Trossen Robotics Crabfu Challenge Winners
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 18 of September , 2008 at 4:59 am
If there’s one thing that following robot news for, geez, over a year now has taught me, it’s that the personality exhibited by (or perhaps more accurately, conferred upon) a robot bears little or no relationship to its mechanical complexity or its resemblance to an actual person. Keepon is an excellent example of this, as are the creations of Crabfu. With Crabfu’s servobots in mind, Trossen Robotics sponsored a challenge to design a simple little bot with a big personality:
The challenge: To bring a bunch of hardware the illusion of life and character. This is NOT about AI or fancy software or hardware. It’s not to achieve real character or personality, but the ILLUSION of it. Autonomous robots can enter too, but this isn’t a contest of the smartest robot, but a smartest “looking” and “moving” robot could win. This is about the art of breathing some charm into a bunch of electronics. So the goal is simple, the most characterful robot wins.
Here’s the winner: Darwin, by jes1510.
Second and third place, after the jump.
Second place: Delfigelo, by Pladoh.
Third place: Robot Piggie, by Jagged.
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