http://www.blinkybug.com/gallery.html

http://robo-one.blogspot.com/

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For those of you knitters out there, here’s a good homemade gift idea for your robot-loving pal/spouse/babysitter/etc. There’s a gallery of the robots at the link in all sorts of poses appropriate to knitted robots. You can have your robot and sock-monkey duke it out. Monkies vs. robots. Ninjas vs. Pirates. Robotic monkies vs. ninja pirates?



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There sure seems to be a lot of talk flying around about Daniel H. Wilson’s book entitled, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion." When you see it both on Digg and Slashdot at the same time, you know there’s a buzz going around.

Wilson’s book is a basic surival manual for anyone who plans on being alive when our robotic overlords eventually take over. And Wilson is certainly one to speak about this topic, as he just earned his Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University and asked several of his collegues about their suggestions for survival in certain scenarios.

"Wilson’s 178-page book is clearly for the humor section; the graphics give it away with pictures of old school video-game robots zapping humans with lasers. It’s riddled with B-movie language about "the nefarious robot mind" and survival tips that are closer to "The Onion" than a science book."

Even more interesting is that the movie rights to the book have already been purchased.

You can check out Dr. Wilson’s blog here. Wired News review his book previously. You can buy the book off of Amazon here (and help support GoRobotics.net in the process!)




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Yesterday I received a preview copy of Robot Magazine’s "premier issue." After having seen it in very rough form during RoboNexus, I have to say that the actual print version is even more impressive. For those of you familiar with RC Driver or Fly RC, Robot Magazine will be from the same publisher, Maplegate Media, and have the same high-quality, thick paper, and rugged construction of the other magazines. Tom Atwood is also the editor of Robot Magazine.

 

The magazine’s purpose is described in the opening comments from the Editor, Tom Atwood. He writes,

 

Robot magazine’s coverage is multi-tiered. We will focus on hobby robots that come ready-to-run and on complete robot kits such as the emerging Robo-One humanoid robots … We will cover homebuilt robot projects, techno hacks and the latest plug & play accessories and gear.

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I will stress that this is unverified, but there are rumblings that iRobot’s initial IPO stock price will be between $21 and $23 USD per share. That makes it’s initial worth around $100 million. Anyone seen the Boston Business Journal article that this website cites?

Update: Yep, I found it.

At that price, the 3.3 million shares iRobot is selling would be worth between $69 million and $75 million, while the million shares more sold by other stakeholders would be valued between $21 million and $23 million.

The stock symbol will be "IRBT." Another story on Reuters.



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