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Underwater Robot Testing

March 13, 2010

Underwater Robot Test Run from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. Today 16 of the above underwater robots are going to be built by 6th graders, mentored by seniors. The robots have a waterproof camera that goes up to a laptop, so you can explore the ocean. The robots are being built in preparation for BioBlitz in Biscayne National [...]

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Top 10 BattleBot Moments | Robotworld

March 2, 2010

Top 10 Battlebot Moments | Robotworld I wish HD existed back then.

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The First Adventures of ROFL

February 26, 2010
The First Adventures of ROFL

The First Adventures of ROFL from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. ROFL is a BattleBot unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s described as an angry child having a temper tantrum. In later adventures, I put a camera in the box with ROFL and let him go at it. Stay tuned for that pretty funny footage.

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Going to the Moon or Grounded on Earth?

February 5, 2010

Check out this video on saving NASA’s Constellation program and Ares rocket (the program that was going to replace the Space Shuttle and take us back to the moon, and then Mars). In his proposed budget Obama wants to raise NASA funding by about 2%, but cut the Constellation program (and basically manned space flight), [...]

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Welcome to RobotShop – New Sponsor!

January 28, 2010

Welcome aboard to RobotShop, a new sponsor of Bots High, as you’ll notice in the sidebar. They’ve just created a documentary page in their resources section and guess what the first film is they listed that relates to robotics! Contact me if you or your company is interested in becoming a sponsor.

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More (Steve) Jobs and Ambitions to Become a Disney Animatronic

January 27, 2010

Obama should launch his own moon shot. What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, but more stimulation. We need to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses, excited about innovation and entrepreneurship again. We need to make 2010 what Obama should have made 2009: the year of innovation, the [...]

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Score a Free Robot (Looks Like Spawn of WALL-E and Eve)

January 26, 2010

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 [...]

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How BattleBots could help Haiti (And How You Can Too)

January 15, 2010

In talking to people about my project, and in talking to Nola, the director of BattleBotsIQ, a fair number of responses we get when we describe kids building BattleBots is something along the lines of “it’s violent.” Now I could go off on a whole other post comparing BattleBots injuries to football, boxing, or even cheerleading (all sanctioned sports), [...]

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Nickelodeon Aims to Teach Preschoolers Math

January 12, 2010

“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 [...]

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Technology Review: The Year in Robotics

January 9, 2010

In the past year, researchers have developed new robots to tackle a variety of tasks: helping with medical rehabilitation, aiding military maneuvers, mimicking social skills, and grasping the unknown. via Technology Review: The Year in Robotics.

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