I hope many of you are not really into this whole robot hype. Technology is leading us to a future where we are going walk into a company or a fair and be received by a machine that is suposed to help us find our way and give us the atention needed.

Just like these call systems that already drive us nuts when all we really want is a human beeing to pick up the phone, Robots are really going to make our lives miserable. And then there is this whole facination with robots playing bad soccer at the “Robot Cup” etc…

The only cool use I can think for a robot is the one of flying around me and my friends while we ride our bikes, skateboards, snowboards, kites…. shooting cool videos at insane perspectives. I am starting to gather information about institutes that are researching about microflying robots, maybe some of us will get together for the design of one.

The first thing I would recommend to take a look ist the Delfly Project from the Technical University Delft. Other examples are welcomed.