Robotics Championship of the Americas
(Omaha) Teams from North and South America have been invited to meet in robot-to-robot competition March 19 – March 20th at Omaha’s Salvation Army Kroc Center for the second annual Robotics Championship of the Americas.
Robot Princess and the Seven Dwarfs
EveR-3 (Eve Robot 3) starred in various dramas last year including the government-funded “Dwarfs” which attracted a full house, said Lee Ho-Gil, of the state-run Korea Institute of Industrial Technology. The lifelike EveR-3 is 157 centimeters (five feet, two inches) tall, can communicate in Korean and English, and can express a total of 16 facial expressions—without ever forgetting her lines.
This photo released by the state-run Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH).
The Learning Hexapod
I’ll take 2 please. That’s what Intel said when they saw the video posted on Youtube of this Hexapod bot created by Matt Bunting, a University of Arizona electrical-engineering senior. They quickly got a hold of Matt and asked him to create 2 of his Hexapod creations to help promote their Atom processors. This 14x17x8-inch hexapod uses Intel’s 1.60GHz Atom Z530 and US15W chipset while running the Ubuntu open-source operating system.
