Sweet kid’s robot costume
Reader Mike Wakefield made this robot costume for his son, Arlen. It has batteries and blinky lights! Beep boop beep!
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Meet Seiko-chan, the balancing robot
Ever wish you had a friend to unicycle with you? Well, I don’t actually know how to unicycle, but I still want one of these robots to follow me around.
“Blind Juggler” bounces ball without sensory input
Thanks to careful engineering, this blind juggler robot is able to keep a ball bouncing on its surface without any feedback about where the ball may or may not be.
Electroadhesive climber robots
MAKE reader Travis pointed out this neat technology that is being used to make robots that can climb on almost any surface. Scientists at SRI have been developing robotic climbers that attach to the wall using a technique they call electroadhesion.
Wallbots: Robots that climb your fridge!
Stacey Kuznetzov made these fun robots that can traverse vertical metallic surfaces. Each bot is programmed with a unique personality and has embedded light sensors to perform some basic human interactions. She has an Instructable that explains how to make them. If you don’t have a metallic surface to infest with robots, you might want […]
More Braitenberg vehicles at Tinkerlog
Alex at Tinkerlog has been enamored with Braitenberg vehicles recently. Here’s his latest batch of “tiny Braitenberg vehicles.” I was hugely inspired and influenced by Valentino Braitenberg’s book (Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology) when it first came out in the early 80s, so I love to see people experimenting with the different “emotions” that can […]
Designing walls for robot bricklayers
The folks at The Wolfram Blog sent us a link to this story about using Mathematica to design unconventionally shaped, but (hopefully) structurally sound, brick walls that robotic masons might build. The author of the piece, Chris Carlson, Wolfram’s Chief Interactive Graphics Developer, writes: A few groups have begun to experiment with the idea of […]
