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[DPRG] World's First Pico Sumo Bot
Subject: [DPRG] World's First Pico Sumo Bot
From: Zac Wheeler
zac at poor-robot.com
Date: Fri Apr 6 17:13:39 CDT 2007
Hey Steve,
The Sandia bot is the one that inspired me to take this on. I was a
little disappointed to learn it only had a temperature sensor, but I'm
sure they've done cooler projects since then. Stuff that they can't
issue press releases for :)
I wish I had die-on-glass tech at home :)
Zac
R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:40, Zac Wheeler wrote:
>
>> I've finished (sort of) building my first sumo bot, which I believe is
>> also the first pico sumo robot, as well as the current smallest robot in
>> the world.
>>
>
> Pretty cool!
>
> You might also want to check out Sandia's autonomous mini-robot (a .25
> inch cube) from back in 2001. The DOE paid for theirs, so it probably
> cost more than yours. :)
>
> http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm
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> -Steve
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