For Building DIY Droids, It Helps to Live In Japan
destinyland writes “Want to build a robot this summer? ‘Robot-loving Japanese are tinkering with screwdrivers and motors instead of heading to the beach,’ and this article identifies the stores and sites serving robot hobbyists. Several sites are actually selling leftover industrial robots, but there’s a variety of smaller-size robot vendors, from Tokyo’s Vstone Robot Center to Carl’s Electronics in Oakland (which sells sound-activated ‘Hydradzoids’ and solar-powered robots that crawl). Hasbro even sells their own functioning R2-D2 droid with real sonar navigation and a ‘voice recognition response module.'”
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