Danish researcher Hautop Lund has created a shape shifting robot that can take 100 different forms. The ATRON is made up of several identical, self powered links that communicate with each other to slither, walk or roll. I bet it can also crawl, which is what my skin is doing right now thinking about the possible uses of this thing. via Gizmodo
Hayes Solos Raffle and Amanda J. Parkes are the creators of Topobo, a building kit with kinetic memory. That means the creations remember and playback the way you push and pull them. Build a creature, teach it how to walk, it walks. Taking the ideas behind Legos and Capsela to a new level, Topobo is fun and subversively educational! Currently a project in Hiroshi Ishii's …
Participants have been announced for the third annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. Work from the following artists will be included: Leonel Moura; William Tremblay; Jonah Brucker-Cohen (piece pictured here); Alex Baker, LEMUR; Ralf Schreiber; franz alken; Sean Salmon, James Tichenor, Vasil Daskalopoulos, and Phillip Stanley-Marbell; Dan Paluska; Daniel C. Howe; Aaron Arendt; Bruce Shapiro; …
