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Rampax is from a series of six 5" plastic robots made by CGGC in Italy. They were sold in kit form and had to be assembled. I don’t know when they were first produced, but I was given the individually boxed Rampax in 1985.
The six robots were not completely different, but shared components such as arms, legs and feet. These pieces were all interchangeable and it seems that some were randomly packed out, so the makeup of specific robots was inconsistent. Each robot had two distinct, spring launched weapons. The long weapon for the bent right arm protruded from the elbow and hooked in place; pushing up on the hook launched the weapon. The left arm had a mechanism in the shoulder that held the weapon in place while the arm was down, but launched the devise when the arm was raised.
The robots were also distributed in France by a company named Remus, which sold them in two sets of three. The French packaging was quite different from the Italian boxes that I’ve seen, but the plastic parts were still molded in Italy. Again, I have no idea of the original time line for these, but I obtained an incomplete set in 1991.
Five of the robots - Drakis, Torang, Fergus, Argon and Rampax - kept their names for both Italian and French issues. The sixth one, originally Satan in Italy, was renamed Mirox in France. I guess that the French didn’t want kids playing with the devil.
The weedy little cartoon legs on the first version had to go. Spent another three hours this morning putting Zeke on steroids. Better?
the Phillipine lego Users group (Phlug) is having a event called mech wars where factions battle it out for supremacy.but i cant go in the event cuz i live in the south and majority of the members lived in the northern part of our country so im just posting it here
CIA's Office of Advanced Technologies and Programs developed the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) fish to study aquatic robot technology. The UUV fish contains a pressure hull, ballast system, and communications system in the body and a propulsion system in the tail. It is controlled by a wireless line-of-sight radio handset.
For more information on CIA history and this artifact please visit www.cia.gov
Ok um this is a bunny robot
I made the head like a month ago and firday i desiced to do the body , took me like 4-5 hours to do the body xD was so hard
Yet not satisfied! i shouldnt made it robotish! should have been a normal cute plushie , but then again its a good try xD next time no robot , or maybe no body just head keychain or something
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Things I </3 about it is that.. its tooo flixibal and was supposed to be stiff =.= i blame the robotic arms and legs lol.
To end it all, here is a smattering of leftover pictures. There are still more robots though, as apparently we are moving into Transformers Week next...
This robot was a bit creepy because it always turned its head in the direction someones face was. It felt much more personal by trying to advertise to you by looking with it's cute big eyes into your from down there.
(Originally published at: jeena.net/photos/351)
At a research meeting at Leeds University. We had a chance to play on the daVinci robot that used to be used for surgical applications. These are the "surgical fingers" of the device with a training plate. the operator is in the background.
ESA astronaut candidate Raphaël Liégeois from Belgium during a robotics session as part of his basic astronaut training at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre, near Cologne, Germany.
The first building block of International Space Station robotics training in the curriculum of ESA’s 2022 astronaut candidate class is called GRAVI-T training.
During this session, they delve into generic robotic training, focusing on learning how to manipulate the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
Robotic arms on the Station are used to grab and berth cargo vessels such as Japan’s HTV and the Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus. They can also help astronauts during spacewalks by moving an astronaut strapped to the end of the arm to hard-to-reach places on the outside of the International Space Station. It can even replace a spacewalk altogether.
Under the supervision of instructors at the Astronaut Centre, the candidates use the Dynamic Skills Trainer, a console training tool, to operate the robotic arm within a simulated environment.
In addition, the astronaut candidates undergo virtual reality sessions to gain a better understanding of the 17-metre-long robotic arm's operations aboard the Station.
ESA’s newest class of astronauts, including Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Marco Sieber, and Raphaël, commenced basic astronaut training in April 2023. The group was selected in November 2022.
The one-year training provides an overall familiarisation and training in various areas, such as spacecraft systems, spacewalking, flight engineering, robotics and life support systems. They go through survival and medical training before receiving ESA astronaut certification in spring this year.
After certification, they will move on to the next phases of pre-assignment and mission-specific training, paving the way for future missions to the International Space Station and beyond.
Credits: ESA
52 Week Challenge - Week 18 - Street Art
Catching up on missed prompts. This was taken in downtown Augusta, Georgia
From www.boingboing.net/2008/04/18/celebrity-robot-tee.html
Robot annotations from the comments of the BB post.
It was designed to work as a messenger but the emergence of technologies such as email or instant messaging made it a useless robot. Now we are reprogramming it to act as a pet.
It does not have mechanical arms so we are not sure how it can bring the newspaper to its owner. On the other hand it will never bite the slippers
Believe it or not. This mech actually started off about three years ago. My short attention span got the best of me and I ended up scraping it. Fortunately, I was smart enough to take reference photos in case I wanted to take another stab at it in the future.
Technically, it is the future. So I rebuilt it! The original idea behind this build was to design the strangest looking bipedal walker I could come up with.
With the GLaDOS-like head hanging below the body and those cooky legs. This ended up being a pretty weird looking machine. It was also quite challenging getting the balance right. He's rather wobbly at times.
This is just the first of a handful of reboots I've got planned. I went through my old photos and found a bunch of both finished and unfinished MOCs that I'd love to update. Stay tuned!
A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people
when they lie.
He decides to test it out at dinner one night.
The father asks his son what he did that afternoon.
Th e son says, "I did some schoolwork."
The robot slaps the son.
The son says, "Ok, Ok. I was at a friend's house
watching movies."
Dad asks, "What movie did you watch?"
Son says, "Toy Story."
The robot slaps the son.
Son says, "Ok, Ok, we were watching porn."
Dad says, "What? At your age I didn't even know what porn was."
The robot slaps the father.
Mom laughs and says, "Well, he certainly is your son."
The robot slaps the mother.
Robot for sale.
My humanoid robot that used to play in the office is now entering retirement at the Computer History Museum. She would shuffle cups and Hot Wheels, and the programming was performed by simply moving the arms to perform the desired tasks.
I called her Robot Dawn. She was the very first sale for Rodney Brooks’ Rethink Robotics.
And now, after my donation to CHM, they sent me a sneak peek from an upcoming publication of theirs.