Why autonomous gliders are the hot new ocean technology, written 1 day ago, This month's edition of Spectrum contains a wonderful article Erico put together about a subject near and dear to my heart: gliders. Gliders are a type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that is driven by a variable buoy...

War of the Robots, written 5 days ago, Since we're getting some tropical weather related to hurricane Gustav, I decided to lay low and work with B9 and Robby the Robot. Something I've always wanted to do was to create a display where they reenact the Season one Lost in Space episode entitled "W...

Adventures in robotics, programming, Legos, and general nerdiness.

FLL assistance at TechBrick.com, written 5 hours ago, From www.techbrick.com:Yesterday (Friday) almost 1000 unique visitors from all over the world downloaded about 6000 documents from TechBrick.com. We received many enouraging comments. Thank you! This week teams all over the world will be meeting ...

The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. I believe we are survival machines; robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. And I'm rooting for the machines.

Sega's Lucky, Humanity's Not, written 1 day ago, While I spent countless summer days playing Super Mario and Donkey Kong Country on my Super Nintendo, some of my contemporaries were entranced by the Genesis. You may wonder why I didn't have a Genesis, despite the awesomeness of Sonic—well, it wasn...

Microsoft© CCR getting you down?, written 3 weeks ago, In my research, which is almost complete, I have come across the first paper that was written regarding the CCR. No doubt changes have been made to it, but it would be a useful read for those who wish to understand it in more depth.Here it is, ...

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Police Robot Approved by Huntington Police Department, written 1 week ago, I am happy to report that our police robot team was very successful in tonight's proposal meeting in seeking approval of the police robot. There are a couple of bells and whistles that was asked for. 1. The ability to raise a...

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Robot intelligence, written 1 week ago,