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Robo Bird Scares Pigeons
Pesky pigeons making a mess of your parking lot? Seagulls being a complete nuisance? Well then you need a Robop. Robop is a robotic peregrine falcon that scares away other pesky birds like pigeons or seagulls. Robop was invented by John Donald in Edingurgh and can been controlled by your WAP enabled phone. A solar [...]
Marv The Robotic Vibraphone
Meet Marve the robotic vibraphone. He was created by Tim O’Keefe, Michael McIntyre, and Brock Roland at the SFSU School of Engineering. From the website: Marv can play music of high complexity, far more complex than a human player could ever achieve, as Marv is capable of striking any and all keys simultaneously, as well [...]
Humanoid Travels On Airplane
Ibn Sina, the Arabic speaking robot, recently traveled by airplane from from Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. He stunned fellow travelers as he arrived in a wheelchair, and hung out in the lounge before boarding the flight. The planning and integration of numerous Emirates departments is testament to our commitment to [...]
Spiderbot
University of Arizona student Matt Bunting has created a cool hexabot that looks like a spider. The robot also landed him a job offer and an order for two of the robots. Making robots can be fun and rewarding. Every time the robot is turned on, it must learn again how to walk. If a [...]
BEAM Battle Bots
Solarbotics has a new Instructible up on how to build a Solar Powered Battle Symet. This looks really fun as these BEAM robots spin a lot faster than their predecessors and are easy to make. From the Instructible: BEAM Solar Symets (a contraction from “Symmetrical Robots”) were first built by Mark Tilden many years ago as [...]