One of the great things about the Maker Movement is that people express their creativity, no matter how mainstream or bizarre, with complete freedom of expression and using an unlimited palette of ...
The original Meccano concept was extremely innovative and exciting, at least when it was first introduced in 1901. It enabled users in hacking together concept prototypes of mechanical structures, ...
Mark Galt, a well known and respected Bay Area creator of kinetic art and automata, displayed several of his works at the Bay Area Maker Faire held in San Mateo last weekend. One of his more recent...
As of May 2015, the Bay Area Maker Faire, and the maker movement in general, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Along with massive growth, publicity, and world wide attention, the movement has go...
When we think of San Francisco a few things immediately come to mind. Hilly, environment conscious, hilly, hilly, and hilly. That’s why it was no surprise to run into Nathan Jauvtis, the founder an...
Remember building those simple wooden paddle boats powered by rubber bands as a kid? We do, and we remember what a blast it was to construct, test, and then race them against our friends.
Over the past decade, the Maker Movement has spread across the globe and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down, even for an instant. Maker Faire events are currently staged world wide, with 131 ta...
Casey Neistat, one of the most popular, successful, and prolific Vloggers around, recently touted the CANON G7X camera as his absolute favorite for Vlogging. This was no trivial claim given that Ca...
People seriously interested in getting involved with personal drones would be well advised to bring money. To get reasonable performance, quality photos and video, and an easy to use interface, it’...
At first glance they might be confused with toys or some mad scientist’s robot creation, but the multi-legged, insect-like robots developed by young students participating the the Club WAD robotics...
On March 11, 2011 Japan was literally rocked by a massive earthquake and tsunami that resulted in thousands of lives lost, homes and businesses destroyed, and a crippling of Japan’s nuclear power i...
Yoshihiro Shibata’s Thunderbolt humanoid robot is in a class almost by itself. The robots hip/leg design was based on an original concept developed by Koichi Yoshimura, one of the early ROBO-ONE ch...
Story: http://tinyurl.com/layered-x One of the most surprising robots that appeared at the 9th Robo-One competition held here in Tokyo on March 18-19th, 2006, was LAYERED-X developed by Asurada. It...
Hello Kitty never says a word – she doesn't even have a mouth. But, that wouldn't work for a Hello Kitty robot that's designed to do a lot of things, including sing songs.
Story: http://tinyurl.com/yc7l47j Both Pacman (the video game) and the micromouse contest started just over 25 years ago, and share the hearts and spirits of at least two generations of engineers....
Kondo Robot announced a new, low cost, hexapod robot design with surprising flexibility, performance, and customizability. The robots unique leg design incorporates springs and linkages only requir...
Featured on http://www.robots-dreams.com - After three days of intense RoboGames 2011 action, the 3:3 robot soccer competition came down to the US vs. Japan in the match to determine who would go h...
ROBO-ONE bouts are gradually becoming more realistic and human like. These examples were captured during ROBO-ONE 12 (September 2007) in Takamatsu, Japan. For more information, visit Robots Dreams...
The 10th ROBO-ONE robot competition took place September 16/17th in Nagai, Japan. The final match to determine the championship was between Ivre and King Kizer. For more information visit Robots Dr...
This video has proven so popular that we decided to go back and improve on the editing. Roboraptor the robot takes on Austin the Dog. The interaction between the robot and Austin is a good demonstr...
Story: http://tinyurl.com/king-kizer During the 9th Robo-One competition held March 18, 2006, a robot named King Kizer, developed by the Maru Family from Osaka, demonstrated its ability to jump rop...
The NAO humanoid robot designed by Aldebaran Robotics in France recently took its first steps and started walking. For more information, visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com.
Yoshihiro Shibata’s Thunderbolt humanoid robot is in a class almost by itself. The robots hip/leg design was based on an original concept developed by Koichi Yoshimura, one of the early ROBO-ONE ch...
Most humanoid designers try to model their robot’s body on the human example. It’s a good place to start, but they quickly run into limitations because the number of joints they can incorporate int...
ROBO-ONE was originally conceived as “Humanoid Robot Entertainment” with the unstated goal of stimulating a whole generation of Japanese, and international, developers to get involved in the humano...
The primary ROBO-ONE competitions, ROBO-ONE and ROBO-ONE Light, are held every six months, usually in February and September. At least one set of competitions is held in Tokyo with the other set oc...
While the basic concept underlying the ROBO-ONE initiative is to promote humanoid robot entertainment along with education. over the years many competitors have tried to design robots that take adv...
Everyone knows how crazy the Japanese are about humanoid robots, but it's hard to really appreciate how extreme the mania is unless you can go behind the scenes and experience it first hand.
During the ROBO-ONE Light humanoid robot competition held March, 2015 in Atsugi, Japan, Sugiura demonstrated a transformable doggie robot he created using the ROBOTIS PLAY-600 educational robot sys...
During a break at the Robot Pro Wrestling event, some of the ROBO-ONE champion robot builders asked Nao Maru for a demonstration of King Keyser's flying kick move.
King Kizer latest combat technique is a surprising drop kick where the robot suddenly jumps into the air and kicks forward with both feet to try and topple...
Frosty has to be one of the fastest humanoid robots competing regularly in ROBO-ONE. Unfortunately he can sometimes be too fast for his own good. In some ...
Kenji Ishida's transforming Brave Robot includes a wireless video camera designed into the body so that it always faces forward, even when the robot is in car form, humanoid form, or transforming.