tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223169602012-01-14T07:10:40.540-08:00<a href="http://shifz.org/shifz.htm">SHIFZ</a> is the syntharturalist art association, founded and based in Vienna.magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.comBlogger3521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-55553276388851381062011-11-20T05:43:00.000-08:002011-11-20T05:51:45.497-08:00

Christian Gjorret over at "Vive Les Robots" will be publishing an article about Roboexotica every day leading up to Roboexotica's opening on Dec 1st, and will then continue reporting live from Roboexotica. The first article went online today and features a short portrait of yours truly. (Link)

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The 13th Roboexotica will open its doors on Thursday, Dec 1st, 7pm at Ragnarhof, Grundsteingasse 86-88, 1160 Vienna, and will conclude with the Annual Cocktail Awards (ACRA) on Sunday, Dec 4th. In addition to the exhibition, conference and awards, there will be a daily live music program and DJs. Thu, Dec 1st7pm Opening7:30pm Live: Billyshes9:30pm Live: drama&sternDJ Dophunk  Fri, Dec

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-89336959836381958922011-05-11T06:07:00.000-07:002011-05-11T08:36:22.810-07:00

In April the White Russian Hippie cocktail robot showed at two events in San Francisco, California: Barbot, Roboexotica's sister event that emerged from Roboexotic-US, and Robogames.Barbot was a two night event at pariSoma showcasing around 10 tasteful creations concerning cocktails and robots, some of which mixed and served cocktails like the White Russian Hippie, one of which vaporized spirits

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-58633044778517125522010-12-13T05:34:00.001-08:002010-12-13T06:02:11.894-08:00

Time to give an overview of the many photos, videos and articles about this year's festival. Thanks to everyone who documented the event and put it up on the intertubes!Photos on Flickr:There's the Roboexotica Flickr group, where you'll find pics by Sean Bonner, Phil Stearns and others including yours truly: http://www.flickr.com/groups/roboexotica_festival/.Videos on YouTube:Melmacc, Layerbot,

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The Annual Cocktail Robot Awards 12.0 were handed to the deserving winners on Sunday, the closing night of Roboexotica 2010.Serving Cocktails: Amboribot by Daniel Schatzmayr, Andrea Reiss, Nora NeumannMixing Cocktails: Layer Bot by Bernhard KubicekConversation: Daredroid by Jane Tingley, Anouk Wipprecht and Marius KintelFire & Smoke: Desoberation Chamber by Dixie Red & Heisl AmirOther

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One month to go until this year's iteration of Roboexotica the world's leading festival for Cocktail Robotics and the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards!Date & Location: Dec. 2-5 / moë, Thelemanngasse 4, 1170 ViennaWe continue our nomadic phase, as last year's venue is a construction site right now and appropriate(ly affordable) locations are scarce.We expect a number of international and local

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-29586914995059199782010-11-01T02:21:00.000-07:002010-11-01T02:59:48.612-07:00

In January of this year, the outcome of last year's Cocktail Robot workshop mixed White Russians (and White Russian Hippies(*), the vegan version of the cocktail) at an event organized by Vienna Independant Shorts (VIS) - and was caught on TV camera.Later this year it appeared in the arte.tv magazine Kurzschluss (Short Circuit).And much later this year, I stumbled upon the clip online. Here it is

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-55739202199450105012010-07-03T07:45:00.000-07:002010-07-03T08:23:20.695-07:00

After Chris V. heroically repairing it from it's test run two weeks ago until deep into the night before, Barfly had another run delivering flying cocktails at VEKKS yesterday night.Despite numerous fixes described to me by Chris's in-house deputy-electrician Steve, the delivery to crash (not literally gladly!) ratio was about 1:1 around midnight when I left (quite un-barfly like) to get some

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-60046701543246550662010-03-21T05:29:00.000-07:002010-03-21T05:41:42.141-07:00

This pic was taken by Rich Gibson at Roboexotica back in December. It's an amazing gigapan image you can zoom into to see every little detail of the machinery.Enjoy!(Robomoji - multiple ACRA winning mojito mixing robot by Robert Martin)

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A late heads up about Roboexotica being mentioned in the New York Times over a week back. Yours truly was approached by a journalist preparing an article about cooking robots in which he was also going to mention cocktail making robots, so I ended up being quoted a few times in the article!The headline of the article awesomely reads: "Just Like Mombot Used to Make".Links: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-88233854256335843742010-02-23T04:30:00.000-08:002010-02-23T04:45:59.950-08:00

Last week our friends on the american west coast celebrated Cocktail Robotics at San Francisco's DNA Lounge.Roboexotica's Johannes Grenzfurthner was there to hold the opening speech and he brought some of his students along who had been excelling at Roboexotica last Dec with their Whiskey serving robot.The video above looks like it was quite the success, and I did spot one or two new cocktail

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-3658226360978930262009-12-07T12:23:00.000-08:002009-12-07T12:26:31.372-08:00

Re-post from Mechatiki Research blog:In a successful mixed-reality ceremony, Misprint Thursday was awarded the first Virtual Cocktail Robot Award for her creation Wodka Bot.The RL ceremony of the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards was video-streamed into SL, and when the moment came to award the virtual prize the RL video projector was switched to show the inworld scene, where an illustrous round had

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The Annual Cocktail Robot Awards have been awarde to a list of worthy recipients. You can get the complete list here: http://www.roboexotica.com/?acraAnd along with the real world robots, one virtual cocktail robot received an award in Second Life in a mixed reality ceremony. More of all that later, for now I just wanted to get out the winners!

