Teleconferencing can be an impersonal affair — all your subordinates just staring at a laptop screen, and on the screen is a window, and in the window is a smaller screen, and in that smaller screen is your face. So lifelike! You could also do the evil overlord thing where you’re projected all big on the wall (asking for one million dollars). But the approach RoboDynamics wants to popularize is what they call “telepresence,” and it necessitates inhabiting a robotic body in the room. Now, let’s be honest: the notion is a little more grand than the execution. TiLR looks like a riveter robot with a screen for a head, but the idea is sound; you can scoot around, tilt and pan its camera, and talk face to face with people in the remote environment.
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Here’s a great one for you Arduino-geeks, a robot with Arduino controls and CMUCam for sight.
This is my first CMUcam + Arduino version, the code for which will be uploaded soon. As you can see below, it is a bit of a rush-job, caused by the blowing-up of my proper h-bridge, and its replacement with a single power-transistor (click for big version).
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Robot Underwear for Your Lover!
Now is your chance to geekify your lover with these Robot underwear. Of course, don’t get too corny otherwise you might not get some. Robots thong would look kinda cool… (imagine a hot woman wearing it)
Allover screen printed robots, hearts, and lightening bolts. Linked strings at waist. Cotton liner. 95% cotton/5% spandex. Machine wash. Imported.
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Check out this cool Ganzbot that can talk. The Ganzbot can also read Twitter posts and show emotion.
This funny little robot has eyes, eyebrows and a mouth and will verbally read your latest Twitter status to you. It uses an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and receives the latest Twitter status information over USB from a host computer.
For those who don’t know, Twitter is a micro blogging tool where users announce what they’re doing with 140 characters or less. You can also send the robot something to say directly from the command line with a few Ganzbot moods to choose from.
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