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Scorpions have bad eyesight, and some just wait patiently for food to stumble in front of them. It can be a long wait. Some scorpions go a year between meals.

For our LEGO NXT robot scorpion, we used the ultrasonic sensor to sense the proximity of food, and it seemed appropriate to have it hunt in an infinite loop. (Short video)

15 responses to “Scorpion Robot”

  1. ooooh-yaaaaa!!!

    excellent – looks like an i-Pod protection encasement mechanism. one could simply put real venom in the stinger, place it around one’s neck, and stroll confidently around notoriously kleptomaniacal neighbourhoods in complete confidence.

  2. Nice Lego "animatronic" : ) I just discovered all your uploaded videos Steve. ( one.revver.com/account/show/jurvetson )
    I loved the Rockets videos, the crazy electric car etc…Nice : )

    Ainsi que la video and Bluegene animation : "Blue Brain Fly Through"
    Was it at the Almanden conference 2006:Cognitive Computing ?

  3. Loved the sting in the video! 🙂

  4. biotron: when iPods dream of becoming Transformers…

    photonquantique: Oui. Blue Brain and oher uploads

  5. is it poisonous 😉

  6. Looks great! it reminds me of Nintendo’s (long over due for a comeback) R.O.B.

  7. Cool stuff, and a great video 🙂

  8. Very good and cool pictures. I wish I have one.
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/31290736@N07/2932048004/]

  9. Hi, I’m an admin for a group called http://www.flickr.com/groups/1361821@N25/, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

  10. Doing an article on these.. and am going to feature your photo. would you like a link back?

  11. Hi, I used this photo here: photographicdictionary.com/r/robot

    Thanks for sharing with a CC license!

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