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-75567890780226595712009-11-29T17:16:00.000-08:002009-11-29T17:30:14.555-08:00

You are questioning the rationale behind virtual cocktails made by virtual robots? Well once upon a time people thought making real robots mix drinks was crazy. Hello?!In any case we are showing our appreciation for cocktail robots in their virtual incarnation by awarding the first Virtual Cocktail Robot Award this year in an inworld ceremony in Second Life (TM), that will be part of the ACRA

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-44846703381904844092009-11-27T13:34:00.000-08:002009-11-27T13:54:27.965-08:00

Our little workshop has produced a robot that will offer the choice of a vegan (!) version of White Russian; the artist-in-residence Americans are tinkering away in their laboratories; Bar2D2 has arrived in 2 neat crates ...Roboexotica is near! Opening Dec 3rd 7pm.This year at a new location:"Drinkomat", Missindorferstr. 21/ Stiege 7 / 2. Stock, 1140 Vienna(http://www.roboexotica.org/?location)..

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-74762238308218809492009-11-08T03:02:00.000-08:002009-11-08T03:47:41.056-08:00

Roboexotica imminent! All cocktail roboticists on deck, soldering irons plugged.We invite you to join us at the 11th Roboexotica in history from December 3-6!While we are still trembling about getting one of the most interesting robots (Bar2D2) from the US over here (cross your fingers that there is a reasonable shipper somewhere), the preparations in Vienna are beginning.This year a new location

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-50016605180644546352009-10-12T18:10:00.000-07:002009-10-13T04:21:36.893-07:00

Our russian friends of Cyland Media Art Lab have been developing a gallery inside Second Life (R) which is due to be opened this sunday.Cyland Media Art Lab, an artistic laboratory based in St. Petersburg and New York, arrived in SL! As it opened its doors quietly in summer we now want to point out that there will be an opening-event on Oct. 18th, 10 am SLT!["Every snail is an artist." - video

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Some of the world's most renowned cocktail robot builders are going to teach up to 15 participants how to make a cost effective cocktail mixing robot from Nov 9-14 in the 1st Vienna Cocktail Robot Workshop.With Chris Veigl and Franz Ablinger two seasoned Roboexoticans are willing to share their experiences. My role in this effort is clear: Providing the know-nothing perspective of someone who can

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(photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid)Good old Chassis has got competition in the free-beer robotics class. The tweeting @beerrobot set free by Wired.com has debuted in San Francisco yesterday night at a local brewery:@beerrobot: I'm here @21stamendment. Come see me! http://yfrog.com/5dc8ikj about 19 hours ago from Tweetie@beerrobot: I have so many new friends! http://yfrog.com/3qmrxj about 18

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-8768037530129045132009-07-01T08:20:00.000-07:002009-07-01T08:34:41.145-07:00

NEW!If you can't wait for the next festival to purchase one of the hand-printed-with-love Tees from motmot Design, or are stuck on some far away continent like America ...you now can still have Roboexotica Merchandize:http://www.cafepress.com/roboexoticusFor now all in black with one or two greyish articles.Different types of short sleeve shirts (Organic, Maternity, Kids, Toddler), long-sleeves,

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-57538548557791012002009-06-30T07:26:00.000-07:002009-06-30T08:05:02.172-07:00

We knew that theoretically RepRap would be able to print with chcocolate. But we are pleasantly surprised that the good people of EvilMadScientist Labs have invented a technology to manufacture pieces from sugar by caramelizing layer by layer.Watch the process in the video below:Now I can't stop visualizing cocktails in tiny edible caramel glasses.

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Appeal for Money!As bartending robots become more efficient every year in developments around the globe, it becomes more and more important to uphold the values that make a true “Cocktail Robot”. An abstract concept that has been approached and exemplified for the last decade by a transatlantic mix of innovative and at the same time sensual minds from many walks of life, including but not limited

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Stuart Ferguson's robot bartender iLush had in fact already won last year's Gold medal at Robogames. Actually Roboexotica has been in contact with Stuart in order to get iLush to roboeXotica Dec 2008. But due to unfavorable circumstances they didn't make it and so the first chance yours truly had to lay eyes on the contraption occured at this year's robotic equivalent to the Olympic games -

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Last week Saturday I saw some crazy ass electric demonstration in Oakland involving the giant Tesla coils pictured above ... a light bulb was powered by electricity transmitted throught the air while sparks flew and didn't fail to mesmerize the watching crowd.Inside the venue of the dorkbotSF 7 year anniversary party there were several other interesting contraptions being displayed and presented

