Solar powered BEAM Robots

Discovered via Boing Boing

Branwyn explains how to build this beautiful twin-enginer solar-powered robot that rollsOver at Street Tech, BB buddy (and old-school bOING bOING contributing editor) Gareth around on a pair of hard disk platters.

The Flickr collection of the robocritter is just plain cool. The Wikipedia entry on BEAM robotics explains a lot about the field and the original article at Steet Tech shows how to get your own.
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