this is new

Seeking beauty isn't everything

the future of mankind being revealed

Tremble, mortals, and despair. Doom has come to your world.

This is the arm made by us (TRI) using RC servos...... 5 degrees of freedom...

This Robot is fully autonomous (not radio controlled), it navigates itself. This robot was built for the worlds largest open robotics competition. We took second in the expert division in 2003.

The Hilo High School's AVA Animation for 2008 FIRST Season

Courtesy of Walt Disney

Thisis a video presentation of a computer animated robotic show featuring several life sized robots that come to life to tell a chilling Halloween story.

Music video by Beck for the song "Hell Yes", featuring the "QRIO" robots by Sony.

This is the second, single shot, version.

Music video by Beck for the song "Hell Yes", featuring the "QRIO" robots by Sony.

Old school Toonami ^_~

The many giant robots of Toonami step into the spotlight.

RiSE is a small six-legged robot that climbs vertical terrain such as walls, trees and fences. RiSE's feet have claws, micro-claws or sticky material, depending on the climbing surface. RiSE changes posture   more...to conform to the curvature of the climbing surface and a fixed tail helps RiSE balance on steep ascents. RiSE is about 0.25 m long, weighs 2 kg, and travels 0.3 m/s. Each of RiSE's six legs is powered by two electric motors. An onboard computer controls leg motion, manages communications, and services a variety of sensors.  less

A Lego robot I built that climbs the stairs in my house.

A discussion on the exponential growth we are seeing in genetics, nanotechnology, computing power, robotics, aging, and immortality. The "Singularity" is predicted to arrive in 2045...The year   more...I turn 69!  less

A description of the Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot, by Garnet Hertz:

"Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" is an experimental mechanism that uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach atop   more...a modified trackball to control a three-wheeled robot. If the cockroach moves left, the robot moves left. Infrared sensors also provide navigation feedback to the cockroach, striving to create a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as the CPU

Project website :
http://www.conceptlab.com/roachbot  less

Michael Mozart of Jeepers media presents a toy review of a robotic, radio controlled, monkey.


Can you say creepy?

"Japan. Stop with the Robots!!!"

Tom Megalis asks, "Why do those smartie pants Japanese people insist on building all those stupid Robots?"

Megalis Studio :
http://megalistv.com

Tom Megalis   more...on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/megalisstudio  less

The HRP2 "Promet" is a general purpose, humanoid, robot assistant designed to help in construction and research.

Looks like it can give ASIMO a run for its money.

The Roomba by iRobot seems to have some competition.

Yujin Robot company has created iClebo, an automated house cleaning robot vacuum.

I'm not sure how this one compares to the Roomba, but this is an impressive   more...product demo.

Product website (Korean) :
http://iclebo.com/main.php

Product website (English) :
http://www.iclebo.com/english/index.php

Yujin Robot (Korean) :
http://www.yujinrobot.com

Yujin Robot (English) :
http://www.yujinrobot.com/english  less

Daft Punk track "Technologic" as featured in those popular iPod commercials.
(MTV put the title as "Technology")

This is from their album "Human After All" released as a single   more...in 2005  less

I had to upload this a third time, since the previous two didn't have any audio!
Apologies to anyone who favorited or followed outdated links.


Another video by Chris Cunningham, this time for Squarepusher.
  more...
One featuring more of his bizzare trickery
This video is just too strange to describe. You have to see it for yourself.


Director File - Squarepusher video:
http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/square.html  less

What's five inches tall, has no mouth and dances to music?
Why, it's an interactive robot for infants, of course.

This robot was designed by Hideki Kozima as part of a child development, interaction and   more...research project.

Kozima profile:
http://univ.nict.go.jp/people/xkozima/index-eng.html

From the site :
"I am a scientist working on cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and robotics. My major research interest is "the ability to imagine others' mind", which is the underlying core mechanism for interpersonal communication specific to human species. Where did it come from? How does it develop over time? Investigating these issues, I would like to make robots and artificial systems that have "the ability to imagine others' mind", which would enables them to understand people's feelings and pain, to make a promise with people, and then to live together with people in the community."

More information on the Infanoid Project :
http://univ.nict.go.jp/people/xkozima/infanoid/index-eng.html


Found via Marek Michalowski :
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~marekm/projects/beatbots/  less

I've been reworking Phigets Studio and am close to finishing an interactive graphical user interface for servos. My new design provides a more more... visual representation of a physical device. This   more...video show the min. and max postion sliders I have added.  less