Robots [pics](boston.com)
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Robots [pics]
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/robots.html
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Also, here's a video of Big Dog's early predecessor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
How the robot deals with ice is incredible. Thanks for the link!
OMG!
When I started watching that I was thinking that if I was ever in a situation where this robot was chasing me uphill through a forest I would just run up to it and kick it over to slow it down. Then 30 seconds later they demonstrate how well you can expect that plan to turn out :)
When I started watching that I was thinking that if I was ever in a situation where this robot was chasing me uphill through a forest I would just run up to it and kick it over to slow it down. Then 30 seconds later they demonstrate how well you can expect that plan to turn out :)
Looks really Metal Gear-ish, doesn't it? A bit like a quadrupedal GEKKO...
Maybe this could be the thing that brings back technology companies to Massachusetts? A big chunk (I'd say a majority, but I didn't count) of these robots are from companies in or around Boston (including my favorite BigDog from Boston Dynamics in Waltham).
Maybe we'll call it Robot Cove?
Edit: I do realize this is an article from boston.com...
Maybe we'll call it Robot Cove?
Edit: I do realize this is an article from boston.com...
No, they will all come here to Pittsburgh to work with Red Whittaker and the CMU Robotics department.
At least, I'm hoping... :)
At least, I'm hoping... :)
Is the anybody out there doing robotics in a start-up or this is the playground of well funded research?
Well, there is Trevor Blackwell (of YC), who started Anybots...
http://anybots.com/
http://anybots.com/
One of my teachers (Akim Demaille from Epita) leads a French start up whose aim is to unify the way we communicate with robots (sort of) : http://www.gostai.com/
iRobot, who were once a start-up themeselves, recently bought Nekton Research, a start-up that made underwater robots. I suspect that most start-ups are spun out of the research world and have the military as their primary customers.
Oh this is totally going to end up as a huge venture capital fad. 5 years? 20 years? Hard to say exactly when.
After that, it's totally going to hit the world like a sack of bricks.
After that, it's totally going to hit the world like a sack of bricks.
Robotic Nation from Marshall Brain (the "how stuff works" guy)
Have we learned nothing? Don't name your robot HAL!
The Toyota trumpeters approached the uncanny valley. They have an "X-files" alien species look to me.
It's pretty creepy, when you imagine what's to come...