OVO » robots http://ovo127.com New works in the public domain since 1987. Thu, 17 May 2012 05:26:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Trevor Blake: Remmitron http://ovo127.com/2011/04/17/trevor-blake-remmitron/ http://ovo127.com/2011/04/17/trevor-blake-remmitron/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:44:12 +0000 admin http://ovo127.com/?p=21527

Trevor Blake: Remmitron. Silent, color, 46 seconds. Electric razor, screws, wire, glue.

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Trevor Blake: Vibrotifer. Silent, color, 31 seconds. Battery holder, motor, screws, toothbrushes, on/off button. Also called vibrobot, bristlebot, skitterbot. March 2010.

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“If you want, you can have this future.”

Japan, the world’s second largest economy, is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. The Japanese aren’t having babies, and the country won’t accept immigrants to help bolster the population. But Japan may have a unique solution – Robots!

If you are someone who thinks or writes about race, immigration, labor, technology, population or culture in the USA this video of how things are done in another country might be of interest.

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Fed by Birds

]]> http://ovo127.com/2009/08/01/fed-by-birds/feed/ 0 Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies – Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News – FOXNews.com http://ovo127.com/2009/07/16/upcoming-military-robot-could-feed-on-dead-bodies-science-news-science-technology-technology-news-foxnews-com/ http://ovo127.com/2009/07/16/upcoming-military-robot-could-feed-on-dead-bodies-science-news-science-technology-technology-news-foxnews-com/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:21:01 +0000 admin http://ovo127.com/2009/07/16/upcoming-military-robot-could-feed-on-dead-bodies-science-news-science-technology-technology-news-foxnews-com/ A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies – Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News – FOXNews.com

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OGRE Mark 1 by Trevor Blake. Drawn in Sketchup, rendered in the style of the videogame Battlezone. Based on OGRE by Steve Jackson Games. A paper model is in the works. Previous OGRE links here and here.

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Altdroid by Trevor Blake. 19 June 2009.

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Trevor Blake, Skitterbot 16 June 2009. Toothbrush, motor, tape, wire, switch, screw, battery holder, battery. Fast, can find walls and irregularities in the floor, could be fitted with a pen. Also known as a vibrobot or a bristlebot.

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YouTube – Festo AirPenguin

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