Homebuilt Walking Robot

November 4th, 2009 by Matthew Bleicher

Meet Giger. This homebuilt robot stands at a very impressive 2 feet tall and can walk around as if he owns whatever room he is in.
Which it might.
Giger is controlled bia Bluetooth and runs on an embedded version of Linux knows as Buildroot.
It also has a moving red eye like a Cylon. So you know [...]

Adept Quattro Incredibly Fast at Packing

November 3rd, 2009 by Matthew Bleicher

Back in the old days, a particular product would come down a conveyor. A person or people would take items off of the conveyor and place it in  a box or other appropriate packaging. This concept was so iconic that it was used in everything from I Love Lucy to Laverne and Shirley.
This image, however, [...]