The WELL: pre.vue.139: Anything/Everything Robotic

#29: fluted pan (satyr) Sat 1 Sep 07 15:50

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:50:00 PDT

Here's an interesting exercise...

Enter "green robotics" (with the quotes) into the search field in Google.

Here's the resulting link, for your convenience...

<http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22green+robotics%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>

If you're hoping to find page after page of links to the usage of that phrase in the context of robotic technology potentially being green technology, you'll be disappointed. That point hasn't yet achieved much penetration of the collective consciousness.

The upside is that the potential of "green robotics" is both huge and largely unrecognized, which spells opportunity. [Read entire topic]

#28: John Payne (satyr) Sat 1 Sep 07 15:48

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:48:00 PDT

<scribbled by satyr Sat 1 Sep 07 15:49> [Read entire topic]

#27: fluted pan (satyr) Sat 11 Aug 07 20:28

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:28:00 PDT

Video clip of robot which has been programmed to imitate a traditional Japanese dance, as part of a cultural preservation effort...

<http://staff.aist.go.jp/s.nakaoka/movies/BandaisanHRP-2.mpg>

Almost a sexbot (not what *I* mean by a service robot)...

<http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/oooooh/honey-doll-has-touch-sensors-moans-has-fake-orgasms-288234.php> [Read entire topic]

#26: fluted pan (satyr) Tue 31 Jul 07 05:44

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:44:00 PDT

Here's a couple of especially fine links from http://boingboing.net/ ...

a somewhat arbitrary rating of the top fifty movie robots <http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2133609.ece>

an overview of robotics research at M.I.T. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/magazine/29robots-t.html> [Read entire topic]

#25: fluted pan (satyr) Thu 12 Jul 07 11:20

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:20:00 PDT

Another robopooch...

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/11/robudog-fetches-plays-dead-has-wifi/>

Vaguely humanform robot does useful work...

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/11/yaskawa-electric-puts-robot-on-package-sorting-duty/>

Three-armed handy-bot...

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/> [Read entire topic]

#24: fluted pan (satyr) Mon 9 Jul 07 10:14

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:14:00 PDT

Once again, Engadget's got the story first -- new four-legged commercial robot that looks vaguely like a dog...

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/09/aibo-lives-meet-bj-without-the-sony-bugbear/>

I haven't even been able to locate a website for aXi, the maker of this pooch. [Read entire topic]

#23: progress is progress (satyr) Sun 8 Jul 07 12:00

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:00:00 PDT

Engadget mentions a horticultural robot that does weeding...

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/hortibot-the-autonomous-gps-enabled-weed-eradicator/>

Here's the company's website...

http://www.hortibot.dk/ [Read entire topic]

#22: fluted pan (satyr) Thu 5 Jul 07 08:44

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:44:00 PDT

RoboCup 2007 comes to Atlanta...

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/the-sights-and-sounds-of-robocup-2007/>

Includes these links: <http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/> <http://www.flickr.com/groups/robocup/pool/> <http://youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=RoboCup&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&search_category=0&search=Search&v=> [Read entire topic]

#21: metric buttload of (cjp) Thu 21 Jun 07 09:08

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:08:00 PDT

>> identifying which congresspeople are, in fact, robots themselves

There's some that aren't? [Read entire topic]

#20: whodathunkit! (satyr) Thu 21 Jun 07 07:17

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:17:00 PDT

From http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/congress-calls-for-robot-caucus/

> Congressmen Mike Doyle and Zach Wamp have called for the first robot > caucus to convene in Washington. Spurred into action by the idea that > "the robotics industry is developing in much the same way as the > computer business did 30 years ago", Doyle hopes to promote robot > awareness, work on robot policy, and educate Congress on issues in > robotics to ensure "that our nation remains globally competitive". > Wamp added that he looks forward to the caucus's first order of > business: identifying which congresspeople are, in fact, robots > themselves.

I have one message for that caucus:

While bringing to bear the benefits of robotics, don't miss the oppotunity to improve over current practices - for example in the field of agriculture, where rising petroleum product costs are conspiring with soil depletion to bring production down dramatically a decade or two from now - remembering that robotics is essentially the infusion of technology with a glimmer of intelligence. [Read entire topic]