Truly Freaky Robot

It's amazing what Japan keeps on coming up with where robots are concerned. The most recent one is the CB2 child robot.

Youtube won't allow me to embed this into my blog, so you gotta click here to watch that thing in motion. And you ought to. This is really truly scary.

FLL competition

Today was the FLL Hong Kong competition. Overall, I think the teams this year performed better than last year's set: I guess that the added year's experience made a difference.

Having said that, I think that it'll be a long time before any of the Hong Kong teams achieves anything like this. This is a US high school team from New Hampshire that managed to achieve an amazing 400 points on the Robotics Challenge portion. Their robot even went and changed its own parts. Absolutely amazing.