoboZak kits that are just repackaged Robonovas.
RoboGames 2008: Day Three Photos
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Originally uploaded by Tempusmaster.
One week, and over 5,000 miles later, we finally posted the last photos - RoboGames 2008 Day Three, and have started to work our way through all the video footage we shot.
What a rollercoaster thrill ride it was. Orders of magnitude better than any thing at Disneyland or Great America. Every robot competition at RoboGames turned out to be an "E-ticket ride".
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