Happy 2010 From BotJunkie, May The Next Decade Be Filled With Robots (Friendly Ones)
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 1 of January , 2010 at 12:01 am
You’re probably too busy drinking champagne and kissing someone you just met to be checking BotJunkie right now, and so am I, but I’ve queued up this post for the first minute of 2010 anyway. I just wanted to take a minute and say, thanks for reading. And more importantly, thanks for being interested in robots. It’s your enthusiasm (yes, you!) that makes BotJunkie worth it for me. I don’t write about robots to make money (although eventually it might be nice if that were to happen), I write about robots because I love robots, and I love sharing new robot stuff with you guys. Keep commenting, keep sending emails, and I’ll do my level best to keep delivering awesome robot news.
Speaking of awesome robot news, an extra super special thanks to sites like Robots.net, Robots-Dreams, Suicide Bots, Robot Watch, IEEE Automaton, Plastic Pals, Robot Stock News, Botropolis, Robot Living, GetRobo, and many others, including those sites that just have robot content every once in a while. I work hard to make BotJunkie the absolute best robot blog EVAR, and sites like these keep me inspired and help to come up with some great content. If you only read one robot blog, I hope it’s BotJunkie, but if you want to read ten or eleven, well, there you go.
So what’s in store for 2010? Well, we’re kicking off the year with a trip to the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. For sure we’ll be hooking up with Keepon again and getting the latest updates on when you’ll be able to buy your own little squishy dancing robot, taking an in-person look at the new Neato XV-11 robot vacuum, and reportedly, meeting “the world’s first sex robot.” But as always, it’s the stuff that we don’t know about in advance that’s going to be the most exciting, so stay tuned… We’ll be there from Tuesday January 5th though Sunday January 10th with coverage as non-stop as I am physically capable of.
Also, I’m hoping to run a few more contests in the near future, starting with the 2009 Uncanny Valley Award for creepiest robot of the past year. Look for that after CES, with prizes that will probably include whatever swag we pick up at the show, among other things.
So again, thanks for reading, and thanks for being as fascinated with robots as I am. Happy 2010!
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Comment by Norri Kageki
Made Friday, 1 of January , 2010 at 11:25 pm
Happy New Year to you too! Thank you for reading and mentioning GetRobo on your new year’s message. Now that Robot Watch has closed (this has been a real shock to us), we hope to fill in the gap somehow by providing robot news from Japan as much as possible.
Comment by seabird
Made Saturday, 2 of January , 2010 at 1:30 pm
I think the winner of the 09 uncanny valley contest will be those singing heads 0_0
Comment by Robotbling
Made Sunday, 3 of January , 2010 at 4:44 am
Thanks for the shout out, Evan!
Comment by amodedoma
Made Monday, 4 of January , 2010 at 6:39 am
Happy new year to all! Hopefully we’ll be crossing some paradigm in engineering this year. I’d like to see standardized articulations, instead of adapting RC servos with complicated hardware. Maybe a new battery technology, smaller and cheaper video cameras, Sheeeeit, there’s still plenty to do. Good luck to you all and … get busy!
