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After being introduced to the highly innovative and ingenious home robots from the iRobot company, the Roomba and Scooba home robot models that will cater to your indoor cleaning needs, now comes RoboMower which, like its present companions in the domestic robots department, is also causing quite a stir with its aim to liberate people from doing the same old boring routine of mowing the lawn. A robot lawn mower, sounds great right? Wait till you hear more about this widely popular robot lawn mo
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The iRobot store is selling their Looj gutter-cleaning robot for $70.  Based on the comments we got on this one, it definitely doesn’t work on all gutters;  but if it works on yours, it could turn the chore of gutter-cleaning into a pleasant and easy experience — certainly well worth the price. Looj Gutter Cleaner [iRobot] Street Pricing [Google] Via Amazon [What’s This?]
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The unmanned lawnmower is nothing new, but we still think there’s something downright iffy about arming a Roomba with sharp metal blades. That said, if you’ve been dying to get in on the action, SmartMow might be worth checking out. Set to hit the stores in Spring ‘09 for $749 (much cheaper than some other robo-mowers), the thing weighs 17 pounds, features three cutting blades, will cut around a sixth of an acre on a single charge (about 2-3 hours), and is auto-docking. As far as knowing where t
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The Situational Awareness Mast (SAM, also known as a Zipper Mast) from Geosystems Inc. is a telescoping linear actuator that has a unique property — it’s stroke length is an order of magnitude greater than its nominal height!  For example, the SAM8 is a 10 lb device with a stroke length (8ft) that is 24 times it’s nominal height (4 inches)!  This can be used to vertically translate a robot’s sensor suite for better visibility while still allowing for a low profile.  Read on for informatio
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Robot Stock News has an interesting post about a new robot company, SmartMow, and their self titled product, a robotic lawnmower. The mower, which is currently available for preorder, will retail for $999 and features lithium batteries, a self-charger and can supposedly mow 1/3 of an acre on a single charge. SmartMow is currently offering this mower for a special price of $749 ($175 reserve price, and the rest when the product delivers in the Spring). The SmartMow requires a perimeter wire to t
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My in-laws came to visit this evening, so most of the morning/ afternoon was spent cleaning and finishing my sewing projects. My special helper, the roomba, kept me going all day.
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Call for Collaborative Christmas Video - Costa Rica here is a sample video on youtube as an invitation to all the costa ricans who can, to send in their videos before december 27th so they can put them together and spread about the collaboration on the 30th, as a christmas and young year’s pass out for the community.you can view a couple dancing costa rican swing in this video of a social presentation: Michael Jacksons’ Ass is Bleeding of the Day img src=”http://www.drunkenstepfather.com/cm
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Where we used to have this: and this: We now have this:We have our coffee table back YAY!(But we need to find a new home for the Roomba.)
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Staten Island Historians Piece Together Genealogy Of Wu-Tang Clan NEW YORK—In what many are calling the most comprehensive study of its kind, Staten Island historians Robert Wilburn and Charles Tinsley have successfully traced the lines of the infamous Wu-Tang Clan all the way back to 1993 A.D. Wilburn explains the difficult-to-follow family tree of Ol’ Dirty Bastard. The monumental undertaking, which is being hailed as a major breakthrough in the field of hip-hop genealogy, used a serie
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Robot Sightings: Heavy Duty Hexapod, Tilden Expounds, Robot Farmhands, and more… What’s going on today in my crazy robot world? 00:04 We’ve seen lots of hexapod robots, but it’s rare to find one to ride (tinyurl.com/heavy-duty-hexapod-robot) plus build instructions. 00:30 Robot farmhands pamper cows - tinyurl.com/farm-robots 01:32 Wired magazine gets down and dirty with one of the Roomba robots: (tinyurl.com/wired-reviews-roomba) 08:02 Robots podcast has a toy episode featuring Mark Ti
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