Miscellaneous

DIY civilization starter kit

Martin Jakubowski started the Global Village Construction Set, which aims to create Open Source plans for building the fifty machines they believe are needed to keep a modern village running.

Can you figure out how to make most these machines work in the vacuum of space, with little or no gravity? We’ll need it for our moon base.

Miscellaneous

Modular robot clusters


Building robots can be a lot of work. One way to reduce the work is to use the same part many times.
These researchers present a snake robot made from identical modular components arranged in a daisy chain.

One could argue these are modular robots working together.

Self-assembling would be nice.

Miscellaneous

Delta Robots & Minecraft

Adept’s Quatro Delta robot has taken all the fun out of iPhone games.  See for yourself:

It takes a picture of the screen, finds the solution, and then hammers out the winning combination of moves as fast as it can.

Our Delta robot has been used like this to type out passwords on an iPhone.