Adam Savage's Spot Robot Rickshaw Carriage!

In the latest from Adam Savage’s Tested - Adam's first project with Boston Dynamics' Spot robot gives it a novel purpose: pulling a custom-built carriage with Adam as its passenger! Watch Adam give Spot some Victorian flair and the interesting problems that arise in marrying cutting-edge robot technology with vintage transport.

Sonic

James Bruton does it again with his Sonic the Hedgehog Balancing Robot. This guy is an absolute genius! The project is especially fun today, because we just saw the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Enjoy!







Update: Just in, an update from James - Sonic now moving to a more advanced test platform. Cool!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Some BlocklyProp fun for this Friday...

Code for the S3 (#131400) is here - http://blockly.parallax.com/blockly/projectlink?id=131400&key=b0c59b3f-7547-4e44-8a53-0fe302d2fb33

Code for the Activity Board WX (#131405) is here - http://blockly.parallax.com/blockly/projectlink?id=131405&key=a005b069-c2bd-44bc-b436-52e870e870db

Both are public. The terminal output is shown below.

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day, Friday, and Great President's Day Weekend.

Your Valentine,

Whit+

More National Love Your Robot Day

More National Love Your Robot Day, from my pal, Eric Ostendorff, aka erco...

Love Your Robot!

February 7, each year, is National Love Your Robot Day! Hypable has a great article from 2013 - Our 10 Favorite Robots in Film and on TV. Click here. What do you think is missing?  How about this classic...

In honor of National Love Your Robot Day, 2020, I have programmed my Parallax S3 Robot (in Spin, using Phil Pilgrim's excellent talk_v2 object) to say, "I Love Robots."

And just to be sure you know what brand of Robots I prefer, I have also programmed my S3 to say, "I Love Parallax Robots."

Thanks to my friends at Parallax, Inc., for all they do to make these fun projects possible - with the best hardware, coding methods, educational resources, and tech support around! 

Have a great National Love Your Robot Day, and a great weekend!

Spy In The Wild - BBC

Thanks to Parallax Forums pal, Nikos Giannakopoulos, for sharing this video on Facebook of a robot spy gorilla infiltrating a wild gorilla troop. Amazing! The Spy in The Wild series uses different "spy animals" to capture intimate interactions in nature with all sorts of animals. Check it out at #BBCSpyInTheWild

Super Bowling?

In anticipation of tomorrow - maybe not what you expected, but this came out of some Facebooking with a friend...

First up, this is computer-generated (not real) but pretty fun...

This one is the real deal. Robots are all about repeatability - in this case, that may be a disadvantage.