It had to happen – Sustainable Robot Design

If you see my recent article over at .NET magazine on the sustainable web, you’ll see that I feel that sustainability is something that is ignored in the tech world, often in favor of magical thinking about the power of the goddess Techna to rescue us. Considering that sustainability is big in graphic design, industrial

Real Robot Report

In contrast to the last, post, here’s a story about experiments with swimming robots (you’ll need to translate the page) http://www.hyoka.koho.titech.ac.jp/eprd/recently/research/research.php?id=284  

Phony Robot Report

Now, for a perfect example of the “emperor has no clothes” quality of large parts of Japanese robotics. I’m not referring to the more serious work, like that done by Honda on the Asimo , or the HRP series (minus the creepy girl sex-robot). What’s the popular word? Phony Robots. Case in point: this silly