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The bartenting competition's winners have just been awarded their medals. iLush (to left in the pic above) came out on top, followed by Fairy Juicer and Cosmobot. Stuart Ferguson's creation had already won Gold last year and winning against such tough competition can apparently be perhaps be attributed to the fact that it was the only bot this year that was able to serve more than one specific

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-36180440885584212312009-06-14T15:02:00.001-07:002009-06-14T15:12:21.743-07:00

The hordes of combots have been weeded out as the fights get fiercer in the arena. The judging of the artbots has been completed. The humans are running on empty batteries. Cocktails are being prepared and served by robots. Candyfab is printing 3D objects from sugar.It is the third and final day of the world's largest robot competition in San Francisco. I am missing my camera right now so I

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-29492211653203258992009-06-08T13:23:00.000-07:002009-06-08T13:30:17.709-07:00

This promises to be a fun new category among the over 60 competitions at Robogames 2009 - Humanoid Mechwarriors battling each other with BB gun ammunition and other weapons.Below are two videos showing preparations of a Robonova for combat in the Mechwar arena. The first one shows how motions are captured to be programmed into the remote. The second shows target testing with live

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-90852382093715328202009-06-08T12:54:00.000-07:002009-06-08T13:03:22.485-07:00

Greg, the Robogames intern has come up with a marshmellow roasting robot, which he showed off in the Mills Valley kitchen of Robogames organizers Simone Davalos and David Calkins.Others would add now "Don't try this at home." or something like it. But I just can't get myself to do that. On the contrary, let me urge you to reproduce this experiment! 

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-72144904290242547762009-05-23T11:29:00.001-07:002009-05-23T11:31:22.858-07:00

When I read the announcement a few days ago on Suicide Bots that Josh Ellingson, the artist that had designed the Robogames 2008 poster, would have his first exhibit in SL at the Museum of Robots, I got all excited because the art on the poster was impressive. And indeed Josh - or Grover Zelin in SL - did deliver.Highly recommended!Photos on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifzr/tags/

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-63302462449387465442009-05-14T08:40:00.000-07:002009-05-14T09:01:01.517-07:00

Photos and video clips from Roboexotica 2008 in Vienna, the 10th annual festival for cocktail robotics. Covering mostly the exhibit in (and in front of) Museumsquartier, it also includes scenes from Chris Janka's live performance "spark guitar", Hannes Krebs & Marco Eneidi's freejazz gig at VEKKS as well as a passage of reading by Rainer Tramin.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-76094315344391061052009-05-13T13:01:00.000-07:002009-05-13T13:10:18.705-07:00

The 1980s robot HERo-1, which we had always assumed had cocktail-robotic potential actually proves to have performed such duties assigned to him by his creator, youtube user wendylouwho:"HERO the Robot, built in 1983 by the author, was programmable and tended bar at parties, just like R2-D2 in Star Wars! I did this for the humor when I was young & crazy (I no longer drink). Mostly, I was

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-78342827023177215372009-05-05T17:27:00.000-07:002009-05-06T10:25:33.808-07:00

Mister Robotics declares:"... it's robot season! As robot season gets bigger andbetter in our sixth big year, here's a whole slew of robot excitement toget you pumped for this year's RoboGames (just over a month away!)Three Extra special pre-RoboGames events to get you ready - pick one or allthree!"Sat, May 9th - Laughing Squid's Super Secret Robot PartySat, May 16th - Combat Preview and Beer

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-78056917374026484832009-03-08T09:03:00.000-07:002009-03-08T09:09:03.956-07:00

This cocktail-robot was presented at Roboexotica 2008 by Mitch Heinrich and won the Annual Cocktail Robot Award in the serving category ... to get an absinth you have to squoosh "the green fairy".

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-73299476082772540432009-03-07T08:47:00.000-08:002009-03-07T10:05:32.381-08:00

Help Austrian Cocktailrobots travel to the US and provide Californians with a cerebral stimulus package in spring 2009! Donate now with paypal or CC.Austrians have a 10 year tradition of building cocktail-mixing and serving robots, like this one, or that.And robots with other achievements in the sector of modern cocktail-culture, like this one, or that.We (the people doing the annual

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-59240328267810414642009-02-21T06:02:00.000-08:002009-03-20T06:38:03.700-07:00

Oh, Eddie Codel's video report of roboeXotica 2008 is turning up! (via boingboing)

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(or at least the part going after youtube uploads)I am using fould language on this blog for the first time (as far as I recall) to comment on the ongoing disabling of youtube videos on behalf of retarded, anally retentive, copyright-abusing music companies.A) It has been pointed out by far more competent people than me that it does not hurt sales to have fan-uploaded music clips on youtube, so I

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-45112713520435301962009-01-18T09:02:00.000-08:002009-01-18T09:34:22.889-08:00

anybots presented their telepresence robot prototype QA at CES, which is quite humanoidly shaped, except navigating smoothly on Segway-type lower extremeties (and lacking arms).On their web-page anybots present two more robots in development which arose my interest -Dexter, a bi-ped with the ability to jump and run.And Monty, a potential cocktial-robot, which "has one fully articulated hand (

