Robots Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The machine apocalypse can wait; robot busy playing Angry Birds

by Michael Grothaus (May 8th, 2011)

I've got to admit, I've never seen the appeal of Angry Birds. The game just isn't that fun to me. I know a lot of readers disagree with that, and now I know of one robot that would disagree as well. Yes, Finnish company OptoFidelity has created a robot with the sole purpose of playing Angry ...

Mac-based autonomous rovers at MacTech Conference 2010

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 3rd, 2010)

We're here at the MacTech conference, and as everyone checked in and got breakfast there was a demonstration of some clever Mac-based rover robots designed and built by a team at the University of Arizona. The brainchildren of Professor Wolfgang Fink, these robots are designed to be autonomous and ...

WWDC Demo: Zombies, a modern update of Daleks (preview)

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 2nd, 2009)

I can't count the number of hours I spent at the UT Music Library on a Performa or Quadra or Centris (I had a Centris 610 at the time) playing Daleks. Strangely addicting but incredibly simple, the game mechanic has been repeated often in the casual game universe, and Daleks was essentially a rip ...

Lego Robots now Mac-friendly

by C.K. Sample, III (Jan 6th, 2006)

Just when I thought there wasn't any new hobby that could arise and completely eat up any paltry free time I might have, they make LEGO robots Mac-friendly: "The heart of the new system is the NXT brick, an autonomous 32-bit LEGO microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC, or for the ...

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