Friday, November 25, 2011

Robotland

South Korea and Japan are creating parks with the main theme to be robots
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/fast_track/9637666.stm

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Robotic evidence

Marshal Brain has an excellent blog on recent robotic developments, and how robots are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives

http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/

Robotic freedom, by Marshal Brain

Marshal Brain expresses his thoughts on the robotic future for society, and suggests some ideas on how to make the transition beneficial to everyone

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Arduino

IEEE Spectrum goes through the history of making Arduino, which has become very popular for robot building. More here http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/the-making-of-arduino

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Olly

Olly is a new device that connects to your computer and can deliver web notifications through smells. Definitely worth checking at http://ollyfactory.com. They will soon post instructions of how the device was made

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Friday, November 4, 2011

How to build an underwater robot

Interested in exploring the oceans, the lake near you, or just curious on how to build a robot from scratch? The following guide is a great introduction on how to build an underwater robot

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/for_fun/BuildUnderwaterRobot.pdf

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Boston Dynamics Humanoid

Boston dynamics has developed a humanoid that can walk, squat and do other moves a human body could do. Very flexible and accurate movements.



IEEE Spectrum has the story
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/stunning-video-of-boston-dynamics-petman-humanoid


Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Podcasts on robots

A list of 80+ episodes on robotics from experts in the area discussing the best robotic technologies http://www.robotspodcast.com/list

Reading the human brain

The Economist has an excellent article on new technologies used for brain scanning, able to identify and measure detailed activity in the human brain: http://www.economist.com/node/21534748?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/mindgoogling