A Review of the Best Robots of 2008


	A Review of the Best Robots of 2008
Mohir
1-13-2009 10:25 AM
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Robot innovation continued its relentless advances during 2008. In this post we would like to showcase some of our favorite robots and robot videos of the last year or so. This review is heavily slanted to consumer robots and research robots.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/742bdd2a-abd7-45b0-9825-2aa3116a9a18/91BBBF7D-0BD9-4BF3-B0F4-064449B9C194/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://singularityhub.com/2009/01/12/a-review-of-the-best-robots-of-2008/" href="http://singularityhub.com/2009/01/12/a-review-of-the-best-robots-of-2008/" style="font-size: 11px;">singularityhub.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://singularityhub.com/2009/01/12/a-review-of-the-best-robots-of-2008/"><SPAN>Humanoid:</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://singularityhub.com/2009/01/12/a-review-of-the-best-robots-of-2008/"><P>Earlier we <A href="http://singularityhub.com/2008/07/22/nao-robot-the-next-generation-in-commercial-robots/" linkindex="11" set="yes">reviewed</A> the nao robot from <A href="http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/eng/" linkindex="12">Aldebaran Robotics</A> here at the hub and this robot is just totally awesome.  The nao robot is the official robot for this year’s <A href="http://www.robocup.org/" linkindex="13" set="yes">robocup</A> in China:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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