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RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2013-07-03T09:43:45+01:00

Good luck!

Statistics: Posted by konglong — Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:43 am

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-12-03T14:28:17+01:00

Looks like a great time!

Statistics: Posted by Vanessa — Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:28 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-03-01T12:43:03+01:00

I wonder how things would've gone if the RN1 had cartwheeled down the track instead...

Statistics: Posted by PaulL — Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:43 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-15T20:49:59+01:00

Pssst, over here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7QMsj6oWzA

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Statistics: Posted by Orac — Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:49 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-15T09:50:51+01:00

Hi all,

The filming was great fun, mixed in with lots of waiting. Although I was a bit disappointed with the length of the Robot Race feature, at least we got the Bioloid and the Manoi with some coverage at the end.

I am sure that the robot race will appear on Youtube shortly

Not much in the way of photos from me

Orac

Statistics: Posted by Orac — Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:50 am

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-15T00:00:27+01:00

Channel5 have the 2 minute Robot Race with the winning Bioloid GP on their site. Unfortunately it will only stream to UK IP addresses.
http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/c ... robot-race

Statistics: Posted by limor — Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:00 am

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-14T22:39:10+01:00

The Bioloid GP is available for pre-ordering

Statistics: Posted by limor — Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:39 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-14T23:39:21+01:00

25 minutes after the show ended and google has already indexed at least two sites that host a link to some other site where the episode can be downloaded.

The robot race is around minute 21. Very entertaining.

Statistics: Posted by limor — Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:27 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-11T14:56:37+01:00

The lovely Pollyanna wanted to thank RoboSavvy for bringing along all the robots and making it all happen.

Statistics: Posted by limor — Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:56 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-10T10:30:14+01:00

i will look forward to seeing the carnage the lawn-mower robot caused ha ha.

Statistics: Posted by Traull — Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:30 am

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-10T02:09:47+01:00

tempusmaster wrote:
As they say in show business, "Break a leg."

Thanks for reminding me of this mishap back in 2006 in a radio station in Compenhagen. I was there near the camera playing with the remote control when the RN1 flipped over the table edge by mistake.

Statistics: Posted by limor — Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:09 am

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-14T16:55:18+01:00

[update 14Feb: I was kindly requested to remove a couple of pictures. Hopefully they can be reinstated after the show is aired tonight]

First, apologies for incorrectly using BBC5 in the title. It is Channel-5, not BBC.

We arrived at the Manchester science museum this morning at 9am and were there till around 6pm. The whole studio was set up inside the main hall of the museum. I never knew how involved it was to set up such a TV show. There were 2 huge vans full of equipment outside, about 20 crew members, 5 cameras, and from around 2pm there was an audience of 300 people that were very effectively controlled by the production team.
The Gadget Show presenters spent the whole morning rehearsing. Every shot, look, crack, move, laugh and most of the text was pre-scripted and usually required at least 2-3 takes.
You would think when watching TV that these guys just stand there and look pretty. This may be true for in-studio celebrity talk-shows but this Gadget Show filming was nothing like i had imagined. These guys and girls work hard getting everything perfect (in the eyes of the producer who was constantly commanding everyone on set through their ear-pieces which made the presenters look like there were being interrupted by an invisible deity some of the time).

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They had an aquarium with piranhas and the 2nd tallest guy in UK and some guys that were building Kevlar protection pouches for their iphones and explosions and gadgets..

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The race was on uneven concrete floor which prevented most humanoids from walking properly.
RoboSavvy team had KHR3, Bioloid comprehensive, Bioloid GP (brought in from Korea for the show), Orac's Manoi, Robobuilder.
The robot race was composed of a cacophony of 40 odd moving contraptions some of them remote controlled some vaccuum cleaners, a massive lawn-mower robot (that later on caused havoc by stampeding over hapless robots on the track) and even a custom autonomous car for a Robonova (built by Active-Robots team ).

We (roboteers) were stationed behind the makeshift studio in a back-room charging batteries and ensuring the remotes work.

We realized few days before the show that we didn't have the standard remote control for KHR3 in the office so Nuno improvised a solution with an Arduino. More of that in a separate thread.

Eventually we won the race... Ofcourse.
Suzi (one of the presenters) is here holding the Bioloid GP robot for a victory full frontal shot.

The episode will air on Monday at 8pm. Previous episodes of the show are available to non-UK IP addresses via torrent so hopefully by Tuesday this episode to be available too.

Statistics: Posted by limor — Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:01 am

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-09T18:07:38+01:00

SK wrote:
Have some fun The Dribblers' appearance on the Gadget Show can be seen here:
http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/o ... t-football
(At least in some places outside germany, I only get a "video not available in your country" warning).

Same warning message appears here in Japan when I try to watch it.

Statistics: Posted by tempusmaster — Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:07 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-09T17:52:37+01:00

Have some fun The Dribblers' appearance on the Gadget Show can be seen here:
http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/o ... t-football
(At least in some places outside germany, I only get a "video not available in your country" warning).

Statistics: Posted by SK — Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:52 pm

RoboSavvy humanoids @ BBC5 The Gadget Show

2011-02-09T16:55:09+01:00

As they say in show business, "Break a leg."

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Statistics: Posted by tempusmaster — Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:55 pm