http://blog.orbswarm.com Kinetic art: autonomous spherical robots exhibiting complex motion Wed, 14 May 2008 01:30:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The push for Autonomy continues! The plan is that SWARM will be dancing -on its own- at Burning Man at the end of August. That means GPS and inertial measurement systems will work with control software and dance software to.... well... DANCE! Here's an abbreviated update that we recently sent to Lady Bee: -------------------------------------------------- Late ... http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/05/11/burning-man-update/ SWARM rolled on in to the 2008 Coachella Music and Arts festival and had a great time! You can find media mentions on Hack-a-Day and Wired. Photo sets on JDV's Flickr, Lee's blog here and here, and Marc's site! And especially our SWARM In the Media wiki page. http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/05/11/coachella-2008/ We brought the orbs out to Yuri's Night. People really liked them. Read about it in Engadget, CNet and Laughing Squid. :-) http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/04/14/yuris-night-rocked/ SWARM is a kinetic art work consisting of multiple semi-autonomous spherical robots ("Orbs") that roll under their own power. Each has a spherical shell 30 inches in diameter: roughly waist high to an adult. Orb shells were computer-designed and cut from a flat plate of aluminum, then welded together to ... http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/04/04/what-is-swarm/ Jon Foote has been playing with Blender and made this... He writes: I had a few minutes to play with Solidworks, which is pretty awesome, from my experience with the first tutorial. I took the opportunity to export the shell model into VRML, which can be read by Blender. Blender is an ... http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/03/19/is-it-live-or-blender/ I know we haven't been keeping you peeps updated nearly enough. Let me make it up to you... we're going to (at least) THREE shindigs soon! First up, we're going to Yuri's Night at NASA Ames (http://sf.yurisnight.net/) Saturday April 12th from 2pm-2am!! They're so excited to see us that ... http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/03/18/upcoming-orb-rolls/ From Coreyfro: While NASA is still bragging about teleoperated robots such as DEXTRE, DARPA continues to push the boundaries on autonomous robotics. That's because NASA nerds (or, well, two of us here at Ames, and technically, I'm a contractor) make autonomous robots for fun in our free ... http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/03/18/yuris-night/ There is a tentative agreement for SWARM to attend the Coachella music festival this April  25-27th in Southern California! More info as it becomes available! http://blog.orbswarm.com/2008/01/18/swarm-to-perform-at-coachella/ Here’s some SWARM Glamour Shots that Mark Alexander shot. It’s mid-August at the Box Shop http://blog.orbswarm.com/2007/11/29/swarm-glamour-shots/ The machine art community in the Bay Area is one of the most vibrant scenes in the world. We've benefited enormously from our talented friends and colleagues in the area. Now it's time to give back: we will be appearing on two consecutive nights at the SomArts gallery, to ... http://blog.orbswarm.com/2007/11/14/more-swarmy-goodness-on-the-way/