Servo - November 2015

11.2015

VOL. 13 NO. 11

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4 SERVO 11.2015

06 Mind/Iron

Robotic Engineers vs.

Experimentalists

14 New Products

20 Events Calendar

20 Showcase

64 SERVO Webstore

80 RoboLinks

80 Advertiser’s Index

07 Robytes by Jeff and Jenn Eckert Stimulating Robot Tidbits

• Sucking Up Flies

• LOCUST Swarm Coming

• Origami Bot Folds Itself

• Stay at the Weird

• USA vs. the Rising Sun?

10 GeerHead by David Geer

ALAN, the Android Kit

This modular kit to make your own personalized android head uses off-the-shelf components, and can be shared with a wide field of builders, academics, and robot enthusiasts.

74 Then and Now by Tom Carroll Why are Robots so Hard to Develop? Between limitations in technology and a misperceived concept by the public at large about what robots should be able to do is the core frustration of almost every robot builder.