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…