Well, not exactly. But Make has a piece on their site about some Microsoft engineers that were showing off these BEAM robots at the Maker Faire. Apparently, the Big Soft encouraged all of its engineers with “Make-style hobbies” to show off some of the ol’ corporate joie de vivre at the annual geek-country faire. Several engineers brought photovore BEAMbots, and extremely cool ones at that. Here’s a link to some video footage of the sun-worshipping little automatons (the robots, not the MS engineers!). You can also find some macro shots here.
And, be sure to check out the website of VJ DeLeon, one of the bot-building engineers. He’s got some very juicey stuff here, including most of the info and diagrams you’d need to build the types of BEAMbots seen here. If you successfully build the two solarengine-based bot projects I have in Make No. 6, a bot like this, especially VJ’s FredFly (right), might be a suitable next project.