May 12, 2007

Keepon Interaction Robot

Alan Parekh May 12, 2007 19

Have a look at the Keepon Interaction Robot , Hideki Kozima developed it and Marek Michalowski gave it intelligence. It looks simple at first until you realize that it has two color cameras, a microphone and an amazing range of motion. Video after the jump. “Keepon has a yellow snowman-like body. The upper part (the “head”) has two eyes, each of which is a color CCD camera with a wide-angle

Contests

Search Contest

Alan Parekh May 12, 2007 13

Congratulations to Peter and Colin who won prizes last weekend. We are doing something a bit different this weekend. The item above is an opto-isolator, one of the 2007 Cornell University ECE 476 Microcontroller Design used it. The challenge this week is to find the project that used it. 🙂 The prize is a laser pointer pen with a built in 256MB USB drive. This contest will run for this