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Thursday, July 28, 2005 |
Robotics Company Plans an Offering. The iRobot Corporation, maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner and the PackBot bomb-disarming robot, said on Tuesday that it was planning an initial public stock offering valued at up to $115 million. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [NYT > Business]
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Friday, July 8, 2005 |
Pixar artists launch indie comix company, blogs at Comic Con. Xeni Jardin:
Several artists from Pixar are joining forces to create comic book titles as E-Ville Press (short for Emeryville, where Pixar headquarters are located). Their work debuts at Comic Con in San Diego, July 13-17. Several titles will have corresponding blogs. Most of the artwork was digitally generated.
Titles include: "Colossus" by Mark Andrews - A knight's soul is trapped in a war machine's metal body, and faces a kingdom's evil paladin.
"Rose and Isabel" by Ted Mathot - A story of two sisters who join the American Civil War to save their three brothers.
"Afterworks" - an anthology of short stories by Simon Dunsdon, Robert Kondo, Nate Stanton, Max Brace, Kevin O'Brien, Sanjay Patel, Louis Gonzales and Jay Shuster. Story previews here.
Several other Pixar artists will be attending Comic Con, with their own booths. They include Ronnie Del Carmen with "Paper Biscuit 2.5 - Froggy's Lament"; Enrico Casarosa with "SketchCrawling"; and Jamie Baker with "Rocket Rabbit"
(Thanks, The Moth!) [Boing Boing]
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Saturday, January 22, 2005 |
Army Prepares 'Robo-Soldier' for Iraq (AP). AP - The rain is turning to snow on a blustery January morning, and all the men gathered in a parking lot here surely would prefer to be inside. But the weather couldn't matter less to the robotic sharpshooter they are here to watch as it splashes through puddles, the barrel of its machine gun pointing the way like Pinocchio's nose. [Yahoo! News: Technology]
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Sunday, November 14, 2004 |
Robodump 1.0 - an excellent prank. Mark Frauenfelder:
Kevin Kelm made a robot that looks like someone taking a dump. You can listen to the soundtrack at his site.
 
RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds.
I snuck RoboDump into the men's room at the office. Unfortunately, today turned out to be the day of a board meeting. Whoops! It still went over well; the office was abuzz all morning with gossip about the guy in the bathroom. Several people theorized it was the CFO. The janitor commented to someone in the hallway that he wanted to clean the restroom but "this guy's been in there all morning."
Link
[Boing Boing]
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
Robot librarian. Researchers at Universitat Jaume I in Spain are designing a robot librarian of sorts. The three-wheeled bot listens for verbal book requests, heads to the approximate location of the title on a shelf, and uses digital cameras to read the spines. The toughest challenge is engineering a grasper with "fingernails" to pull out the book, Professor Angel del Pobil told the BBC:
"It is mimicking the way we manipulate our hands. We have constant feedback from tactile sensors, so it is moving very slowly. In the first experiments, the books really got damaged because it was pressing too hard. Now it touches gently."
Link [Boing Boing]
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StreetTech has some great snapshots of the robot-building competition between local high-schoolers in NYC, called