DIEGO

[jeffbert]

ROBOY is yet to come, but DIEGO is here:

ROBOTICS: UCSD's robot baby Diego-san appears on video for the first time

[AprilSeven]

ewwwwwwww!!!!

And why do I say that? BECAUSE LOOOOK he's supposed to be a baby, but his HEAD is bigger than the adult engineers working with him!!!!

Keep tryin' -- someday you'll be able to build me!

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I saw a live video feed last year (well, almost live any way, it was like watching paint dry most of the time) from a Tokyo shopping mall where they were having this robot marathon for walking robots. Most of them were only a foot or two tall and kept falling over or walking out of the defined course. Most looked like crude 'rock-em-sock-em' robots. This being in Japan I was kinda expecting to see a model Atom going though the course. Boy was I ever disapointed...... I wonder if this contest will be an annual thing, maybe there will be hope for the next running.

[racoonangel]

Kinda creepy looking