"Hobbyists started the PC era, hobbyists with dial-up modems created BBS systems and started the internet era, and now robot hobbyists are creating the robotics era."
-Sinclair Donald
Senior Robotics Engineer
Two ROBO-ONE Champions duke it out for the crowds in Hong Kong last weekend.
Continue reading "King Kizer & Dynamizer Battle in Hong Kong (Video)" »
King Kizer wasn’t the only ROBO-ONE champion to visit Hong Kong last weekend. Mega Dynamizer also showed off his stuff, and to give the audience even more appeal, Sugiura’s humongous robot learned Chinese just for the occasion.
Continue reading "Humanoid Appeal is Global Lead by Dynamizer (Video)" »
Alert readers probably noticed that we’ve started to post our popular robot videos again. Our old PC had some major problems and had to be sent to an early grave. It took a while to get the new desktop system setup the way we wanted, but now it literally zooms and makes creating videos a pleasure instead of a drag. So much so that in one afternoon we cranked out 11 short videos that we’ll be sharing with you soon.
First, here’s some fun footage we took during the first day setup at the April Wonderful Robot Carnival event.
One of the things we really enjoy about the internet, and more specifically about social/sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, and Facebook, is the never ending stream of ideas and inspiration.
For example, we’re a huge fan of robot sumo but hadn’t seen robot sumo played with modified Roomba robots in formal competitions ? at least not until this morning when we were pointed to the Tallinn 2009 Spring Cup robot sumo competition video below.
Now our mind is literally racing with the possibilities. What other neat things can be done with the Roomba platform? Is anyone doing Orange County Choppers hacks on the Roomba? Why doesn’t RoboGames have a Roomba Sumo category?
Continue reading "Roomba Sumo Rocks in the Baltics (Video)" »
Talk about a ‘dream come true’, the premiere humanoid robot competition in West Japan, RoboCountryIV, played host to the ultimate humanoid robot, ASIMO, during the Golden Week holidays here.
Driven by strong demand from the humanoid builder community, Kondo announced the latest addition to their industry leading KRS line of robot servos, the KRS-6003HV ICS Red Version. The new servo’s specs are impressive, but the good news from Kondo doesn’t stop there.
The 3rd Robot Pro Wrestling “Dekinnoka!” competition has been scheduled for May 5th at the Kondo RoboSpot facility in Akihabara. Check out the promotional video below for just a small sample of why we think it’s totally over the top!
Continue reading "If You Liked ROBO-ONE, Then You'll Love Dekinnoka! (Video)" »
We’re finally catching up with the stack of books and magazines in the queue. We picked up the current issue of Robot Magazine and were totally jazzed to discover Andrew Alter’s excellent article on the new Mech Warfare robot competition that will debut at RoboGames 2009 in just a few months. This is going to be really hot!
“. . . nothing mechanical will ever be able to whip an honest to goodness boxer.” “I could tear it to pieces, bolt by bolt and scatter its brain wheels and cogs all over the canvas.”
Pretty strong claims, but understandable considering that the speaker was none other than Jack “Manassa Mauler” Dempsey, one of the greatest boxers of all time, and the year was 1934. His comments, and the reasoning behind them, appeared in the April, 1934 issue of Modern Mechanix.
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