How to make an edible robot
We just couldn't pass up showing you this how-to video from Carnegie Mellon University's Robot 250 program.
As part of the lead-up to Pittsburgh's 250-year anniversary--a city with strong roots in robotics--the Heinz Foundation, Intel and the Grable Foundation are sponsoring a series of events from Carnegie Mellon to educate citizens on robotics and their city's robotic heritage.
In addition to opening up robot-building to students for education, average citizens and artists have been invited to participate in various events that will run through 2009.
The robotic cucumber hand comes from an event hosted by a CMU computer scientist, Maya, a design consultancy and technology research lab, and the Mattress Factory, a Pittsburgh contemporary art museum, as part of the Community Open Studios component of Robot 250.
In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot. E-mail her at candacelombardi@gmail.com. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET. 
