Jul 172011
 

The Sunday robot roundup!
(it’s Sunday here – anthrobotic.com broadcasts from southern Japan)

Soccer is, Um, Okay

Space is Awesome

Okay, well actually I’m only rounding up two projects.  First is the serious:  Making Robots Safer – adding sensing technology and intuitive dexterity to working robots such as Nasa’s Robonaut 2 – which is nice.  And then the playful:  Virginia Tech’s Robot Soccer Team – entrants into the worldwide RoboCup soccer game [chose your own lame verb-pun: terminated, disassembled, reprogramed, hacked, etc.] the rest of the world’s teams in robo-soccer.  These robots and the women’s meatspace world cup team have revealed that, though we realize the enjoyment of watching a soccer game is strong evidence of at least mild mental retardation, playing is fun – and American humans and non-biological intelligences actually CAN kick the ball and use no hands!

[VIA MIT TECH REVIEW & VIRGINIA TECH NEWS]

THIS STUFF IS RELATED:
Space Racing: – National Governments Benched and/or Losing Their Scholarships
WarBots – Robots & A.I. for War & Profit
The Robot Page at IEEE Spectrum – Anthrobotic Recommends (HIGHLY)
Tuesday Tekk Books
Robonaut 2 Now in Space – This Guy Says Hype – One Disagrees…