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Walking robots battle at RoboGames 2010

Mark Frauenfelder at 3:14 pm Tue, Apr 27, 2010

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Alex Ward of Trossen Robotics sent me this great video of fighting crawlers and walkers from the Mech Warfare competition at RoboGames 2010. He said: "It was a huge hit this year especially with Fon Davis of ILM and Grant Imahara of Mythbusters helping out. Fon and his company did all the incredibly detailed arena work, all the way down to the miniature phone booths and parking meters."

I can't wait until someone enters a PETMAN into the competition:


RoboGames 2010: Mech Warfare

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • Tony Moore

    hot damn! that looks like a good time!

    next step, wall the city/arena in bulletproof lexan, outfit the robots with light guage steel plating and arm them with .22 cal firepower, and fight to the finish! This kinda kaiju battle is just begging to be brought into Survival Research Labs territory.

  • Anonymous

    I know that cable attaching to PETMAN isn’t load-bearing, but it would make me run for the nearest lake twice as fast to see that thing going cable-commando. That’s the best robowalking I’ve ever seen!

  • Bucket

    Dammit, I really don’t need another hobby.

    Well, this would actually pretty much be most of my hobbies all rolled into one.

  • ninjasuperspy

    Oh man! I’ve got to build a Quad or Hexa-podal robot and get in on that. Those 180-BB “grenade” launchers are cheating right?

    http://www.airsplat.com/Items/AC-UPE-DF-ACC01.htm

    Though I imagine one shot of that would flip the average four-legged ‘mech right over.

  • Anonymous

    Everybody’s disco dancing. We are having very good time. Robot Dancing!?!

    http://www.frequency.com/video/aldebaran/119281

  • Anonymous

    Love the climbing shoes on the Petman