When we started blogging about steam-power robots a while back, they seemed little more than a cool curiosity. But we keep seeing builders showing off new steam-powered creations (okay, so many of them are from the same guy, but still…).
And now, two steam-powered bots have brought home the gold from the recent RoboGames. The Trilobite Tank (pictured left) won gold in the Best in Show category, while the Steam Walker got a gold medal in the Kinetic Artbots category. Images of both bots in action can be seen on the Crabfu website. Congrats to Crabfu’s I-Wei Huang on the victory. BTW, we recommend watching the NBC Tech Now vid linked from his site for background on this fascinating hardware hacker.