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Wired NextFest

August 28th, 2008

My lab will be going to Wired NextFest at the end of September. There’s a video of Mark now on the website, check it out: http://www.wirednextfest.com. I think it looks pretty cool. I love how they did the lighting on all the shots. Looks like the main light is coming from the left top, a [...]

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CKbot fetches Odwalla

August 25th, 2008

Willow Garage provides us with free Odwalla juice. The drinks are all different flavors of fruits and vegetables. I like the carrot juice one but most people in the company find that one ‘nasty’. Actually, I think I like all the nasty ones. Anyways, we got CKbot to succesfully fetch us some Odwalla juice from [...]

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PR-2

August 9th, 2008

So I’m interning at this robot start up company called Willow Garage. They are in the process of building a 200 lb. lifesize humanoid robot to do the dishes, cook and clean, etc. In other words, a robotic maid (think Rosie from the Jetsons). I suppose it wasn’t designed for Roshambo.

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