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Curiosity’s Martian anniversary selfie is a sign of the times
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
26 Jun 2014
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year - 687 Earth days - spent exploring the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Robots, selfies and remote connectedne...
Back on Earth, Part 3
Jim Haas
16 Apr 2014
Special thanks again to "NateFan", whose comment inspired today's comic.
I hope the characters referenced from NASA are good sports, I figured they'd crack up over Nate's "findings" regarding facia...
Back on Earth, Part 2
Jim Haas
07 Mar 2014
In the comments below, tell me, what questions would researchers want answered about Nate's experiences on Mars? I'll select the best and make comics out of them (showing how Nate answers) in the next...
Back on Earth
Jim Haas
28 Feb 2014
I guess all those other Mars rovers just landed in the wrong spot? I had this idea yesterday to try something a little different. In the comments below, tell me, what questions would researchers want ...
Mission to Mars, Part 7
Jim Haas
17 Feb 2014
Stay tuned next week for the exciting conclusion of Nate's "mission to Mars" experience. As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Mission to Mars, Part 6
Jim Haas
07 Feb 2014
I want to thank Robonaut for being a great sport and being willing to appear in this week's comic! When I got done with last week's comic, for fun I sent a tweet to Robonaut asking him to join Nate ...
Mission to Mars, Part 5
Jim Haas
31 Jan 2014
We all know that the first thing we'd want to do on a planet with low gravity is a Michael Jordon dunk.
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Mission to Mars, Part 4
Jim Haas
24 Jan 2014
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Mission to Mars, Part 3
Jim Haas
17 Jan 2014
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Mission to Mars
Jim Haas
03 Jan 2014
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break! As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1
Mike Hamer
23 Dec 2013
Aisoy, a spanish robotics startup, is motivated by the goal of building intelligent, personal, "social" robots, which make our lives easier and funnier. Their robot, the Aisoy1, is their first step to...
Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel
20 Dec 2013
2022 update: A new, one-wheeled version of the Cubli has been developed. The one-wheel Cubli is a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel, as it i...
Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)
Mark Stephen Meadows
20 Nov 2013
This article returns to the thread of the last few months by looking at how robots can measure our emotions and body language.
My aunt, a Tennessee tobacco grower, used to remind me that God gave m...
Nate the Robot RH.13 – Firewalls: Saving Robot Marriages!
Jim Haas
13 Sep 2013
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Nate the Robot RH.12 – Well Played, Internet
Jim Haas
27 Aug 2013
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Orbotix introduces Sphero 2.0
John Payne
15 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/5Bg88VkWGOQ
There's not much more about Sphero 2.0 on the Orbotix website other than this two-minute video, but Evan Ackerman of Automaton has a little more information. The followi...
SparkFun Redbot
John Payne
09 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/AGVsV4abajo
The ready-made platform (kit) options just keep getting better. Here SparkFun shows off its new Redbot kit, which includes everything you need to put together a basic mo...
Making a WALL-E robot
John Payne
07 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/7oVSaUWeKt0
We take you now to sunny, southern California, where a small group of enthusiasts has constructed a very realistic, Arduino-based replica of Pixar's WALL-E, entirely fro...
In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)
Mark Stephen Meadows
07 Aug 2013
This article discusses how body language is a part of natural language, personality, and NLP design. The article covers various methods for approaching this problem and makes recommendations for the r...
Nate the Robot RH.11 – High “REWARD”
Jim Haas
26 Jul 2013
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
DARPA unveils new humanoid robot
Jim Haas
12 Jul 2013
DARPA unveiled their new humanoid robot Atlas that will be used as part of their robotics challenge. It can tackle rough terrain and carry human tools.
See on DARPA website....
My robot is smelling my dirty laundry (or, Notes on privacy, PRISM, and home service robotics)
Mark Stephen Meadows
03 Jul 2013
This article considers privacy in robotic systems (such as personal service robotics) as being of greater importance than privacy in telecommunications (such as Internet). We will return to our regula...
“A Paro walks into a club…” (or, Notes on the design of automated body language)
Mark Stephen Meadows
05 Jun 2013
This article discusses personality design and how proper natural language interface design includes body language. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots. It argues that psyc...
Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls
Sabine Hauert
15 May 2013
The Airburr, a light-weight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my PhD lab) at EPFL, was designed to fly in cluttered environments. Unlike most flying robot, which avoid contact a...
The uncanny valet (or, Notes on the design of robot psychology)
Mark Stephen Meadows
04 May 2013
This article outlines the problems of today's phone and online help systems and offers solutions to conversational systems of tomorrow. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots, ...
The Swinging Blind Juggler
Markus Waibel
03 May 2013
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...
Nate the Robot RH.4: Who wants those jobs?
Jim Haas
15 Apr 2013
This post is part of Robohub's Jobs Focus.
"People hate me because they say robots steal jobs."
"What jobs?"
"Low paid, extremely dangerous, repetitive, physically demanding..."
*boggle*
"I kno...
AFK (or, Robotic free speech, and what you can do to help)
Mark Stephen Meadows
03 Apr 2013
This article looks at how the robotics industry of today is following in the footsteps of the personal computer industry of yesterday, and why Natural Language Processing, like the Graphical User Inte...
