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Interests: robotics and robots, culture, computers, networking, blogging, language, NLP (Neural Linguistic Programming), mentoring, strategic planning, investing

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Posted Jan 12, 2012 at Robots Dreams

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Nike Exploits Robotics and Parkour in an Exciting New Ad (Video)

Nike combines Parkour with robotics, at least computer graphic special effects robotics, to promote sports shoes. As awesome as the new Nike "Exploit Yourself" television commercial is, it should definitely be marked "Don't try this at home." Video after the break- (Via YouTube - Exploit Yourself ‏.) Continue reading

Posted Jul 4, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Robots Dreams Changes in the Works

You may have noticed that post have been rather scarce recently. In part that was caused by my work schedule, including spending the past week in the UK on a major customer assignment. While it's great for business, and helps keep a roof over our heads, it meant that we... Continue reading

Posted Jul 1, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Kondo ROBOSPOT Gets a Twitter Account

ROBOSPOT, Kondo Robot's popular company operated retail outlet in Akihabara and the location for robot competitions like KondoCup Robot Soccer and the Kondo Land multi-legged robot obstacle course event, just introduced a Twitter account to announce and promote their services and competitions. Posts to the ROBOSPOT twitter account will be... Continue reading

Posted Jul 1, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Fanastic Robot Coverage in the July ROBOCON Magazine Issue

The July issue of ROBOCON Magazine hit the news st... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Makerbot Drops the Price for the Original CupCake 3D Printer

We have no idea how long the supplies will last - they may have already run out - but Makerbot Industries has dropped the price of their original CupCake CNC 3D printer kit to an amazingly low USD$455. The CupCake 3D printer is the one that started it all -... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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The Robot Family Portrait Album Project

One of these days, perhaps in the not too distant future, robots and artificial intelligence technology will evolve to the point that our mechanical buddies will take on more and more of what we consider to be human characteristics. Over time they may even develop a deep longing for times... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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David Calkins "Robots Everywhere" Presentation

The "Robots Everywhere" presentation below by David Calkins, a.k.a. Mister Robotics and the founder of RoboGames, is three years old now, but is still very relevant and informative. The Slideshare presentation has a synced audio soundtrack if you use the play button at the bottom. David Calkins - Robots Everywhere... Continue reading

Posted Jun 12, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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How to Build a Humanoid Robot (Video)

Ever wonder what it takes to build one of the advanced humanoid robot kits like a Kondo KHR-3HV? It turns out to be not all that hard, though the process does require considerable concentration, persistence, and patience. Total assembly time is typically around 8-10 hours, though you will want to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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iPad2 on Wheels Makes an Impressive Remote Telepresence Robot (Video)

We want to be perfectly clear up front. This iPad remote telepresence robot isn't a product yet, but it is very, very close to becoming one, as you can see from the video below. The creative folks over at Taptic Toys have married up an iPad 2 with a balancing... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Aldebaran Robotics Snags Major Venture Investment Funds

It takes a ton of money to create, nurture, evolve, productize, and bring a successful new technology to market. All too often new ventures have fantastic ideas or great technology, but fail to grab the attention of investors with the capital that they desperately need to stay alive long enough... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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3D Printing Draws Attention From the Money Guys

We've been a strong believer in the future of 3D printing for over 20 years. That may seem like an odd statement to make since the technology has only recently started to catch on and capture public attention. But back in the late 1980's, while working for the Unigraphics CAD/CAM... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Unique Marine Robots Capture Substantial Venture Investment (Video)

Under the heading of "robot business", we were very pleased to see that even in today's extremely challenging business climate, robot ventures are continuing to attract substantial investment. While increased use of robotics isn't likely to result in a corresponding increase in employment for their human counterparts, contrary to popular... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Bre Pettis - Makerbot Guru - Immortalized in ABS Plastic (Video)

The Makerbot has created a huge revolution in creativity by making it possible for makers everywhere to cheaply and easily print 3D objects of their own design. The person (or personality) most commonly associated with the Makerbot and the whole 3D printing groundswell, is Bre Pettis, well known for his... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Robot Soccer Competition hits Major Milestone (Video)

It's really hard to believe that time has zipped by so fast, but never the less, the 25th KondoCup Robot Soccer competition is coming up in just under two weeks. It seems like just yesterday when we were thrilled to cover the first KondoCup Robot Soccer competition featuring our favorite... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Amazing Baltic Robot Sumo Demonstration (Video)

When we think of competitive robot sumo the first country that always comes to mind is Japan. It's where the robotic sport first originated, and has been actively promoted by FSI Corporation for the past 22 years. The teams are known for an obsessive focus on design and performance to... Continue reading

Posted May 31, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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The Ultimate "Service" Robot

Everyone agrees that the most promising future for robotics is in the service sector. So far, practical applications have been limited primarily to fairly mundane domestic tasks like robot vacuum cleaners. What will turn out to be the "killer application" for household robotics? How about a humanoid robot toilet like... Continue reading

Posted May 27, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Invest 10 Minutes to Improve Robotics for (Your) Future

Got 10 minutes free to invest in improving the future of robotics? Angelica Lim, a.k.a. "thepetitegeek" is doing some interesting graduate level research work at Kyoto University on robots expressing emotions and other behaviors normally associated with human beings. She is also an active NAO Developer Program participant and has... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Ecovacs Deepoo D76 Robot Vacuum Cleaner Navigation (Video)

The Spanish robot website, Robots al Detalle, evaluates the navigation system of the Ecovacs Deepoo D76 robot vacuum cleaner. Although the captions are in Spanish, it's pretty easy to understand the meaning from the video footage. And, yes, we were just waiting for the robot to pull the lamp off... Continue reading

Reblogged May 22, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Ponoko announces Personal Factory™ 5 Making Platform

via blog.ponoko.com David ten Have, the CEO and founder of Ponoko, just announced Personal Factory 5 including Personal Factory App Gateway that enables use of the new AutoDesk 123D free 3D design software for makers. According to the official Ponoko blog: "From day one, we envisioned Ponoko creating a platform... Continue reading

Reblogged May 19, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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AutoDesk President Carl Bass on the new 123D 3D Design Product (Video)

via www.youtube.com Chris Anderson from Wired interviews AutoDesk President Carl Bass about the new free 123D 3D design product aimed at the "maker" community. Continue reading

Reblogged May 19, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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AutoDesk Gets on the 3D Maker Bandwagon

You can tell when a grassroots movement has really caught on when big companies start to roll out their own initiatives and products following the lead of pioneers that have already broken trails into the new frontier. That definitely seems to be the case with AutoDesk's new 123D software platform.... Continue reading

Posted May 19, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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PARO Robot Seal - Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (Video)

via www.youtube.com PARO, the therapeutic robot seal that has been used effectively in centers for the elderly, hospitals, and care facilities, will be demonstrated this Sunday, May 22, 2011, at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. The robots creator, Dr. Takanori Shibata will give a presentation covering the robots... Continue reading

Reblogged May 19, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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This robot has so much character and expression that we almost considered buying it at the Design Festa show so we could hang it on the wall at home. But that would mean having to get rid of at least one of the robots we already have there... Continue reading

Posted May 18, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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Undersea Robot - Almost....

This beautiful robotic like creature was on display at the Design Festa event here last weekend. Although it is primarily a work of art, we'd love to see someone turn it into a fully functioning, ocean-going robot. Continue reading

Posted May 18, 2011 at Robots Dreams

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