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BEAM Solar Robots
Retromatix based in London has created some cool solar powered robots using BEAM principles. BEAM stands for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics and was invented by Mark Tilden. BEAM robots use simple analog circuits in favor of more complicated circuits using a microprocessor. See some of our first BEAM style robots on our build page. Wikipedia [...]
Robots Career Change
A former industrial robot has decided to change his career path and become an actor on stage. Moving from a noisy welding environment to recently being in the production Sans Objet as part of the London International Mime Festival, is the large robotic arm shown in this screen shot. Who knew robots and mimes worked [...]
Robots To Join London Fire Brigade
The defense and security company QintetiQ has developed a range of firefighting robots. It has been testing them in England. Last week one of the robots was taken to a live incident at Membury Airfield to assess a situation involving gas canisters. The firefighting robots will be particularly useful in potentially explosive situations. A two [...]