Robot Sightings – Yamaguchi's Dinosaur, PARO, Robot Cat, and more…

What's going on today in my crazy robot world?

21:10 Tim discovered a Japanese robot drawing from 1796 - tinyurl.com/6xwqfx
21:13 Japanese Post Office is selling Anime stamps, including some with famous robots tinyurl.com/6fjnqt
08:57 Danny Choo selling his Vader suit www.flickr.com/photos/dannychoo/2696503775/sizes/o/ to buy Boba Fett. Too bad it won't fit me. !8-(
09:01 The first robot slave revolts and dumps its passenger on the ground! tinyurl.com/5qyksv Let the revolution begin!
09:04 The PARO robot is still pretty amazing and cute, but the moves still need a little refinement. tinyurl.com/5nfrgp
09:09 Some students, some Lego NXT parts, and a lot of imagination - mix well tinyurl.com/5jjnsh Lots of fun, and learning
09:16 Tokyo Polytechnic's spooky running robot cat tinyurl.com/5fn55q created in 2003. Could they do a race horse now?
09:23 Kanazawa University's pingpong playing robot tinyurl.com/5h25sm created 15 years ago running on NEC PC9800s.
09:30 Before Yamaguchi-san built ROBO-ONE humanoids he cut his teeth on robot dinosaurs tinyurl.com/6ev4ea That was 1999
11:35 Great robot video (tinyurl.com/5chyrh) from the 15th Kawasaki Robot Festival www.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/robo/
19:44 Robot parking for bicycles: tinyurl.com/5jqghs I'm sure my super-size frame Trek would jam up the works. !8-D