mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 26 2008 | cmu, robot, dancing, video
click to playWith just 4 degrees of freedom, the dancing "blob" Keepon, does a great job of dancing expressively. He's a CMU robot, BTW:
Quoted: The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the song "I Turn My Camera On" by the band Spoon. See ...
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 25 2008 | aquabot, pool, cleaner, vacuum, robot
Our Aquabot pool vacuum is dying (after 7 years). We ordered this new model as a replacement.
We considered the iRobot, but it seems that it may be a less well made product (according to Amazon reviewers - and it's just a re-branding of an Aquabot product, anyway).
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 06 2008 | video, diy, robot, catapult
click to playNow that's a pretty cool DIY project...all you need is a surplus heavy duty in industrial robot.
Quoted: An industrial robot throws bowling balls 120 feet into the side of an RV. The guys from Mana Energy Potions proceed to light a bowling ball on fire and thro...
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 17 2008 | robot, pool. cleaner
This cleaner looks just like my current one. From the customer reviews it looks like iRobot is just reselling another manufacturers product. It lacks any intelligence, and just rolls randomly around the pool floor and sides.
Deceptively, the description here claims there are brushes that "scrub" the pool surfaces. In fact (according to other customer reviews - and just like my current unit), it just runs on two foam rollers that only "scrub" when the robot becomes stuck at the edges.
At $1,200 I would have expected more from iRobot.
