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Keepon dancing to Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah”
The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the Spoon song “Don’t You Evah.” Directed by Jeff Nichols and produced by WIRED Magazine. See: http://beatbots.org and http://spoontheband.com License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 Duration : 0:4:6
Kraftwerk – The Robots
Classic 1977, Kraftwerk videoclip of The Robots (Kraftwerk, the pioneers of electronic music) Duration : 0:3:40
Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot
By Garnet Hertz (2005) “Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot” is an experimental mechanism that uses a living Madagascan hissing roach atop a modified trackball to control a three-wheeled robot. If the roach moves left, the robot moves left. Infrared sensors also provide navigation feedback to the roach, striving to create a pseudo-intelligent system with the roach…
Battlebot
Warcraft Battle Bots fighting Duration : 0:1:16
Robo – Dance
Studio Project for Year 1 Bachelor of Creative Technologies at Auckland University of Technology. Using Lego NXT Mindstorms, we built and programmed robots to reenact a section from West Side Story complete with set, costumes and lighting. Duration : 0:5:21
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