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Comments on Marubot Robot Football League
Okay, so the robot football players are not very big. Full-size robot football players must surely follow. (Read
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| "Back to the future!(not the movies)
In 1986 Nolan Bushnell and the Woz set up a company to create take video games out of the box... literaly! RC robots with infra-red lasers duking it out in your living room. It's so hard to find evidence of their effort today, it's tempting to think Woz wrote a worm to erase all records of this from the net. I can conjure up in my mind the exact publicity photo I saw in the paper 20 years ago, but I can't find a picture of their robots today. Here's a small mention: http://www.i-programmer.info/history/8-people/310-nolan-bushnell.html
The idea failed back then, but Moore's law means you can buy such toys for next to nothing today: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/7485/" (Yossi Preminger 9/24/2009 2:40:40 AM) |
| "Success!
Bushnell and Woz's company was called Axlon... http://www.geocities.com/androbot.geo/axlon.html
And here are the robots:
http://www.geocities.com/androbot.geo/techforce.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/androbot.geo/axlon-techforce.jpg
" (Yossi Preminger 9/24/2009 3:03:32 AM) |
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