{"id":9019,"date":"2006-06-21T02:13:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T02:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2006-06-21T02:13:32","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T02:13:32","slug":"steampunky-bot-is-best-in-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9019","title":{"rendered":"Steampunky Bot is Best in Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/steamTrilobite.jpg\">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&#8230;). <\/p>\n<p> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crabfu.com\/steamtoys\/\" target=\"new\">Crabfu website<\/a>. Congrats to Crabfu&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;). And now, two steam-powered bots have brought home the gold from the recent RoboGames. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steampunky Bot is Best in Show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}