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David Buckley: The History of Robots

David Buckley has been producing robots and animatronic systems for over a quarter century and building robots for much longer, here are some details about some of the projects he was involved in, and robots he has built. For reports on past robot meetings see Robotsystems. All new robots are of course photographed digitally, but he has  a great number of slides and prints of my robots and others at various exhibitions including The First Personal Robot Exposition and Congress in 1984 (be part of the beginning) which he started to scan and put on his site.

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Parallax: BoE-Bot Robot Kit

Parallax, Inc. is a privately held company located in Rocklin, California. Parallax designs and manufactures microcontroller development tools and small single-board computers that are used by electronic engineers, educational institutions, and hobbyists. Our current product line consists of BASIC Stamp & Propeller Chip microcontrollers and development software, SX chips and programmers/debuggers, project boards, sensors, educational tools, robotics kits and accessories, and Propeller chips and tools. The ever-popular Boe-Bot Robot Full Kit (serial version) is our most complete reprogrammable robot kit. 

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LEGO Mindstorms

The Lego Mindstorms NXT software enables you to program your NXT robotic invention and upload your programs to the NXT via USB or Bluetooth connectivity. The intuitive Mac and PC compatible drag and drop software, powered by National Instruments LabVIEW, comes with building instructions and programming guides to easily begin constructing and programming with Mindstorms NXT.

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BigDog

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight. BigDog is the Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth.