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 Three innovative companies have teamed up to provide us with a competition in innovation. iRobot, Tom’s Hardware Guide and Instructables are jointly running the robot invention contest.
iRobot create robots to do tasks from the dull – such as the Roomba vacuum
cleaning robot the company is famous for – to the dangerous, such as
bomb diffusion. “Robots,” says Helen Greiner, co-founder and
chairperson of the company, “spark the creative juices of
people…because we all have dull, dirty or dangerous tasks that we would
rather delegate to a robot.”
Tom’s Hardware Guide is
a fascinating site which, as long as we ladies aren’t put off by all
the black and blue square man-styling, could tell us how to build our
own computers with incredible specs, fix our motherboards and know one
CPU from another, among many, *many* other hardware details.
Instructables is much
friendlier, though, with colourful and welcoming instructions on
everything from turning IKEA lamps into a chandelier, to playing MP3s
through a good old cassette player.
A quick look through any of these sites will leave you bursting with
ideas, primed and ready to enter the competition. After quite a bit of
digging and clicking through all three sites, I found the competition rules. You have to buy the Create Kit from
iRobot and programme it to do something innovative, which is a little
bit of a scam because you have to pay them $129 for the privilege. But
there are scholarships available to cover that cost, and you could win
$5,000 if your robot is impressive enough!
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