Adkins Family Blog » robotics http://adkinsgroup.org/blog Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:00:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Big Dog Robot http://adkinsgroup.org/blog/2008/03/20/big-dog-robot/ http://adkinsgroup.org/blog/2008/03/20/big-dog-robot/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:45:51 +0000 Brian http://lojic.com/blog/2008/03/20/big-dog-robot/ Very impressive balance and mobility. A robot from Boston Dynamics.

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]]> http://adkinsgroup.org/blog/2007/06/19/spider-car/feed/ 2 anybots.com http://adkinsgroup.org/blog/2007/04/22/anybotscom/ http://adkinsgroup.org/blog/2007/04/22/anybotscom/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:35:15 +0000 Brian http://lojic.com/blog/?p=27 Ya gotta love robots :) Trevor Blackwell, the founder and CEO of anybots, worked with Paul Graham on Viaweb which was a pioneering ASP using Lisp which eventually sold to Yahoo! for a nice sum and became Yahoo! Store. Very sharp guy, but I’m quite skeptical that a walking humanoid robot (technically a remotely operated machine since it won’t be autonomous) will be profitable. I hope it is.

Anybots announces the world’s first dynamically balancing walking humanoid robot.

Go to anybots.com for more info.

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