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Rbots.net is a news website created by Roger Arrick and Steve Rainwater focused on robotics, AI and related topics. Here is a bit about the history.
In the '90s I purchased the Robots.net domain name for an unknown future project. In 2000 Steve and I came up with an idea to create a news site just for robotics and use the name.
Steve used mod_virgule project code to handle the content and hosted it at his place in Dallas.
I donated the Robot Menu content from Robotics.com which was a website where robot builders could display their creations. Here's what the Robot Menu looked like before being moved to Robots.net. See PDF.
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Swirling Brain (Jim) was a regular poster throughout the years and created some comics too.
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Yearly we tried to do an article with robot-related Christmas gift ideas and here is the one for 2005. See PDF.
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In April of 2010 we interviewed Pat Metheny for his Orchestrion project at his Dallas show.
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At one point Robots.net received 200,000+ hits a month.
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Eventually we moved on to other projects, traffic died down, and in 2019 the domain name was sold off. It remains a news site as of this writing.