Category: robot

  • STEM: A Short Video Showing How One Family Lived with the Sony Aibo Robot Dog for a Week

    STEM: A Short Video Showing How One Family Lived with the Sony Aibo Robot Dog for a Week

    The folks at CNET spent some time living with the Sony Aibo Robot Dog. How did it all work out? Watch this video to find out. Go here for a lot more information on Aibo. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) students can learn how to design robots that can help people feel wanted, loved,…

  • Students at Stanford University Designed and Built “Doggo” a Four-Legged Robot

    Students at Stanford University Designed and Built “Doggo” a Four-Legged Robot

    Check out this video on “Doggo” a four-legged robot built by STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) students at Stanford University. Go here to learn a lot more about the Doggo project including how YOU can get involved in this open source project. Geek On!

  • Amazon Scout Autonomous Delivery Robot

    Amazon Scout Autonomous Delivery Robot

    Scanning the news a few days ago, I spotted an article showing a picture of the Amazon Scout autonomous delivery robot. As always, in this day and age, I just read the headline and moved on to the next headline. But today, I went back to that article and looked closer. Hey….this is interesting stuff…

  • Beam: Robotic Video Conferencing

    Beam: Robotic Video Conferencing

    I started seeing robotic video conferencing devices appear around 2010. I wrote a few blogs on the HeadThere Giraffe, AnyBots, and VGo  (see my blog entries here) and even watched an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” which featured Sheldon using a “nice virtual presence device” to meet the Woz. Despite the fast early start for…

  • VGo Robotic Video Conferencing

      Here is another robotic video conferencing device.  VGo. In the video they call it: “Robotic Telepresence”…how errrr, interesting.  Gotta love those Marketing folks…gettin’ the buzz words down.  🙂 I will try to get the VGo at AltamontCowork to test (the others (Giraffe, and AnyBots, have failed to remain in touch or get me a…

  • “The Big Bang Theory” Videoconferencing

    If you watched the “The Big Bang Theory” last night you saw a really cool application for videoconferencing.  Do a search on “HeadThere Giraffe” (I’m serious) in this blog to see a very similar (and nicer) implementation (I copied the picture above). I was watching the show but was called away (by Lori!) to do…

  • Anybots Robotic Videoconferencing

    I wrote a blog entry a couple of years ago on a robot that could do videoconferencing.  See this link.  I never heard anything more… Here is newer product (Anybots) that is, I believe, getting close to release. Just thought you might like it…..I still think the idea is cool. Imagine a child sick at…

  • HeadThere Giraffe

    YeOldeTechy says: “This is COOL!” Check out this new product that YeOldeTechy hopes he will be able to get his hands on to evaluate for this blog. Really quickly here is what the HeadThere Giraffe is: 1. It is a Videoconferencing System that works over the Internet. 2. It is a movable robot that allows…