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Interview with AnyBots’ CEO Dr. Trevor Blackwell

by John P.

AnyBots is a company that is building an innovative remote controlled robot which serves as a personal avatar. Yes, that’s right, just like the movie Avatar an operator remote controls this robot and it allows you to virtually be present in another location.

The applications for this technology are endless, but imagine a large company with multiple locations having a few AnyBots that people can “check out” and use to attend meetings with colleagues. The theory is that this is more inviting than simple video conferencing.
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10 of the Coolest Machines You Could Ever Hope to Ride

December 4, 2008

I was entertaining myself for hours this evening while perusing all of the crazy ways man has invented to move himself from point A to point B. After we mastered the most efficient methodology, apparently we turned our attention and energy towards also creating the most inefficient methods possible. Why would we do this? Well, [...]

The World’s Coolest Automated Ball Launcher for Dogs

May 10, 2008

Ok. I saw like 5 seconds of this this clip on Cali and Neal’s GeekBrief.TV and then did a YouTube search to find the original video. From the description: I built the ball machine because I thought my dog Jerry, might like it and that it would be something fun for me to build. So [...]

I’m in the GigaPan Beta!

January 29, 2008

Drunken Robot Sumo Wrestler Video Game

July 8, 2007
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I happened to catch a little blurb on G-4 TV about a tiny free video game called Sumotori Dreams and decided to check it out. I’m really glad I did because it is highly amusing and I played it for about 30 minutes even though I’m not a big fan of video games. The concept [...]

MIT’s Friendly Robotic Weatherman

April 7, 2007

I know my buddy Hrafn over at Inkblot Earth is going to get a kick out of this (he’s an AI expert)… I just got finished getting the local weather update from MIT’s artificial intelligence weather forecaster, Jupiter. All you do is give Jupiter a call on your phone and ask him for the forecast. [...]

Pleo the Baby Robot Dinosaur

November 10, 2006

Most people have probably seen those little white dinosaur robots you can get at Target, and some people may have seen Sony’s Aibo pet dog, but now there is a robo-pet that eclipses them all… Pleo is a one-week old infant Camarasaurus from the Jurassic period. According to the marketing material, Pleo is an authentic [...]

Self Parking Cars

September 4, 2006

These are some of the first videos of intelligent parking systems in high end luxury cars. Now personally, being the master parker I am, I wouldn’t want to use them. But I must say it’s fascinating to watch the robots take over our world. :-)

Robots to Take Over World in 2020

August 31, 2006

When I was about 13 my dad brought home my first computer, a TI-99/4a. I remember programming it to run a BASIC program called “Mr. Bojangles” which created a little dancing stick figure. At the time I bet my pop looked at that and thought, “Is this what I wasted my money on?” Little did [...]

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