Oekologie #8 Is Up!

By voltagegate on August 16, 2007.

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Cute robots on a mission (to prove that people are nice after all).

This is kind of cute. But also interesting since Kacie Kinzer, the artist responsible, asks: Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag…

Oekologie #8 Is Coming...

James from Direction not Destination is hosting Oekologie in three days, so get your submissions in now! We need hosts starting next February. If you're interested, shoot me an e-mail: thevoltagegate [at] gmail.com.

Say Hello to the New Doctor in Town

James (I should say Dr. James...) deserves some grats; he has officially finished his "PhD journey." Go over to Direction Not Destination and give him some props.

Robots!

I can't think of a way to relate this to physics, but it's just too cool not to share. In New York City there is an artist named Kacie Kinzer. She created small cardboard robots that can do precisely one thing - roll forward continuously. Well, that and look cute. Attached to these robots is a…

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