The Roomba Song and My Brother Daniel The Video Star Every time I see a cool Roomba-related thing (including the Roomba itself) I remember torturing Colin Angle when I was his pledge trainer.  Too bad I didn’t have the foresight to invest in iRobot early on (oh well).  Today, Colin sent around a new song by Mr. Pitiful titled “Brand New Friend” - the Roomba prominently stars in it. I also received a note from my brother Daniel that the new StillSecure web site is up and he stars in it.  Hil
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Sara sends word of live lawnbot video - Betsie the Lawnbott works tirelessy and streams(and twitters) video to the web all the while. Head on over to hang out in the Lawnbott chatroom and watch the grass … err not grow. - Lawnbott Live Is this what we’ll do all the time in the autonomous paradise of the future? Read more | Permalink | Comments | Digg this!
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Using the iPhone to control teams of drones was just the start. Now, a University of South Florida team has figured out how to take over one of the military’s most popular ground robots with Steve Jobs’ favorite gadget. Unlike the University of California, Berkely’s web-based software which guides the unmanned planes, South Florida’s Packbot-controlling program is native to the iPhone. And unlike other projects which use game pads to drive robots, there’s no proxy machine necessary. All that’
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From Gizmodo, via Engadget, to the VoIP Authority blog… This entry highlights the intersection of two of the more exciting areas in technology today (in my view) - mobility and robotics. Apparently a pair of University of South Florida students have teamed up to create a novel iPhone app designed to operate iRobot’s Packbot with full streaming POV video. There is a video clip available at Gizmodo here as well as Engadget here. TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | Greg Galit
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The folks who made the Roomba are now creating a softball-sized military robot that can squeeze under your doorjamb: “During military operations it can be important to gain covert access to denied or hostile space… We believe that a new class of soft, flexible, meso-scale mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their dimensions to perform various tasks will be quite valuable in many missions.” Here are the robo-specs: According to the original proposal fr
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IRobot (the makers of the Roomba robot) announced this week that they have won DARPA’s RFP for a shape-shifting chemical robot, nicknamed ChemBot. According to specs, the robot should be: “soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions; reconstitute size, shape, and functionality after traversal; carry meaningful payloads; and perform tasks.” The iRobot team will include experts from Harvard and MIT, specializing
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12 Metal Storm weapons ready for iRobot Warrior Metal Storm elaborates on its partnership with iRobot for weaponizing the iRobot Warrior robot in this Discovery Channel story. (Another TV followup on warbots would seem in order). According to the story: “The Metal Storm/iRobot robot can be equipped with a variety of weapons, from non-lethal rubber bullets to grenade launchers. As many as 12 different Metal Storm weapons can be put onto the iRobot platform at the same time, said a Metal Stor
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Seaglider video shows off bladder propulsion The Christian Science Monitor has posted a must-read story on iRobot’s latest acquisition, the Seaglider unmanned submarine. After clicking through, check out the video clip to see the bladder propulsion system in action, which allows the Seaglider to spend months at sea without refueling. Truly ingenious stuff. Thx, wealjays! Tags: iRobot, robot, Seaglider
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Robo-chair goes by the book Cnet Asia, CA - 54 minutes ago But if it can be combined with a Roomba, perhaps libraries could install more elevators from the cost savings in janitorial labor.

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