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Now here’s an industrial robot we can all enjoy. Who doesn’t like taiko?
On July 21, a team of four MOTOMAN machines — two dual-armed MOTOMAN-DIA10 robots and two MOTOMAN-HP3 welding robots — gave a special taiko performance at the nearly 400-year-old Kokura Gion Daiko Festival in Kitakyushu, which is famous for its traditional drumming […]

 

Not to be outdone by the Wii Bowler, GarageGeeks brings us Guitar Heronoid: The Guitar Hero playing Android.
Guitar Hero strikes me as a considerably more difficult game to teach to a robot. Instead of mastering a single physical movement (something robots are very good at), an intentionally distracting visual field must be analyzed […]

 

What happens when you combine a Lego NXT robot with a Wii controller? WiigoBot the perfect bowler, of course.