Brand new and polished right out of the oil bath, R2 responds to your voice commands, and even has a cupholder! What more would you want from an astromech?
Here is another good R2D2, this time a lot cheaper than the Nikko one, at about $100. I like the voice recognition which seems to be working well.
Battle 1 Flepser vs Bamm Bamm
There have been previous ‘Robot Wars’ in the Netherlands, but they are not shooting this anymore as far as I know. I think it is all a bit sad, that this is the first thing that comes to mind when we think of robot games. I would much rather prefer games that show of the skill of the programmers. Stuff that creates an effect that is magical, and makes you think ‘wow, how did they do that?’
But I must confess that I find this kind of demolition derby quite entertaining, I just can’t help myself.
It would be great to revive the idea of ‘Robot Games’ in the Netherlands. I know they were organized by TNO, my future employer, together with people from the TU Delft, my current employer. But the last one was a while ago, in 2005 (here). I also found the game rules (here).
You would have to do this together with a number of people and set up an organisation that can host these events regularly, not every once in a while. Perhaps some big gaming hall that can use the extra crowd it brings, maybe some people that are interested in robot publicity, maybe some technical university interested in exciting future students for robot topics, and then some researchers (like me) who are interested in what people find entertaining in robots.
If we organise it, they will come!
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