The very cute and the very scary robots of Maker Faire
This is Vincent. He's a Meccanoid G15 personal robot from Meccano, the same people who made the erector set.
He normally doesn't come with a suit though. He and his buddy stand about 2 feet tall.
Their bigger brothers are the Meccanoid G15KS. They're about 4-feet tall, or about the size of most of the kids who played with them. Verdict: Cute.
Robot Resurrection looks really cute. He's made 95 percent out of airplane parts and is very photogenic.
Until you realize that Robot Resurrection is 28-feet tall and can spit fire from his hands. Verdict: Scary
Mira loves to play Peek-a-boo. She uses face-tracking to lock onto someone and turn green. When you cover your eyes and then make the Peek-a-boo motion, she can recognize that and starts turning multiple colors. Verdict: Cute.
Straight out of your nightmares, this Megabot towers at 15-feet tall and has room for two humans inside to man the controls.
Controls that allow it do things like shoot paint at a car. Verdict: Scary
This two-wheeled robot is a balancing android robot by Al Bencomo. It uses a smartphone to help it keep its balance and move around. Verdict: Cute
Intel brought spider robots.
A whole army of spider robots. Verdict: Scary.
This one doesn't have a name, but its small size made it a pro at zipping around the floors of Maker Faire. Verdict: Cute and tiny
Caw the Crowbot and Homer the Homegrown Humanoid are just two members of a robotic dance group that perform with a death metal band.
Rocky the Pirate is also known to jam to death metal as part of the Black Mast group. Verdict: Scary talented dancers.
But since this was Maker Faire, the robots did a little bit of fighting. The giant fork bot excelled at flipping the two smaller bots right off the sides. Verdict: Cute and scary.
Most robots can do a lot more than be cute or scary.
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