Archive for July 21st, 2008

Designer Ann P Smith creates amazing robotic animal sculptures from broken electronics and machine parts. The sculptures are sold in stores and galleries throughout the US and have been published as illustrations in magazines and brochures. Some of her clients include Chevron lubricants division, Cricket Magazine, and Cicada Magazine. You can also watch animations of her robotic sculptures in action at her website and buy them from her etsy shop.

[Ann Smith's Etsy Shop]

They just keep rolling out new homebuilt bots. This one’s pretty cute. Thank God it’s not wearing plaid pants and a hat.

We showed you the teaser trailer for Terminator Salvation. Here’s another image. John Conner fragging? a Terminator.

Hitachi Ltd exhibited its second humanoid robot, “EMIEW2,” at Hitachi uValue Convention 2008, the company’s private show that took place from July 17 to 18, 2008, at Tokyo International Forum. It’s the second humanoid from Hitachi and this one outdoes the first, being equipped with 14 separate microphones that can recognize 3 separate voices involved in conversation simultaneously. The EMIEW2 is light-weight, moves on wheels and two legs and the 14 microphones mounted in the head enhance its voice recognition capabilities.

[Techon]

It’s a fact that nerds often lack friends to play games with. That’s where 2robot comes in, from Novag. The game board has a robot arm which becomes your rival and arch enemy. The game has 128 playing levels, 736 byte RAM, 8MHz system clock speed, and even a hint key. You can also take chess lessons from the robot arm in training mode. That’s good because 2Robot usually solves to ‘mate’ in 6 moves.

The 2Robot will be available September 2008, you can pre-order now at ChessUsa.com.

[Chessusa]