British bots compete for attention
posted Aug 18th 2008 3:30pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: news, robots hacks
The British military held a competition to find the newest batch of robotic surveillance drones. The article mentions that they compete in a mockup village, but sadly we don’t get to see any of the action. We strongly recommend watching the video so you can see some of the robots. There is an interesting helicopter concept that has angled props for better stability and lateral motion, but more importantly you get to see the little guy pictured above. He very well could be Wall-E’s great grandfather. Though his constant buzzing around during the interviews is slightly annoying, his little camera mount looking all around is instantly endearing. If he doesn’t win this contest, he may have a shot at the [crabfu] challenge.
[via Engadget]
The Truck in the picture is infact a Traxxas Revo with a custom rollcage and camera mounted on the top with some extra servos…
Posted at 7:32 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by Nathan