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I wish HD existed back then.

PR2 Beta Program: The Call for Proposals is Out! | Willow Garage

Don’t really know much about this PR2 Beta robot, but if you can prove that your institution would put it to good use, you can apply to get one for free.

Personally if WALL-E and Eve had a baby, I think it would look something like this.

It works off Robot Operating System, or ROS 1.0, which seems to be an open source programing language for robots.

As BotJunkie puts it, “Basically, the idea behind ROS is to keep people from having to reinvent the wheel over and over again for each new robot, so that people can spend their time improving the wheel and inventing the hoverpad, as it were.”

(via BotJunkie)

“Everybody’s trying to teach preschoolers how to read and nobody is trying to teach them how to do math”…

In some ways the new program is standard children’s fare. The main characters are miniature superheroes — a boy, a girl and a break-dancing robot — who zoom about fixing simple crises in their city, whether a shortage of milk, a lost kite or a subway system stalled by a dropped mitten. But the show is infused in all aspects — down to character Milli’s pony tails that turn into a ruler — with concepts from an interactive math curriculum that the characters tap to solve their problems, including shape-matching, counting, simple computation and measurement.

New Nickelodeon Show to Focus on Math – NYTimes.com

No idea what an Umizoomi is in Nick’s new show “Team Umizoomi,” but it’s cool that they’re aiming to teach kids math, which they say is an area left pretty opening in children’s television, aside form Sesame Street. Plus it stars a robot.

The construction and competition of combat robots is a hobby for all but a select few builders. Robots builders may be middle-aged engineers, or enthusiastic teenagers. Robot building can teach young people a great deal about technology, and some schools use the construction of combat robots in their courses.

via Everything You Wanted to Know About Fighting Robots as Sport | The Russian electronic novelties.

More cool concept illustrations. I love the colors and renderings in this collection, plus the 40s throwback.

concept robots: Concept robots by Brian Despain.

I think my favorite part is the quote. But these devices are really entertaining.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all… – but does it float.

Set it to full screen. This reminds me a lot of Power of 10. It’ll also remind you of every question you ever had of life, the universe, and everything.

via A Fabulous Journey Through The Known Universe.

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Robotic chair fine art.