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Hobbyist One-Ups Sandia Labs
An anonymous reader writes "A robotics hobbyist has created what he claims is the world's smallest autonomous robot. The robot is half the volume of the robots produced by Sandia National Labs in 2001, moves quite a bit faster, and was made using techniques and supplies accessible to anyone." While Sandia Labs has had some time to improve on their original designs, it's still pretty cool to see what one can do at home as well.
I for one would like to welcome our new minute robotic overlords!
I guess he's just an outside the box kinda guy.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
I just can't imagine what people that take that claim as a challenge will call the next four microbots. Well, at least it keeps a simple naming scheme. :wq)
I'd like to see Emacs, the microbot, though... It makes toast, does taxes and raises your children, but unfortunately it has the size and weight of a phone book, draws a kilowatt of power and the wheels don't quite reach the ground.
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In a fair world, refrigerators would make electricity.
It could be an alternative to pliers for the removal of that stick you got stuck up there...
Pshaw.
I wish that thing was bigger so I could turn it into something useful like a vacuum cleaner.
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This thing 'handles' stairs just fine.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I shrunk the Roomba
What, you didn't see the can of Pabst Blue Robot on the table?
Cuteness... is an extremely underrated feature of any robotics project. If they could just up the cuteness factor we could be seeing robots all over the place right now. Why be hatin' the cutie?
Perhaps it's prime directive is to throw itself off a table at any opportunity. He should call it a Suicidebot. I personally bow to anyone who's a robotics hobbiest and drinks Pabst.
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My dear Frodo. Hobbyists really are amazing creatures
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You never had a small child, specificall a boy.
1.5 remove the robot from the child nose or ear, say no sternly.
1.6 remove the robot from the child's ear or nose (whichever was the opposite of the first and say no again)
1.7 Now remove it from their mouth.
Boys like to shove crap up their nose and in their ears for some reason.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Yeah, time is a bitch..
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