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-26377913705580631572008-12-09T08:58:00.000-08:002008-12-13T08:06:29.100-08:00

The tenth Annual Cocktail Robot Awards have been handed to these recipients:SERVINGSloth (Kal Spelletich) and Fairy Juicer (Mitch Heinrich, David Fine)MIXINGK&K Kavalier Klavier and Construction Wanker (both FH Joanneum)CONVERSATIONChassis (Al Honig, Jon Foote)SMOKING CULTUREtemporarily suspended - no according entries ... shame on you humankind!OTHER ACHIEVEMENTSreprap shotbot (Bre Pettis,

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-8230019440617653692008-12-05T04:48:00.000-08:002008-12-05T04:57:13.316-08:00

Mine, Bre Pettis's, Eddie Coddel's, Christopher T. Palmer's

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In time for the opening a catalouge has been published to commemorate the tenth ROBOEXOTICA.Thanks to the good friends who contributed texts to the book ...and all those who made Roboexotica last this long!UPDATE: Now available on Amazon.de!

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My bet for the first photos and coverage is on SuicideBots.com ... who sent their own Head Rotor aka Jon Foote (who is with Chassis which is making friends with the crowd as I speak ...Now here's for my VIP guest blogger Kal who will give his first impressions:OMG i am sooo drunk, this damn festival, robots spewing, dripping, oozing and dumping every perceivable concoction down and all over me!!

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-84050290375379367242008-11-20T04:05:00.000-08:002008-11-20T04:38:40.796-08:00

ROBOEXOTICA Chief Theory Officer Günther Friesinger of Bureau für Philosphie and his team put together the conference which accompanies this year's Festival for Cocktail RoboticsHere's the abstract:Back to the Future – of Utopias in Cybernetics and RoboticsThe Roböxotica – an event which is unique due to its scientific standards, its sincerity and its sophisticated way of entertaining, dealing

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-9789930834211174762008-11-20T04:01:00.000-08:002008-11-20T04:03:03.989-08:00

ENGLISH / GERMAN

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As our webpage is notoriously outdated (and our webmeister notoriously over-worked), let me provide you with a preliminary outline of this years's festival program (the german version of the program is online "already" though)dec 47pm opening starts outdoors at the Robovox installation just outside Freiraum/quartier21, where the ceremony proceeds with Live music at 8pm. dec 5 6pm Literature

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Until we decide to release more details on this year's roboeXotica [Dec 4 - Dec 14, Museumsquartier Wien] - I'll leave you with this video tip:At 21min45sec we learn what the future of cocktail robotics will hold.(thx jg)

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... for the strenuous ROBOEXOTICA season, comes along this robotic innovation.An exo-skelton type device that is designed "to help the user walk, crouch and stand without excessive stress on the hips, knees and ankles."I just wish the technology was already built into pants and I was lucky enough to get a pair of prototypes to review!The Honda robo legs run on two motors and weigh less than 15

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-32345046208884967002008-11-10T06:28:00.000-08:002008-11-10T06:33:54.538-08:00

A few video-shots with my photo cam from last year's opening of ROBOEX07ICA Festival in Museumsquartier.Talking towards the end of the clip: US Cultural Attache Katherine Perez.roboeXotica 2008, opening Dec 4th: see post below.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-33060280853768693032008-10-01T06:40:00.000-07:002008-10-01T06:55:11.413-07:00

The tenth ROBOEXOTICA is coming closer with big steps, just two month to go!We expect some very interesting new candidates for the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards 10.0, like this really nifty creation you can get a glimpse of at Jamie Price's flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28127470@N03/This year's festival will see a main event from Dec. 4-7, with the Freiraum in MQ hosting the exhibit

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-36458848409596613812008-05-27T11:15:00.000-07:002008-05-27T11:33:24.175-07:00

First there was news of an omelette frying Chief Cook Robot, followed by notice of Innoc's robot sail boat Row-Bot winning another contest making it ruling robot sailing world champion.Today finally there was news on TV about an Austrian with two full prosthetic robot arms showing off his banana pealing and eating skills, the device is cleverly hooked up to his brain and with a little training

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-66220219601899227092008-05-27T10:54:00.000-07:002008-05-27T11:14:12.200-07:00

The SERVO article on ROBOEX07ICA mentioned earlier is available online now - Link.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-8542709575483151932008-05-13T18:24:00.000-07:002008-05-13T18:30:20.900-07:00

Rumors of a cocktail hour or two on Wednesday night are thickening to a degree where it seems appropriate to send out an invite -If you missed the opening, visit us at 360 (!) 5th St. SF, Cocktail Hour(s) starting at Wednesday 9pm.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-70534779323944909342008-05-13T16:36:00.000-07:002008-05-13T16:42:07.758-07:00

