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  I'm the thinker-upper, dreamer, designer, jack-of-what-needs-doin at RoBe:Do Robotics, home of finely crafted robots.

  When I'm not building robots I'm probably hiking the Colorado Rockies with my wife.

  Other interests include energy efficiency, sustainability, and unicycles.

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  • RoBeDoRobotics: Woohoo! A new vendor component may improve our hardware & software navigation implementation. Costs & deployment time should be lower too.
  • RoBeDoRobotics: Our robot site navigation solutions are continuing to advance. New techniques melded with ROS, Kinect and lasers sensors is going to rock!
  • RoBeDoRobotics: R2-D2 robotics is definitely fun... Now it's time to refine R2 activity roadmap.
  • RoBeDoRobotics: R2-D2 is soooo much fun and has so much personality. R2 robotics is gaining momentum thanks to a UPS delivery.
  • RoBeDoRobotics: It's time to add some true personality to my robotics... Seems an automated R2-D2 is the way to go. R2 has the ultimate robot personality.

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• Guy Kawasaki How To Change The World

  • Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK January 20, 2012
    Over the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and incre […]
    GuyKawasaki
  • Design a Sam Adams beer January 20, 2012
    Now this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored
    GuyKawasaki

• Seth Godin

  • Ad agencies don't run many ads for themselves February 23, 2012
    Spending money on your own account is a difficult psychological hurdle. Lots of small businesses get stuck in this chasm, happy to pitch, to network, to send out proposals and to work far into the night, but hesitate when it comes time to pay actual cash money for marketing, trade show booths or other sorts of media. For the bootstrapper, for the woman who h […]
    Seth Godin
  • Engaging with criticism February 22, 2012
    If you need to find out how your audience is receiving your work, it's worth considering how you've structured the interactions around criticism. Sometimes a customer has a one-off problem, a situation that is unique and a concern that has to be extinguished on the spot. More often, though, that feedback you're getting represents the way a hun […]
    Seth Godin

• Start-Up Guide

  • Effective Networking: What you need November 21, 2011
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  • Christmas Cards For Your Customers: A Great Business Decision November 18, 2011
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• Blogtrepreneur

  • 8 Keys for Work at Home Success
    Working your own hours in your pajamas whenever you feel like it and never having to leave your house – and being paid for it – sounds pretty fantastic to most people!  Unfortunately, working from home is not necessarily all that simple. Sure, there is the advantage of forever avoiding rush hour traffic, but there [...]
  • 5 SEO Musts that Even Developers Miss
    Web developers are the world’s gift to the Internet. The average, or even above-average, human being is incapable of creating a dynamic webpage out of thin air. Frankly, it can baffle even the most web savvy user; how do you actually make a webpage effective, attractive, and search friendly, all at the same time? Even [...]

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• Robots Dreams

  • 7th Annual Robot American Football Competition (Video) February 22, 2012
    I didn't manage to get down to Yokohama last weekend for the 7th Annual Robot American Football competition, but luckily my friend Patric was able to go and shared the video below.The Robot American Football initiative started seven years ago when FSI, a major Japanese software and systems developer, was looking for ways to re-energize [...]
    Lem
  • Technology Invades and Enhances Toys (Video) February 21, 2012
    Sharon Vinderline, the founder and CEO of Parent Tested Parent Approved was on The Morning Show with her selection of unique and sometimes groundbreaking toys from the 2012 New York Toy Fair. While some of the toys won't be that interesting for some readers, in the final third of the program (video below) she rolls [...]
    Lem
  • Romeo Robot Awakes (Video) February 20, 2012
    Project Romeo, driven primarily by Aldebaran Robotics with support from a host of other companies and organizations, released the first public video featuring the full sized humanoid robot greeting the world in much the same fashion as an initial computer program would say "Hello World!".  Via: Romeo robot caught on video for the first time | [...] […]
    Lem
  • Awesome “Alas poor Nao, I knew him well…” photo February 20, 2012
    Any fan or owner of the Nao humanoid robot from Aldebaran Robotics is going to absolutely want a wall poster or t-shirt with Dave Snowdon's "Alas poor Nao, I knew him well" image. I know I do.  
    Lem

• Robot News & Robotics Info

  • RB3D Hercule robotic exosceleton February 21, 2012
    Hercule is the name of this robotic exoskeleton developed by RB3D, a French engineering company, under the steering and funding of DGA, the French ministry of defense. Hercule doesn’t need any special training or knowledge skills, the person that wears it just performs his or her usual tasks and the exoskeleton provides the additional support and strength. I […]
  • A Unique Pop-up Origami Fabrication of Micro Robots February 17, 2012
    Harvard's Microrobotics Lab has created a new Pop-up Origami style of fabrication for their winged microbots. A carrier is first made out of several layers of carbon fiber, brass, and thin flexible plastic. Then, using fabrication techniques such as laser etching, a design forms and then it is popped into place in sort of a pop-up book and Origami fashi […]
  • Ryan Calo of Stanford Law School on personal robotics February 16, 2012
    Ryan Calo talks about personal robotics and their effect on society in two short videos produced by James Temple. Ryan Calo is the director of privacy and robotics at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and expert in robots and the law, subject which he actively blogs and tweets about. He was interviewed on Robots Podcast in 2010.
  • Robots Podcast #97: Carlo Ratti February 11, 2012
    Robots Podcast #97 (February 10th, 2012) features Carlo Ratti, Associate Professor of the Practice in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Director of MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory, discussing the lab's purpose and several of its projects, which include the Digital Water Pavilion installation in Spain, depicted in the composit […]

• Bot Junkie

  • Sebastian Thrun Will Teach You How to Build Your Own Self-Driving Car, For Free February 22, 2012
    Last August, Sebastian Thrun, the brains behind Google's self-driving cars and one of the world's top AI experts, offered an online version of Stanford's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course to absolutely anyone who wanted to take it, for free. It turned out to be just a little bit popular (over 150,000 students enrolled), and now Th […]
    Evan Ackerman
  • Truss-Climbing Robot Can Build Structures, Take Them Apart February 21, 2012
    Next time you need a new house, Cornell's Creative Machines Lab is betting that robots might have a hand (or lack of hands) in helping you build it. Like other climbing bots we've seen before, their "autonomous truss-structure modifying robot" is capable of clambering around three-dimensional structures, but with a twist: The robot can ad […]
    Evan Ackerman
  • DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style February 17, 2012
    In the movie Avatar, humans hooked themselves up to brain-machine-interface pods with which they could control giant genetically engineered human-alien hybrids. It's just a movie, but DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, doesn't care: It wants this kind of system to be real, just replace "giant genetically engineered huma […]
    Evan Ackerman
  • This Will Be Robonaut's New Job on the ISS, For Now February 16, 2012
    Evan Ackerman

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