Robot Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Found Footage: Robochan gets a 3GS upgrade

by Tim Wasson (Jul 28th, 2009)

Back in May, our own Steven Sande reported on a robot with an iPod touch for a head. At the time, Robochan was pretty limited in capability and could only mimic back taught poses and stumble around drunkenly. A lot has happened in two short months. Robochan has received a brain-transplant ...

Found Footage: Power Mac G4 Cube Transformer Robot

by Steven Sande (May 29th, 2009)

Although the Power Mac G4 Cube is one of the all-time classic cool-looking Macs, wouldn't it be even cooler if your Cube could transform into a robot? TUAW reader W from thinkingbricks.com used a LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit and a Cube body to create a Cube-bot with both autonomous and remote control ...

Found Footage: A robot with an iPod touch for a brain

by Steven Sande (May 18th, 2009)

Thanks to a little Twitter birdie named Guy Kawasaki, we learned about this little humanoid robot (Robochan!) who has an iPod touch as a brain, user interface, and "face". It appears that Robochan might have a slight drinking problem (he falls over when he walks), and we're not quite sure about ...

iPhone iRobot control

by Mat Lu (Jun 23rd, 2008)

A while back we showed an iPhone being used to control some remote control planes through MobileSafari. Now some researchers at the University of South Florida have taken the idea to the next step with a native iPhone application to control an iRobot PackBot. As the above video demonstrates, the ...

ChipWits lives on

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 12th, 2007)

Back in the days when Apple pretty much owned the educational market, the Mac was new and Oregon Trail was the pinnacle of edutainment, there existed a little program called ChipWits. I played on my Laser 128, but there were versions for the Commodore 64 and Macintosh. Now some 20-odd years later ...