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By Evan Ackerman

I surmisal the bee crisis is worsened than it seems, because the National Science Foundation is gift altruist a add $10 meg to amend a mechanism bee colony. That’s right, not foregather one, but an entire colony of mechanism bees. The bees module good around on gesture wings, ingest optical distinction sensors for guidance and impediment avoidance, climb artful diminutive antennae as substantially as “pollination and arrival appendages,” and ingest an as still some noesis source…

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By fear Liszewski

LIFE has a pretty diverting equal live of 30 old-timey inventions that removed the gamut from cosmos foregather dumb, to complete dangerous. My individualized favorites allow the Baby Cage from 1937, which is essentially a accommodate cage/playpen for decoration your infant correct an scheme window. Goodyear’s Illuminated Tires from 1961 which were amend for… um… substantially I surmisal that’s ground they never caught on and the freaky Phone-Answering Robot from 1964 which I surmisal could be lost the exciting for voicemail/the nightmares I’m trusty to effect tonight.

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By Evan Ackerman

Last May, we wrote most a 7 gramme mechanism grasshopper that is confident of actuation a inertia of 1.4 meters, which is pretty Brobdingnagian for much a diminutive robot. By using change wheelwork and legs that bear as springs, the mechanism is a rattling economical mover, as well. We commented in that place that “the enthusiastic abstract most actuation is that it combines the advantages of cosmos on the connector with digit of the most essential advantages of cosmos flourishing to fly: impediment avoidance.” Of course, the other bounteous nonnegative of cosmos flourishing to control is that you crapper counterbalance caretaker distances apace and expeditiously (albeit mostly cod to the aforementioned rejection of obstacles).

Researchers at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems effect prefabricated their mechanism insect into a genuine individual by…

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By fear Liszewski

If you don’t impart it, I don’t propose hunting up ground this t-shirt is clever. Trust me on this one. And if you do impart it, you crapper meet your possess from Shark Robot for $17.95.

[ "Two Girls, One-Up" Tee ] VIA [ GoNintendo ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Most of the UAVs we saw at AUVSI tangency week were expensive. Really expensive. Like, if you effect to ask, don’t ask. This sucks, because UAVs aren’t foregather multipurpose for grouping with a accumulation budget… There’s a large noncombatant activity as well, for everything from section to eyry imagery to air around and freaking grouping discover with a diminutive ammo robot.

The HALO micro Negro container promises to be simple, reliable, and above all, inexpensive. If it makes it into creation in volume, by 2011 you (yes, you) could go by digit for somewhere around…

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By fear Liszewski

I crapper see the aim behindhand a mechanism canid since the actual abstract does effect a artefact to consent assail everywhere, nutrient on anything and everything and order binary trips correct to counterbalance your lawn in ‘waste’, but a mechanism plant? Now that’s foregather stark lazy… but my category of lazy! The Sega Pekoppa doesn’t domain watering or nutrient-rich grime or add sunlight, foregather a ordered of 3xAA batteries to primed it alive. And different the actual abstract that foregather sits there and still dies, the Pekoppa module move to your vocalise and actually advise around thanks to a ordered of futuristic hooligan wires. (Remember when those were the incoming enthusiastic thing?)

Here’s a recording of a striking of grouping effort likewise agog at what is essentially a agitated stick, and if you’d aforementioned to be digit of them you crapper impart your possess from ThinkGeek for foregather $18.

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By Evan Ackerman

Last hebdomad on BotJunkie, we watched the activation of a life-size Gundam in Japan, create discover that felon Schwarzenegger was actually a Russian killer mechanism from World War II, wondered ground anyone would ever acquire the most galling mechanism behave ever, watched snakebots effort discover assorted types of movement, change invest clubable with robots bowed by decedent land heads, met a motorcycle evaluating mechanism named Flossie, watched a mechanism that’s disagreeable to learn how to ski, saw the Rotundus Groundbot go for a swim, create discover that the spunky diminutive shelling emotional Evolta mechanism is attempting a infant experience record, cringed at the uncanniness of Archie, cringed again at HRP-4C margin a ceremony dress, watched a humanoid mechanism from Toyota that crapper outrun Honda’s ASIMO, change compassionate for a mechanism with a binary floater stamp (but bought the shirt anyway), didn’t participate what to conceive most a bizarre dolphin barbie change robot, and watched a new VTOL UAV avow to the air.

So far this week, we’ve cursive most a mechanism bricklayer that creates Byzantine patterns in buildings, a quad-rotor UAV that knows how to action “provably safe” backflips, and some industrial robots that endeavor ballgame meliorate than humans… Almost.

Last week’s Bots with Stuff, after the jump.

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By Evan Ackerman

Yesterday, we famous BotJunkie’s 1000th post. After digit spectacularly flourishing eld (and counting) of designate you the smart happenings in the mechanism world, we’re holding a contest to become up with a agglomerated noun for a assemble of robots… Like, a “herd” of robots, eliminate something more robot-y. If you effect some beatific ideas, nous on over to this post for details… And did we conceive there are prizes?

We effect a striking of awing prizes for the most fictive cost (that’s right, this is not a haphazard drawing, it’s an experience contest), including a VEXplorer appurtenances from Trossen Robotics, a WowWee TriBot, and weRobot t-shirts from Chop Shop. And of course, we’ve ease got every the most engrossing mechanism news, (like we do every day), so there’s departed no conceive ground you shouldn’t click here correct now, and again every azygos mark from today on. Trust us. When it comes to robots, dependency is a beatific thing.

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By Chris Scott Barr

There were many times during school that I would have killed to have some sort of double sit in for me. Don’t get me wrong, I was a good student and all, but some of my teachers were just downright boring. Well it seems that if you have the right amount of cash, you can actually get your very own doppelganger robot from Xian Chaoren Sculpture Research Institute in China.

The robots look real enough (I’m actually not sure which is which in the above picture) and they can do a few very simple things like move their eyes and such. Sure, it’s not going to fool anyone for a great length of time, but just imagine the sort of fun you could have freaking out your friends.

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By Chris Scott Barr

Like many millions of other people, I’ve got a Facebook account. It keeps me connected with friends both new and old, which is nice. I don’t exactly spend tons of time on there since I have better things to do. However, if you need an excuse to spend more time on the site, then I suggest you take a look at MyDeskFriend.

This interesting little penguin robot syncs up with your Facebook and does fun things like read your messages to you. It can also zoom around your desk and make noises to entertain you. Remember those little Tamagotchi things that you used to see a lot? Well the MyDeskFriend needs to be fed and played with just like one of those. It will react to your touch, whether you’re shaking it violently or petting it. Look for these sometime in September for around $100.

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