Welcome to 2010 everyone! Thanks for making 2009 a great year for GoRobotics.net. We saw a 40% increase in visits from 2008, and more than doubled the number of subscribers to our RSS feed.  Below are the top news posts from 2009, along with some perennial favorites on the site.

2010 is a special year for us, as it marks the TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY of GoRobotics.net! Whooohooo! I’m super excited about this (and a little shocked). In April of 2000 I first bought the domain name ‘robotshop.com/gorobotics’ and moved the site there. Previously, it has been running under the name “robot central” on a free hosting provider. Time sure have changed!

To celebrate this HUGE milestone, we’ll be doing a series of giveaways leading up to April and the big finale! Not sure what’s it’s going to be yet … but it’s gonna be good. I’ll be posting the upcoming and current contests on the Ten Years of GoRobotics page.

Anyway, back to 2009. Here are our top posts from 2009 (in reverse order):

8. Fantastic Retro Robo-Art

7. Boeing’s Truck Mounted Laser Weapon Destroys Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

6. The Rise and Fall of Pleo, a Fairwell Lecture by John Sosoka, Former CTO of Ugobe

5. Battlestar Galactica Returns to Sing Its Final Song

4. Cornell Wins the 12th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition

3. Upcoming Biomass Powered Military Robot

2. US President Defending Against Robot Apocalypse

1. 10 Years of LEGO Mindstorms – Limited Edition Black NXT

and of course our perennail favorite articles:

• How to Crimp Connectors

• How to Build a Simple Robot – Beetle Robot

So, once again a HUGE THANKS to all of the faithful readers. I’m forever in your debt and I look forward to 2010 and the future!