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Robot ate my homework

Readers of this blog know how much I dig robots (my various posts).

So it's no wonder I'm loving this recent fun cartoon from Channel Frederator.

(disclosure: yep, we are investors in Next New Networks, the creators of Channel Frederator and many more networks)

Androids vs Humanoids

Interesting article that discusses whether future consumer robots should be androids or humanoids.

Maybe I've been watching too much Battlestar Galactica lately (is that even possible?) but I'm thinking androids all the way.

Robots (continued)

Very cool robot.

This is going to be really interesting when robots like this are $399 in retail and are connected to the internet.

Toy Fair - NYC

Last week my partner Santo told me about the American International Toy Fair taking place in NYC. The show ends tomorrow.

I tried to rearrange my schedule to make at least one day but I'm going to miss it. I'm bummed.

Looks like there was some great stuff shown at the event. I've been seeing (& buying) a bunch of internet connected toys lately. Social networks connected to physical toys. Powerful combination.

Online Video Quality

The team at N3 (creators of Channel Frederator, VODCars and more coming soon) launched a blog recently. I really like Herb's latest post about online video quality. (I also like that Herb is a fellow Ramones fan). I thought his quality post was spot on.

Readers of this blog know I'm a fan of robots. Here's a cartoon from Channel Frederator called "The Secret Life of Robots". I think it's hilarious.

Autonomous Helicopter

I continue my fascination with robot toys. I saw some great stuff yesterday.

Separately I saw my good friend Andy Rubin yesterday as well. He's at google these days working on something amazing but his (serious) hobby is robots. He showed me some killer things including his latest creation, an autonomous helicopter. He built the hw and sw. Check out the video here (high res video takes awhile to load).

Billg likes robots too.

I've blogged about robots before. I'm super excited about how they will positively impact our lives.

Bill Gates wrote an article in the current issue of Scientific American and also available online. As you might expect the title of the article is A Robot in Every Home. He believes that the emergence of the robotics industry is developing in much the same way that the computer business did 30 years ago.

Terrific article with insightful perspective.

Worth a read.