Isn’t this a bit unnecessary? How about just an electric motor?

Posted at 5:40 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by bistromathics

hmm… well, I guess this is a case of “stick with what you know”.

Posted at 5:43 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by bistromathics

@bistro: I bet it’s more prestigious to be pulled around by a robot than to drive around in a souped-up rickshaw. ;)

Posted at 6:00 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by Skyler Orlando

Now THAT is a hack.
Well done!!
I would like to see more of this guy

Posted at 6:08 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by Rick

@bistromathics: It also talks. It’s like Knight Rider for Asia.

Posted at 6:08 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by Eliot Phillips

hehe knight rider

Perhaps I root for the underdog too much but I’d like to see this guy do well. He was quoted as saying, “You can now say that I love my robot more than my own son.”
It must have been painful to see a man pull all his robots from the fire first. I’d like to believe THAT is why his wife was gonna leave but as she puts it she was more concerned about the monetary loss.

All I wanna know is, what did this kid do to deserve these parents?

Posted at 6:15 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by Rick

@eliot
“It’s like Knight Rider for Asia.”
Win.

Posted at 6:15 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by Pilotgeek

Hah cool, I saw this on TV (in UK) a while ago, he made tonnes of the little things, one for his son aswell. All from scrap. Cool!

Posted at 6:20 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by EvilSPaceHamster

im impressed with the vertical walker he made.

Posted at 7:13 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by roosta

@pilotgeek, sort of, it looks to me to be aimed at the wrong ethnic group. though i have not been to asia myself i just imagine there is not spaniards pulling there rickshaws

Posted at 7:33 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by kyle

I just think it’s hilarious that he ended up with a rickshaw robot that looks like a mexican dude.

also, could driving this thing be considering rickrolling?

Posted at 7:39 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by jack

but…he’s got a square…yaknow what – nevermind

Posted at 8:06 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by Rick

agreed with jack. that thing is really funny on many levels. just think about it for a while. that wall walker was great too. seems to use magnets. neat how he rigged 5 crappy rf controllers, likely trashed, to control a complex mechanism. the moral: fancy book learning is not what makes a genius.

Posted at 8:25 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by charlie

He wants to install microwave ovens. Custom kitchen deliveraaaayaaayaaays.

Posted at 11:12 pm on Jan 13th, 2009 by somethink

Hey SAVAD

Take a hike!

Posted at 4:14 am on Jan 14th, 2009 by Rick

Power to the autodidacts!

There’s no better way to understand something than by the “crash and burn” method (he took it a bit too seriously though don’t ya think?)

Let’s just hope he remembers to bring home the bacon and feed those neglected kids of his…”…I love my robots more dearly than my own sons” ???

Posted at 8:26 am on Jan 14th, 2009 by supershwa

“also, could driving this thing be considering rickrolling?”

lolololololololololololol

Posted at 11:22 am on Jan 14th, 2009 by grizball

Ba da da de da dat da da da katamati darmacy..

Posted at 12:54 pm on Jan 15th, 2009 by TheQ

@kyle: “sort of, it looks to me to be aimed at the wrong ethnic group. though i have not been to asia myself i just imagine there is not spaniards pulling there rickshaws”

you’re just jealous you didn’t win.

Posted at 10:37 pm on Jan 16th, 2009 by Pilotgeek

Is it just me, or have there been a suspiciously high number of Chinese farmers building robots, flying machines, etc. as of late?

Posted at 2:21 am on Jan 18th, 2009 by Capissen

It’s funny when you write that out as a function (that’s not a function by definition).

Posted at 7:28 am on Mar 3rd, 2009 by Myles Hardy