Thursday, March 12, 2009

Beautiful Robots

Here is a stunning slideshow of some of the world's best-known robots. Some of my favorites are Toyota's musical humanoids (#14), Kiva's pod carriers (#25), and welding stations (#29). Of course, very relevant to my work are the pictures of the DaVinci surgical system (#3 and #12). Big Dog (#19) is always fun to look at, especially in video. NASA's robots are neat too; one thing that is pretty amazing is the scale - the ATHLETE platforms (#10), although they don't look it, are gigantic, similar to the Mars Science Lab (#32) if I remember correctly.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/robots.html
A few other nice pictures of robots are at:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/oscars-wall-e-robots/photo6.html

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