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Robot Sightings: KungFu Cyborgs, Combat Robots Greatest Hits, All-Terrain VEX Legs, and more...

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

06:29 Video of Basil the robot delivering tea (tinyurl.com/basil-robot-delivers) and explaining some of his operation/design.
06:33 Anthony Fudd designed a Lego robot that pours drinks (tinyurl.com/fudd-tipsy-robot). Wonder if it does eggnog for the holidays...
09:22 It's really encouraging to see robots put to practical use in real applications like hazardous environments (tinyurl.com/robot-boat)
09:35 Velodyne created a unique LIDAR design used by 5 of the 6 finishers in the DARPA Urban Challenge (tinyurl.com/robot-HD-LIDAR)
11:07 Ollie (tinyurl.com/ollietech-robots) pointed us to some fantastic all-terrain legs for Vex robots (tinyurl.com/vex-robot-legs)
11:10 Here's video of the Vex all-terrain legs in action (tinyurl.com/vex-robot-legs-video). What can we say? We want!!! We want!!!
11:23 Team Velocity posted the most awesome combat robot 'Greatest Hits' video we've ever seen (tinyurl.com/combat-robots-greatest-hits)
11:31 Team Kiss puts their robot building skills to good use by warming up the holiday season (tinyurl.com/warming-the-holidays)
12:01 Forget kungfu pandas, what the movie going public really needs is kungfu robots (tinyurl.com/kungfu-cyborg-attraction)
12:50 The Indian ROBOTIX event is just a month away. (www.robotix.in) In 2008 it drew 2500 participants, 1200 teams, with 11 from overseas.

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