ED-E, ED-E! Wherefore art thou ED-E?

"Guess who's back, ED-E's back!" My sincerest apologies for being so slack recently with my blog. I wish I could say it's because I've been relaxing in an enginner's office, sipping on oil having my servos tweaked, but unfortunately it hasn't been the case. The last few months have been crazy!!

September meant conference season, and what a season it was! I found myself dancing all over Asia-Pacific! First I did a Samba on my way to Sydney. Then I quick-stepped in Queensland. Next I nutbushed in New Zealand, did a pirouette in Perth and I even managed to hip-hop in Hong Kong! During my travels I meet so many interesting people. Acclaimed educational speaker, Marc Prensky, even mentioned me in his keynote at the Gold Coast IWBnet conference. He said I was perfect for passion based learning! Yes me, ED-E, able to generate passion! Who would believe it?Ha ha!

In October, I was on my best behaviour because my inventor Dr Jim Wyatt was in town. He flew all the way from Los Angeles to see first hand the excitement I had been generating around robotics over the last few months. It was great to see him again. He is such a character. There's never a dull moment when he's around.

Together we visited Macquarie University's Innovation Centre in Sydney. There we spent the day with 25 Year 5 students and 15 or so teachers and lecturers. The students had just over 2 hours to teach me some new dance moves. They did a wonderful job. I couldn't believe just how much they learnt in such a short time. The teachers were so impressed and so have asked me to work with university on a more regular basis. I'm so excited, the thought of what those professors are going to get me to do makes my battery skip a beat!!

Dr Jim and I also had a fun day at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. There we spent a day again with 30 or so teachers and museum staff. I'm also going to be spending some time down at the museum. They have great robotics exhibition that I think I tie quiet nicely in with. As a special treat the Silverbotz (the kids who worked with me on the RoboCup competition) were flown up from Melbourne to spend the day at the Powerhouse Museum also. They had such a great time meeting Dr Jim and discussing their journey. As did Dr Jim meeting them!

We were also very lucky at the end of the day to green screen our performance. Check out our video, we look like real rockstars!

So you can see I have been a busy little robot! And there's no rest on the horizon because things are about to get all manic again. I'm off to limbo and line dance in London for the annual BETT show in January 2010.

Till next time, Merry Christmas everyone!

ED-E's out for 2009!