Thu 4 Sep 2008
This huge spider appeared last night at a building in Liverpool. People suffering from Arachnophobia should better stay at home for a few weeks, since this machine will walk the city soon for an exhibit. “La Princess” has been built by French company “La Machine”, weighs 37 tons and is 15 meters long.
Apparently, it is controlled by 12 people, but you never know…
Mon 1 Sep 2008
Professor Ng and his students have developed a technique to teach model helicopters acrobatic flight manoevers by “watching” an expert pilot fly. The news can already be found here. Watching does not mean that the helicopter flies after his teacher, but that the remote control information together with motion data of the helicopter is recorded and then used as learning data for a computer steering the autonomous heli. Cool stuff.
Mon 25 Aug 2008
Cool hack, but maybe it would be more fun as a multiplayer game.
Thu 3 Apr 2008
Hilarious! When you thought mankind was doomed after the previous post, watch this.
Sun 6 Jan 2008
WowWee is going to release several new robots: A FemiSapien who is in line with their popular home toy robot RoboSapien, but hopefully displays less neandertalian behaviour such as burping and farting. It will be interesting to find out if FemiSapien is also designed deliberately for hardware hacking. The other new robot from WowWee is a TriBot with holonomic wheels. This seems as a step back compared with the legged RoboSapien, but will allow for fast omnidirectional movements.
