2008-03-16 22:07 - Meet Phobot!
Once there was a very scared little robot, whose name was Phobot.
Scared as he was, he participated in a big contest filled with other robots!
He went to HRI 2008, and finally overcame his fears,
and made the crowd give great cheers!
The last few weeks I've been playing with Lego. This is not something new, as I've been doing this since I was three. However, this time I've been playing in order to participate in the student design contest at the 3rd ACM/IEEE conference on Human-Robot Interaction !
We designed Phobot, a small very phobic robot, programmed to be scared of other robots. Scared as he was he managed to win the hearts of the crowd, and gave us the first price! Wow! That wasn't something I ever expected to do with playing Lego :-)
More information, including video's taken during the conference to follow soon! For now, here's the video of our beta version:
Visit the phobot hyve for more information. I've also posted some pictures in the the HRI2008 Flickr group. More pictures are on Brickshelf! Oh and Phobot even reached the news! :-)
More to follow!
Update: here's the first video of our Phobot at the HRI 2008 conference!
Update: Visit the Official Phobot site!
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Congratulations! Eindhoven's possy is proud of you!!!
by Vesna - 2 years, 5 months ago.