http://www.nxtclub.com Lego NXT Robots Blog and Discussion Forum Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:03:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out the MIT DOMO Robot. This metal creature still looks pretty slow and dumb after all these years. But if it is combined with the Honda Asimov and get dressed up a bit, I bet the combo bot will be pretty convincing humanoid. Whole bunch of Youtube videos available at: http://people.csail.mit.edu/edsinger/domo_video_youtube.htm?tr=y&auid=2605448 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk-QCirulsE[/youtube] http://www.nxtclub.com/2007/04/26/mit-domo-robot/ You will love this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsXlTKaFq0&NR http://www.nxtclub.com/2007/03/21/lego-toilet-paper-folder-dispenser-prototype/ By now you might have heard about the new 2007 Lexus LS460's selfpark feature. How about an NXT version of that along with speech recognition? Watch this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfxYAUBw-0  http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/12/15/nxt-lexus-ls-460/ "Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off its first commercial operating system for robots, with hopes of paving the way for a broader robotics industry and taking a central role in its development." "Since June, the software has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, with interest from academics, hobbyists and industry, ... http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/12/13/microsoft-unveils-public-robotics-software/ Coverage of the LEGO NXT and the MIT Media Lab's company Playful Invention Company (started by my ex boss Mitchel Resnick) on Businessweek. It adds a little bit of history to the LEGO Mindstorm development: Read it at: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/sep2006/id20060907_525435.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_innovation+and+design+lead Slideshow at: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/09/picocricket/slideshow.htm http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/09/06/just-out-nxt-on-businessweek/ AUSTIN, Texas - NIWeek - Aug. 8, 2006 – National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) announced the NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. With the new toolkit, LabVIEW users can create and download VIs to operate and control the MINDSTORMS NXT robotics platform. Third-party software and hardware developers also can use ... http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/09/06/ni-introduces-labview-toolkit-for-lego-mindstorms-nxt-robotics/ See Wimo's blog at:  http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/05/13/596684.aspx http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/07/25/more-about-the-lego-nxt-wimo-robot/ I attended Microsoft's NXT demo yesterday. What a great event! Not to mention the free box lunch :) NXT MDP Steven Hassenplug, David Schilling and Christopher Smith were there showing off their robots. The funny thing is that I didn't even realize Christopher from the nxt step was actually there ... http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/07/25/attended-the-microsoft-nxt-mdp-demo/ Microsoft announces the Microsoft Robotics Studio, which offers end-to-end robotics development environment customer technical preview for hobbyist, academic, and commercial developers.   A quote relating to NXT: “Microsoft, together with the upcoming LEGO Mindstorms NXT, will help further amplify the impact of robotics,” said Soren Lund, director of LEGO Mindstorms. “… In combination ... http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/07/07/microsoft-robotics-studio-on-channel9/ University of Michigan students Doug Li, Jeff Loevell, and Mike Zajac created this strange yet fascinating “Rubik’s Cube Solver” robot for their final project — it does the job to say the least, and quite well (54 seconds): http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/rubiks-cube-solving-robot http://www.nxtclub.com/2006/06/26/really-cool-rubiks-cube-solving-robot/