The long-awaited robot cat is available, albeit in an early and rather basic form. It needs to have programmable gestures, by the look of it, to expand the range of actions. Also the different purr types and meows. Though doubtless various toy-hacking nerds are working on that… Not quite as cool as…
Archive for the ‘Robotics’ Category
Latte artist-of-the-day, delivered by robots
17 Aug 2015 at 12:52
David Haden
Creative industries, Robotics, Zeitgeist
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It seems that the robot coffee-froth-art baristas are on their way, though not quite yet in kitchens on the High St. Once the bots are proven in the chain coffee shops and have a central database of latte art designs to choose from, could chains then have a curated “artist of the day”? With the […]
Return of the Flying Circus
15 Feb 2015 at 07:21
David Haden
Artist(s), Creative industries, Robotics
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The Circus of Drones…
‘You’ll believe a nerd can fly!’
Drone with real-time streaming HD video steady-cam + a connected Oculus Rift = flying like a bird. Or, more likely, Drone Races!
Robot Renaissance Map
Robot Renaissance Map. The PDF link is dead (Web host bandwidth issues, at a guess). It’s also available here.
Geeksworld
Geeksworld looks like an interesting one-day event in Birmingham in September 2010… [ Hat-tip: Nikki Pugh ]
Flowbot
Is it a robot, a vacuum-cleaner, an artwork, a TV, a personal assistant? All of these… and a concept, at present…
RoboThespian
The first 20 seconds of the video are a “teaser”, then the robot really starts acting.
Motion Disabled
Fab! Robots and motion-capture rig art, and premiering in a local art gallery. Motion Disabled opens today at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, … “Artist Simon McKeown’s Motion Disabled, a moving digital sculpture of films recapturing the movements of disabled actors through miniature, skeletal robots, is designed to re-present the ways in which five physically impaired people […]
Center for Future Storytelling
24 Nov 2008 at 08:30
David Haden
Artist(s), Creative industries, Creative software, Entertainment, Gaming, Robotics, Zeitgeist
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MIT announce a $25m Center for Future Storytelling. No dedicated website yet, but it sounds promising — especially as MIT is generally committed to making its talks, and substantial parts of MIT Press books available online for free.
James yeah?
Custom Toy Lab chooses Birmingham’s ‘James yeah?’ for their first interview… “I’d like to custom something like a … full-size replica robot outfit complete with weapons.” Fight! by ‘James yeah?’. I’m wondering if there’s going to be a cross-over between custom toys and gaming, with people paying to get 3D-printed / hand-finished toy versions of […]
Robo-builders
26 May 2008 at 09:20
David Haden
Nerds, Photographers, Robotics, Teaching
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Rich Press‘s photo-essay on the young robot-building nerds of New York…
Blogging plants
BIAD graduate Andy Broomfield (I supervised his dissertation) has just released source code for a Blog Bot Platform project…. “…an open source platform to allow people to design their own blogging robots” He showed a working prototype in Jan 08 at the Royal College of Art Design Interactions: Work in Progress show… “my first example […]
Googlebots on the moon
Veerryy cool. Googlebots on the moon… “The Google Lunar X Prize is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon” They’ve now signed up and announced ten private teams (from 560 expressions of interest), who should launch in 2012. You may have seen it on durh […]
Design for Life
24 Jan 2008 at 19:47
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Robotics, Techie
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Inspired by Birmingham’s Design City 08? Design grants of up to £30k are available from the Audi Foundation. The deadline for applications to the Design for Life programme is 31st March 08. On offer are grants of between £10,000 and £30,000… “in order to produce design solutions to enhance the world in which we live”. […]
Toy-hacking
17 Jan 2008 at 13:41
David Haden
Creative software, Nerds, Robotics, Techie, Zeitgeist
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Tinker.it are running toy-hacking workshops in London. Take advantage of all that cheap Chinese tech inside toys, to radically detourn them.
spurtBOT
Just launched: spurtBOT : tracking the ‘robot love, sex & marriage’ meme.
What did you change your mind about in 2007?
01 Jan 2008 at 23:45
David Haden
Artist(s), Robotics, Teaching, Zeitgeist
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The Edge has asked 100 of the English-speaking world’s leading thinkers and writers — “What did you change your mind about in 2007?” Almost all of the comments come from the fields of science and philosophy/theology, but there are some interesting snippets in there… “Plucking one early weed from a bed of germinating seeds changes […]
Arse Electronica
14 Oct 2007 at 14:27
David Haden
Cool sites, Creative industries, Robotics, Teaching
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Now there’s an event that should be brought to the West Midlands: the three-day Arse Electronica: pornography and technological innovation. You might chuckle; but some key historical examples show that, given half a chance, pornography will strongly drive the early adoption of a new media technology. Yes; eroticrobot-human marriages may be only a decade or […]
“All your Cultural Studies are belong to us”
27 Jul 2007 at 15:45
David Haden
Creative industries, Entertainment, Gaming, Nerds, Robotics, Teaching, Techie
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Fab academo-geek conference alert: GikII, 19th September 07 in London. “[last year saw] the first workshop in the world where the worlds of law, technology and popular culture came together. We want to discuss whether geek law exists; by the end of the workshop we had created it. Topics covered at the first workshop included […]