Behold Horton the robotic elephant pour one of our plants shots of pure clean water. If needed Horton could be told to pick up additional ingredients for a well balanced nutritious plant cocktail.Here's another short vid of a test-run on the floor.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-77797917900779562102008-05-12T15:34:00.000-07:002008-05-12T15:40:10.949-07:00

The Wired Gallery of our opening is online, 9 great shots each with a witty paragraph of text. Our press department is happy.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-90060259471261701892008-05-12T14:04:00.000-07:002008-05-12T14:14:49.060-07:00

Firstly, thanks to all who made the grandiose opening on Saturday happening - Simone Davalos, David Calkins, Skot Kuiper of Space, the exhibitors, the helping hands and the crowd who were eagerly embracing cocktail-robotics.Tonight the exhibit will be open to the public between 8-10pm, at 354 5th St. SF - the entry is different from the party, it's next to the window-room, where you will be able

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-43558828536603761462008-05-11T15:33:00.000-07:002008-05-12T11:27:59.538-07:00

Yesterday night - finally - I had a chance to see Chassis serving beer (Al Honig, one of the creators informed me it's easily possible to serve pre-mixed cocktails) ... beautiful Chassis! Sprung right out of a 50s science fiction fantasy he rolled about and poured people delicious beer. And communicated via a human operator, who lent the service robot's performance during the evening an even more

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-67339281742786714382008-05-10T11:28:00.000-07:002008-05-10T11:35:55.655-07:00

We had a couple early birds drop by the venue yesterday night, among them cnet journalist Daniel Terdiman - see his article..Here's a clip of El Borracho serving his first flaming cocktail this season:Join us tonight May 10th at 354 5th St. San Francisco to get a glimpse of the strange and wonderful world of cocktail-robotics! Opening 8pm.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-22153777254185958092008-05-08T01:15:00.000-07:002008-05-08T01:22:22.347-07:00

Talking of Simone - this video comes via her blog, Suicidebots.com:... starring a spinning beer keg turned fighting robot - Beer Bash!

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-72373645400100018032008-05-08T00:27:00.000-07:002008-05-08T00:58:07.779-07:00

Simone Davalos who built one of the award winning cocktail-robots at Roboex07ica, wrote an article for Servo magazine to appear June 2008, of which I present you an exclusive preview:"[...] Participants from around the world brought their machines to vie for the top awards, which go to the robots that best fulfill the stringent and exacting standards of the judging categories: Serving, Mixing,

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-54078513509341638822008-05-07T09:23:00.000-07:002008-05-07T09:46:03.286-07:00

ROBOEXOTICA - the festival for Cocktail-Robotics - is inviting you to bring your contraptions to our first US exhibit/cocktail-party/mini-festival, if it shows any of these behavior patterns:- serving drinks- mixing drinks- activities in smoking culture- bar conversation- other achievements that fit into the sector of 21st century cocktail culture Opening: may 10 8pm / 354 5th st. san francisco

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-72532623316943283472008-05-06T22:24:00.000-07:002008-05-08T00:59:54.346-07:00

"What could be better in life than robots and cocktails? Well, nothing! Roboexotica is the premier cocktail making robot event which happens in Vienna each year. This week it comes to San Francisco. Join us for good music, cocktails, and robots that pour you drinks, insult you, and test your BAC. Several different artists from around the Bay Area and Europe will be presenting their work for

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-19580746478527719512008-05-03T23:11:00.000-07:002008-05-03T23:59:45.707-07:00

Next Saturday the first US Robexotica exhibition is opening at Space, 354 5th St. San Francisco.The Austrian cocktail robots that came to the Bay Area for Maker Faire will be joined by several local creations, ones that have been to Vienna for ROBOEXOTICA before, and some that haven't.You are invited to join us at the grand opening on Sat. May 10th from 8pm-2am! The show runs for a week after

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-23855453488540772042008-05-03T23:00:00.000-07:002008-05-03T23:08:50.114-07:00

Day One has been survived - many pictures wait to be uploaded, but some are ready to be viewed on Flickr.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-63988596984165243932008-04-18T01:48:00.000-07:002008-04-19T06:27:42.401-07:00

Does this robot know how you like your martini? Yes it does! Presenting the MindReading MartiniMaker and other award-winning cocktail-robots, the founders of ROBOEXOTICA, the world's leading festival on the matter, announce the American franchise of the cocktail-robotic plot to achieve world-domination meet the MindReadingMartiniMaker and others of the world's best cocktailrobots at the

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-77674993776033507912008-04-12T05:28:00.000-07:002008-04-12T05:46:27.942-07:00

What would your thoughts be if a lethally armed combat robot started pointing his M249 light machine gun in your direction - when apparently not told to do so?Seems the US military is just as dastardly - they pulled out the three SWORD units that were deployed to Iraq last year, after "the gun started moving when it was not intended to move."While the actual incidents happened already last year,

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-45715633842503808442008-04-03T05:02:00.000-07:002008-04-03T05:22:18.221-07:00

Today ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle "Jules Verne" will be practicing machine-sex ("docking") with the International Space Station orbiting our lovely planet.The Vehicle is a step forward in Europe's aspirations in outer space autonomy. It will help supply the ISS with needed goods - and will probably take back part of them as trash when it leaves the station again.This time the ATV will

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-83724612710886217072008-03-11T05:59:00.001-07:002008-03-11T06:04:55.190-07:00

Chassis, which has actually been announced to participate in ROBOEXOTICA 2007, is officially finished now and Simone of SuicideBots has a nice little presentation video online ...Hope to see the foaming fellow soon!

