From the same company who made a killing off the Rovio during the December holidays, Wowee has taken the name of this blog and created a product out of it!
Just kidding.
The moniker ‘bugbot’ has been used plenty of times before, I just did not know that the nickname had invented long ago by robotics engineers [...]
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DARPA is at it again. Actually, they’ve been at it for a while. Since about 2006, DARPA has been working on a system called HiMems: Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical System. This research was debuted right here in Tucson Arizona just this past January 2008 at MEMS Conference! The MEMS system is used to control the locomotion [...]
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Incredibly adorable and even more affordable, Hex Bugs can be purchased for a mere $10 at your local neighborhood Radio Shack. Hexbug is a very small, compact, six-legged toy robot: a real robot created purely for amusement. Hexbug has a few simple behavioral features. Once switched on, the hexbug will move forward with a very [...]
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An article posted in the Washington Post in October of 2007 opened with some comments from a person who was attending an anti-war rally in Lafayette Square (Washington DC). She was aghast to see something that appeared to look like a large insect flying overhead; but it looked too mechanical to be real.
What the [...]
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