2012-10-21 Sunday - Rodney Brooks on Baxter

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/169/4935.html

...a new offering from http://www.rethinkrobotics.com

2012-10-21 Sunday - NimbRo-OP, Open Source Robot

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/169-robotics/4964-meet-nimbro-op-teen-size-open-source-robot.html

"...launched by the University of Bonn."

",,led by Professor Sven Behnke, that won the Louis Vuitton Cup for "Best Humanoid" in this year's RoboCup"

"95 cm tall (37.4 inches) and weighs 6.6 kg (14.55 pounds). It uses 20 Robotis Dynamixel servos, 6 per leg, 3 per amr and 2 in the nexk. It has a dual-core AMD E-450 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 64GB solid state drive. It also come equipped with WiFi, a wde-angled video camera (Logitech C905) and a Robotis CM-730 controller with 3-axis accelerometer, and 3-axis gyro. The GNU/Linux software is based on DARwin-OP."

2012-10-21 Sunday - New 32bit Arduino

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/4965-new-powerful-arduino-due-.html

2012-10-20 Saturday - Navy’s Humanoid Robot Dances Gangnam Style

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/navy-robot-gangnam-style/

Computer Poker Competition

http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/

University of Alberta
Computer Poker Research Group

Articles
Meet Hyperborean, the Poker-Playing AI

Regret Minimization in Games with Incomplete Information

A competitive Texas Hold'em poker player via automated abstraction and real-time equilibrium computation

On Combining Decisions from Multiple Expert Imitators for Performance

2012-07-26 Champions Declared in AI Poker Tournament
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/champions-declared-in-ai-poker-tournament

SparkFun and Fritzing

I happened upon this blog recently:
http://codeincluded.blogspot.co.nz/

which had some interesting projects...

...and he mentioned two sites that I thought would be very useful to others...

http://www.sparkfun.com/

http://fritzing.org/

Some Useful Arduino Resources

This posting is a placeholder for some potentially interesting / useful Arduino links:

http://sheepdogguides.com/arduino/artut.htm

http://sheepwalkelectronics.co.uk/

2012-04-24 Heather Knight and 'Data'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432704577349860916159278.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editorsPicks_2

Data is a "Nao" robot, a sort of high-tech blank slate made by the French robotics firm Aldebaran and used primarily for research and education (Nao robots are also the players of choice in the international RoboCup soccer league). Ms. Knight worked for Aldebaran after completing her undergraduate degree at MIT and helped to develop the touch-activated sensor on the robot's head. Now she writes complex behavioral programs for Data through an Aldebaran software called Choregraphe.

2012-03-09 ROS

This is something I want to remember to come back to later...

http://www.ros.org/wiki/

ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.