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-12045268072659437192008-03-09T05:43:00.000-07:002008-03-09T06:16:27.982-07:00

From June 13-18th 2008, hundreds of robots will descend onto San Francisco's Fort Mason Center, where they will compete for dozens of gold medals inside the Festival Pavilion.Last year was great fun, and Chris Veigl's Cockbot One returned home with one of those treasured trophies.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-55675023676492977942008-01-24T14:35:00.000-08:002008-01-24T14:55:46.625-08:00

Suicidebots has a link to an article on how to fund your robot project on a page called Society of Robots ...Covering dumpster diving and "begging like a hobo" it also has tips like:"Yeap, companies are itching to give stuff away for free. Basically if you work at a company, and are working on a prototype, parts manufacturer companies want you to sample their parts in an effort to convince you to

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-3489287188714285422008-01-04T05:17:00.000-08:002008-01-05T03:57:24.012-08:00

Gracious Living is the appropriate title of this limited edition "Giclee"-print by Coop. The mail person brought it one early morning this week and since it will take me a while before getting it framed, I am unrolling it daily to admire it!

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-57104501520152152652007-12-14T06:44:00.000-08:002007-12-14T08:07:08.397-08:00

Three weeks after the festival's over, I am slowly recovering from my annual peak alcohol-consumption (and reckless sleep-deprivation) - simultaneously fighting off the consequences of a snowy winter settling on Vienna (*coughcough*) - and I am starting to try to complete the coverage of this year's cocktail robotics festival #1 ...- Conference audio: The symposium has been audio-recorded and put

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-65606893591109044062007-11-30T05:32:00.000-08:002007-12-03T15:11:09.733-08:00

Wired blog has a closer look at some of the ACRA 9.0 winners: Chris Palmer's Brethalyzer Genii, Franz Ablinger's Gesundheit, Robert Martin's Robomoji, Roman Maeder's Holy Golden Milk+Wodcow and Misha á Crest's Explanator.Oh btw Mr. Dempsey, the Explanator not only is an alcohol-producing musical instrument - it is also an alcoholic vapor dispenser, enabling you to consume Absynth by inhaling

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-36656615676833818752007-11-27T02:31:00.000-08:002007-11-27T03:57:02.753-08:00

eSeL has taken a lot of pictures: Opening - Exhibition ... and has even started uploading them on flickr.More photos taken by: Chris Thomas Palmer, Simone Davalos, Bre Pettis, Cory Doctorow.My own camera got "lost" during ROBOEX07ICA, so my flickr-set is smaller than anticipated (and covers more of the build-up than the festival).

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-91179233196070618892007-11-25T17:02:00.000-08:002007-11-27T03:56:04.842-08:00

While the cool kids are partying on at Bre Pettis' residence, the only thing keeping me from sleep is the urge to let the world know the winners of the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards 9.0 ...In a late and dynamic gala there were prizes given away in more categories than ever.At this point a word or two on the judgment system seems appropriate: The "secret judges" never knew they were judging when

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-16178171962736396572007-11-23T04:44:00.000-08:002007-11-23T09:56:17.265-08:00

The ninth ROBOEXOTICA opened it's doors yesterday in Vienna's Museumsquartier. Artists and roboticists are showing their creations at the annual Festival for Cocktailrobotics, competing for the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards. Pictured above is the American Cultural Attache Katherine Perez, admiring the achievements of her fellow citizen David Calkins - by now a ROBOEXOTICA regular - who is holding

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-24563426090598164172007-11-21T14:54:00.000-08:002007-11-21T15:45:21.686-08:00

In exactly 19 hours ROBOEXOTICA 2007 will be officially opening, already there is some serious bloggage going on:SuicideBotsBoingBoingGridskipperMake:blogROBOEX07ICA: Nov 22-25, Vienna - Link to Schedule

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-82701057035197648672007-11-19T09:49:00.001-08:002007-11-19T10:23:29.790-08:00

It's the time of the year when robots from all over are traveling abroad to meet up with relatives and celebrate the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards, which are part of the world's first Festival for Cocktailrobotics - ROBOEXOTICA.The ninth installment is about to start this thursday evening in Vienna - here are some first pics from the build-up at Museumsquartier.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-62178798406092632642007-11-16T01:32:00.000-08:002007-11-16T01:44:53.506-08:00

BTW, in case you haven't studied the updated schedule thouroughly enough - Comic-Superhero Cory Doctorow is visiting ROBOEXOTICA again.(Part 5 of "1337" by xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.)

