The Western Canadian Robot Games is quickly approaching! May 10 & 11; SAIT Heart Building. Solarbotics will be there again, sponsoring (among other things) our own SolarSpeeder race. Aim your solarspeeder through a 4" gap in a wall 8 feet away, and win a ScoutWalker II kit! No registration required - just come on down […]
Minor Additions and New Links
Dave Hrynkiw
September 14, 2000
Boy, there's work to do on new websites. Link checking, spell checking, image links - all sorts of crap that doesn't have anything to do directly with robots! Even so, we've been able to put up a few new images of Mark Tilden's "Projectorbots" on the Photovores page. Yuck. Must do something about how hard it is to add new images to this databaseÂ…
Other than that, there's a pair of new links on the links subpage. One is for the Discover Magazine article called "Biobots", which is sample from the new book "Robo Sapiens" by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio. The other is for a technical web page from the Los Alamos National Laboratories, which details the work of Jan Frigo and Mark Tilden on the Satbotproject.
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