Uncanny Valley Authority

From our robots on the interweb feed today:    Simple Bots by Randy Sarafan   Check out Simple Bots at Instructables. Randy Sarafan, author of 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer, presents an array of robots using these guidelines: Easy and quick to build, simple, mobile, autonomous, and eventually able to incorporate more complex controls and/or be assimilated by a more complex system. The results are fascinating and include common household objects such as telephone handsets, paint brushes and small plastic containers. Simple bots typically rely on one or more RC servomotors modified for continuous drive for their mobility along with a pack of AA batteries.          

Help these robots! This story via Boing Boing....

 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/robotics/4343054.html

The Hernandez brothers have produced a comic featuring a robot!

www.newsarama.com/comics/070929-LosBrosHernandezRex.html

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24010/?a=f

New York Times story about unemployed robots in Japan.

singularityhub.com/2009/05/05/robots-take-to-the-stairs-this-is-just-the-beginning-videos/