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-12766129988963861642007-11-15T03:07:00.000-08:002007-11-15T03:26:34.777-08:00

Thursday 11/22, 2007Museumsquartier Wien, Freiraum7 P.M.: Roboexotica 2007 and AiR Space opening.Live - GameJew, Mr. ElectricOn the turntables - DJ Borka, VJ Ozo Friday 11/23, 2007Museumsquartier Wien, Freiraum10 A.M. - 10 P.M.: Exhibition5 P.M.: DJ Ossi & KilianMuseumsquartier Wien, Erste Bank Arena1 P.M. - 5 P.M.: Symposium (in german language)Thomas Ballhausen: Geister sehen. - Zur Veränderung

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-28807024837774142262007-11-12T08:55:00.001-08:002007-11-12T13:34:42.093-08:00

quartier 21's Aritist in Residence program hosts two of this year's participants - monochrom (who rent an office in q21 and are eligible to name a portion of the AiRs) have invited Make: Magazine's Bre Pettis and David Fine, who has had his hands in one of last year's ACRA-winners - the External Combustion Engine."What makes the Artist-in-Residence program of quartier21 so unusual is that in

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-72040315639425050062007-11-11T03:32:00.000-08:002007-11-11T03:36:12.881-08:00

The Humans Are Dead by Flight Of The Conchords comes without words via Suicidebots - and really, there's not much to say - just: WATCH THIS, MEATBAG!

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-10298495470115690402007-10-23T10:58:00.000-07:002007-10-23T11:10:48.420-07:00

Those of you living in Vienna whoa) want to help us get the 1000pcs. hung b) want to secure a poster (or 20) for their living room wallcan pick 'em up Tue-Fri 12-7pm and Sat 12-6pm!... At Motmot Design's shop in Kirchengasse 36, A-1070 Vienna.Motmot - those are the wonderful people who've printed our lovely ROBOEXOTICA-shirts for the last couple years, Anna designed the poster this year.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-21289980755500119882007-10-01T05:10:00.000-07:002007-11-15T03:20:10.218-08:00

The ninth installment of the world's only Festival for Cocktailrobotics is less than 2 months away!ROBOEXOTICA 2007 will be held in Vienna, Austria Nov 22-25.The Annual Cocktail Robot Awards 9.0 will be given away during the ACRA Gala on Sunday 25th at Volkstheater Wien's Rote BarTHU Nov 22Opening 7pm (Freiraum q21, MuseumsQuartier) FRI Nov 23Exhibition 10am-10pm (Freiraum q21, MQ)Symposium 1pm-

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-51593479053910349002007-09-07T13:21:00.000-07:002007-09-07T13:45:40.964-07:00

Cory Doctorow's Printcrime is SL-ized:"Michael Buckbee, proprietor of a "Fabjectory" (Bruce Sterling's neologism "fabject" + "factory" = Fabjectory) has created a Second Life version of the print-and-fold minicomic of Printcrime, created by talented comics artist Martin Cendreda."I grabbed a copy at Fabjectory and you can come and make a copy at the not yet officially opened MechaTiki Skyloft.(

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-16040496997369676462007-09-07T05:41:00.000-07:002007-09-07T05:59:34.287-07:00

Our friends of Innoc have won the Microtransat for the second time in a row - with their autonomous robot-sailboat Roboat.This time the autonomous boats were competing in a 3km challenge and a 24h "impress the judges" event in Aberystwyth, Wales, Sept. 3rd - 6th, both won by Roboat.Innoc are already feverishly working on making Roboat ready for the first fully autonomous crossing of the Atlantic

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-22506363434878685742007-08-21T15:25:00.000-07:002007-08-21T15:36:32.501-07:00

A video from ABC's web-page showing the Swarmbot-Orbs getting ready to show a synchronized dance at this year's Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.When I heard about the project in May, I was somewhat reminded of this rolling robot: Rotundus.(via)

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-23257861143023085602007-08-13T03:36:00.000-07:002007-08-13T09:43:17.532-07:00

After a few weeks in Second Life, last weekend I (or should I say my avatar) found and bought a piece of aquatic land - a quiet parcel off shore in Marsco.And named it MechaTiki Space [Marsco(34/30/21)] ... where now ROBOEXOTICA [Marsco(38/18/51)] and SHIFZ [Marsco(41/4/101)] have their Second Offices, free floating in 50m and 100m altitude. There's video, free cocktails for visitors and a

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-20845833945591471832007-08-10T04:41:00.000-07:002007-08-10T06:13:25.759-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen - this looks like a promising entry in the Serving Drinks category of this year's ACRA (Annual Cocktail Robot Awards) ...Suicidebots blogger Headrotor alias Jon Foote who we met in San Francisco, where he laboured hard in the RoboGames crew - and where he had already expressed his intention to assemble a cocktail-robot for ROBOEX07ICA - has posted a first report on his and

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-18863862049064123252007-08-06T04:04:00.000-07:002007-08-06T04:09:35.342-07:00

... decide to come for you: Old Glory InsuranceI think it wasn't this insurance company David Calkins was referring to, when making the timeless quote "Our insurance explicitly includes giant killer robots."(via SuicideBots)

