Category: robot toy
The Cubelets arrived!
Exciting times in modular robotics land! A former coworker of mine started a company aptly named “Modular Robotics” who, over the past years, developed a modular robotic toy construction kit named Cubelets. After spending years finding out how hard developing a hardware product is, they finally shipped the first batch of 100 beta release kits.…
LetsTalkRobots Ep005 Awesome Robot Toy
Andrew is enthused about Jamie’s sneak peek of his robot toy. Name it the AwesomeBot, Jamie! Duration : 0:3:3
Choreographing an Army of Elmo Robots
Adrianne Wortzel first saw Tickle-Me-Elmo-TMX during her residency in the Artificial Intelligence Lab in Zurich, Switzerland, and noticed something interesting about the robotic toy. It wasn’t long before she amassed an army of them. And what army is complete without synchronized maneuvers… The full piece (just robots): More of Adrianne’s Work: http://www.adriannewortzel.com Duration : 0:4:40
Sesame Street: Creepy toys, robots, and satellites
The name says it all: creepy mechanical wind-up toys (the EYES!), robots with alphabet blocks, and satellites spinning around planets from vintage Sesame Street. All to stick-in-your-head music. I think this clip is why I grew up with a lifelong fear of robots. EDIT: This video must have been made sometime between 1981 (when the…