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a thief stole the $5,000 robot during a car break-in Sunday night.

PSU Lab’s 90-Pound Robot Stolen – Portland News Story – KPTV Portland

Chiu-Yuan Fang’s BEAM Robotics Table of Contents

Main Page – BEAM Robotics Wiki

Jim Mullins’ BEAM Art

Opposable Thumbs / Devo was right

When the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and flight 93 were attacked by terrorists in 2001, killing 2974 people from over 90 nations, engineers at a spaceflight robotics company a few blocks away from the Twin Towers decided to commemorate the loss of life – on Mars. Honeybee Robotics, a company building some of the instruments for the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity, obtained some metal wreckage that they fashioned into two cable shields and two spares (in case the launches failed) to protect wiring on each rover from rock impacts. With a US flag affixed to each, the shields are now in service on opposite sides of the Red Planet.

[Article continues at link. I think of this as a fitting FU to the Muslim world: hey, while you're busy trying to re-create the 14th Century, we're going to go ahead and explore other planets. You go have fun, okay? - Trevor Blake]

YouTube – balbot

Let’s Make Robots! | Let’s Make Robots!

Computational neuroscientists designed a robot that teaches itself how to walk on differing terrain.

World’s Fastest Robot — Computational Neuroscientists And Engineers Build Robot That Teaches Itself To Walk Up And Down Hills

RoboSwift is a micro airplane fitted with movable wings, inspired by the common swift, one of nature’s most efficient flyers

RoboSwift

The installation ‘bios [bible]‘ consists of an industrial robot, which writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision. Like a monk in the scriptorium it creates step by step the text. Starting with the old testament and the books of Moses ‘bios [bible]’ produces within seven month continuously the whole book.

robotlab

SolarBubbles flew the $2,500 plane around a field in Milan, Michigan for a total of 10 hours, 15 minutes and 4 seconds – smashing the previous 9 hour record held by a Californian engineering company.

Michigan Students Set World Record for Longest Flight by Fuel Cell Powered Plane : Gas 2.0

six legged robot with an attached CNC router for a head

Incredible Walking CNC Robot Router | Hack N Mod

HONDA has unveiled a new walking assist machine designed to make it easier for the elderly to climb stairs and help factory workers. [Rival company 'religion' has made no similar announcement in all of human history]

Honda unveils robotic legs that could improve people’s mobility | NEWS.com.au

Solar seeking botanical augmentation.

THE PLAY COALITION

autonomous, stable and robust straight-line flight and hovering, as well as take-off and landing. A pinhole camera payload is currently integrated with data transmission capability.

YouTube – ExoFly Promo Video

Servocity

We are dedicated to the advancement of the field of robotics using insights gained through the study of biological mechanisms.

Biorobotics Lab

Electric razor, nut, beam, glue, coat hangers, wire. Rechargable, loud, can find walls and irregularities in the floor, could be fitted with a pen. Also known as a vibrobot.

Toothbrush, paperclip, motor, tape, solder, battery. Also known as a bristlebot or a vibrobot.