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-52529612668212904102007-07-29T05:54:00.000-07:002007-07-29T08:37:28.525-07:00

In the last two weeks, (during which by some strange coincidence I didn't post anything here) I tried to get some orientation in Second Life and get to understand the way objects and avatars can interact.A week ago I rented a cheap, small space and fitted it out as a kind of temporary SHIFZ office, offering free smokes and drinks and a few pieces of art for sale - some objects I constructed and

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-46772241735840915632007-07-29T05:25:00.000-07:002007-07-29T05:53:32.097-07:00

The team of FH Wels technical college, who won 3 out of 4 Austrian gold-medals at RoboGames, have done their homepress-work and so we found mention of a Vienniese team in some of the reports in print and online in the previous weeks.This week's emedia is the most elaborate report so far and the writer took the trouble of getting in touch with me, so there's some background information on Cockbot

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-69454602604989562522007-07-14T07:50:00.000-07:002011-01-22T06:49:26.478-08:00

Nemo Gould is one of the nice neighbours from Maker Faire who I met again at RoboGames. He showed some of his smaller works at the Faire right opposite our Roboexotica-booth, while at RoboGames he won robolympic medals with two rather large new pieces: Giant Squid (Gold) and General Debris (Bronze) in the kinetic artbot category.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-87847066713061606852007-07-14T05:33:00.000-07:002007-07-14T05:58:39.040-07:00

During his recent stay in Vienna, Sergey Teterin had reported that in his home-town Perm a robot cop had started patrolling the streets ... googling I found some reports to link to: News24, Yahoo.Actually it's a rather harmless version of a robo-cop: no weaponry at all (just cameras) and it suffers from infant's diseases like ... short-circuiting in the rain (LOLz)!The vulnerable drone is

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-68375164266348329732007-07-10T14:40:00.000-07:002007-07-10T15:17:41.313-07:00

Simone Davalos aka Missy Suicidebots quit her day job (at Long Now Foundation). Brian Eno wrote, sang, recorded, and mixed a song about it.Link to mp3.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-1677609530907679372007-07-08T05:58:00.000-07:002011-01-22T06:51:28.413-08:00

Here comes a ca. 12min video of RoboGames with a slight (or not so slight) bias towards bartending robots and fierce robot battles in the ComBots arena:Also I would like to point out the medal count: Team Roboexotica contributed to Austria ranking 5th, scoring one gold medal more than China!GOLDSILVERBRONZEUSA 33 34 27Singapore 6 6 5China 3 4 7Taiwain 6 4 2Austria 4 1 0

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-1395633530954592902007-07-07T14:12:00.000-07:002007-07-07T14:32:07.570-07:00

Meet MechaTiki Nr. 1 and 2, my first step on the way to a couple of designs I want to make to be stitched on sew-on and/or iron-on patches ... these two and a third MechaTiki are available as prints on magnets and more at my deviantArt store.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-50934234219783530702007-07-04T09:32:00.000-07:002011-01-22T07:11:01.841-08:00

Here are roughly ten minutes I recorded on photo cam at Maker Faire mid-may and found time to paste together finally ... music at the beginning is atmo from a walk outside - I believe the name of the band to be Cyclecide.Update / hint: at min. 8:28 drunktender in the Microsoft Pavilion makes it's appearance.

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-38980038759600921802007-06-29T08:44:00.000-07:002007-06-29T09:14:27.716-07:00

Serpent Mother, a rather large kinetic piece of fire-art by the San Francisco Flaming Lotus Girls is getting ready for her world tour, which will bring her to Robodock Festival in Amsterdam mid-September.Right now all the individual segments of Serpent Mother are being polished to make her all-shiny at the Boxshop, about which I will post more when I got the video processed that I took of Charly

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-70318293929704111602007-06-28T14:02:00.000-07:002007-06-29T06:28:51.299-07:00

Tonight Vienna saw a screening of Sergey Teterin's Video-Gallery Videotochka at MUSA - Museum auf Abruf ...It was a very mixed and at times surprising line-up of short-movies and clips.Opening with Archeopterix' Prometheus - a video which leaves some lasting impression of the guy with the burning walenki (traditional russian felt boots) on his head, but the german text was barely comprehensible,

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-8753586722250207262007-06-27T09:48:00.000-07:002007-06-27T10:16:25.075-07:00

First off the Official Results of RoboGames 2007.Plus a choice of reports from- Make:Blog 1, Make:Blog 2- Laughing Squid- Wired- and one random post from Robot's Dreams, out of more than a dozen ...

magnushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224858713539739057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22316960.post-58670392749818648762007-06-19T11:20:00.000-07:002007-06-19T11:31:59.174-07:00

said Sam Coniglio and designed the first Martini-glass for a zero-gravity environment.Sam is Vice President of the Space Tourism Society, a group of people planning the first holiday-resort like space-station, for people to spend up to two weeks in space in a hopefully not-so-distant future!It seems natural that Sam is looking for the perfect robot to go with his Martini glass, so I invited him

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