http://www.droidbuilders.net Sentient Robot Builders Network Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:37:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More swarmbots http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/06/11/robots-with-a-mind-of-their-own/ Nice video of various animal inspired robots, the last one is not so much animal as it is collective mind inspired. http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/06/11/robots-inspired-by-animals/ http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/05/05/armys-mini-drone-swarm/ Check out this cool and rather funny demonstration of a modular robot reassembling itself upon being kicked by an evil human. http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/05/01/self-assembling-modular-robot/ A BBC News crew went to Germany to try 's Baggers, the robotized, fully automated restaurant in which there's not a single waiter in sight and plates float over your head on steel rails to reach your seat, Futurama-style. And apparently, they loved it. Fully Automated Robo-Restaurant Tested (Verdict: Delicious, Fun, ... http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/04/09/robo-restaurant/ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a "monstrous" two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed. Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts, who ... http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/03/11/dextre-the-space-janitor/ EMMELOORD, Netherlands (Reuters) - Motorists nostalgic for the time they could sit tight while attendants braved windswept garage forecourts to fill their tanks may yet see those heady days return -- compliments of a Dutch robot. Dutch inventors unveiled on Monday a 75,000 euro ($111,100) car-fuelling robot they say is the ... http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/02/06/robot-fills-your-cars-gas-tank/ "The way water striders walk on water was discovered years ago. The insect uses its long legs to help evenly distribute its tiny body weight. The weight is distributed over a large area so that the fragile skin formed by surface tension supports the bug on the water. However, the ... http://www.droidbuilders.net/2007/12/18/water-bouncing-robots/ "There is a quite an interesting human size robot that comes from UAE, REEM-A. It has some interesting skills as dynamic walking (of course), object recognition, voice recognition, self localization and mapping, long battery life and face recognition. Recently, the development team announced that the second prototype, REEM-B, will be ... http://www.droidbuilders.net/2007/12/18/reem-b-yet-another-android/ "A new study from UCLA showed that monkeys, like humans, learn faster by being actively involved in the learning process rather than just having information placed before them, according to a story in ScienceDaily. In the study, two rhesus macaque monkeys learned to put up to 18 photos on an ... http://www.droidbuilders.net/2007/08/03/monkeys-and-humans-learn-the-same-way/