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May 27, 2004

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Hinokio, the robot

Is this the new Pinocchio?
The Japanese movie Hinokio will be released in early 2005. The director, Takahiko Akiyama, was involved in such films as 1996's science-fiction movie "Acri'' and the 2001 "Final Fantasy: the movie".

In this latest movie, the main character, a boy who refuses to go to school after his mother dies, gradually learns to reconnect with people again with the help of Hinokio, a remote-control robot.

Hinoki is the name of the wood some parts of the robot are made of. Hmm... I like the easy parallel with Pinocchio.

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April 19, 2004

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Octopus, a climbing robot

[ASL-EPFL] The function of a mobile robot is to move from place to place autonomously, i.e. without human intervention. Building mobile robots able to deal autonomously with obstacles in rough terrain is a very complex task because the nature of the terrain isn�t known in advance and may change in time. The role of the path planner is to determine a trajectory in order to reach the destination while avoiding obstacles and without getting stuck. A true autonomous mobile off-road robot has to be able to evaluate its own ability to cross over the obstacles it may encounter: Octopus.

More climbing robots here. And I love this Rope Climbing Robot.

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February 10, 2004

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robotic spray painting machine

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[k10k] John Weir pointed us to this ultra cool 'robotic spray painting machine' called Hektor, made by mysterious Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke.

Update= I first lifted this link from K10K more than 6 months ago. I decided to post it to my blog in October 03. In December 03, I bumped it to the top of my blog again, and sent the link to Gizmodo. Gizmodo published the link at the end of January 04. And suddenly the link was everywhere, it has since been re-published by a number of site; including Slashdot. But it was a repost... It had been published in July 03.
It was good to see that links that sometimes don't make it to the big content outlet on the first try, can find their way there a few months later. It was also an experiment that illustrates some of the points I raise in this post about archive digging and posts' updates.

I also allowed for many related links to surface:
R.O.G.A.D. (AKA Graffiti Bot) (Is this thing for real?)
GraffitiWriter

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December 9, 2003

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robots expo

My pics & details from the International Robots exhibition in Tokyo 2 weeks ago got some press around the web. Thanks for spreading the joint grease.
Robots.net
Gizmodo.com
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
BoingBoing.net
Roboticspot.com

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August 22, 2003

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Robot wrestling

my dream studies/job: invention & fun with radio-controlled robots. Don't miss the multiple videos over 6 pages and the 2 other websites linked to with more videos to discover.

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August 8, 2003

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