Penguin Robot Society PRS
The world's first Penguin Robot Society was established by Humanoido in 2007. However, the server in China was far too slow in bandwidth. To gain new faster server speed, two years later on September 16th, 2009, a partnership was formed with computer and software expert Vittorio Rossi. The result of his outstanding website design and expertise, and the speed of the server in Italy, led to a really great PRS site, seen at left.
With information dating back to 2005, The Penguin Robot Bible was the first private official website, developed by Humanoido, cover page seen at left.
LEFT: this Penguin Robot Society logo was established by Humanoido
Story in Penguin Tech Magazine Issue 3
by Humanoido
Prior to the PRS Penguin Robot Society, Humanoido created a website named the Penguin Bible. The goal was to include new and interesting info about the Penguin Robot.
PENGUIN ROBOT SOCIETY: PRS, founded in 2007 by Humanoido is a society of robot enthusiasts who share ideas, projects and information about the Parallax Penguin Robot. To become a member, or for more information, send an email about your Penguin Robot interests to Humanoido. Stay tuned as we plan to put up the PRS web site for access to Penguin Robot Society information.
HISTORICAL
Humanoido established the first Penguin Robot Society website in 2007. It was later detached and a partnership was established with Vrossi (Vittorio Rossi) in September 2009, who I met at the Parallax Forum. He offered to make a PRS webpage on a fast server, initially hosting my Penguin Robot projects, programming and content.
Humanoido established the first Penguin Robot Society website in 2007. It was later detached and a partnership was established with Vrossi (Vittorio Rossi) in September 2009, who I met at the Parallax Forum. He offered to make a PRS webpage on a fast server, initially hosting my Penguin Robot projects, programming and content.
Vittorio Rossi placed the PRS webpage on his own company server. Advertising from his company eventually appeared to help support the web presence. The domain was left to expire nine years later on September 11th, 2017, when Vrossi ended his consulting job and closed all his servers.
Establishing permanent web presence is a challenge. Vrossi made an outstanding Penguin robot wiki which was deleted by a Wiki administrator on September 2, 2016. We quickly learned that Wiki is rewriting history by deleting it. In addition to Penguin robot, a quick check shows Wiki also deleted iSobot, Robonova and other historical humanoids that led to great evolution in robotics.
I established a Penguin Robot Society PRS presence in Yahoo Groups where members shared postings, new software and information. It was very successful however some time later Yahoo decided to delete their groups and all the information disappeared.
Even PC computers were not cooperating. I had Penguin robot information backed up onto a PC server which crashed and all the hard drives had files eaten by a worm.
At this time, I purchased large Google website space and a domain, and began posting Penguin Robot content there. It has since evolved into a Penguin section on my fourth website which is dedicated to robots. I will keep all my websites active and all the information will likely remain available until my passing.
Outdated Link for the Yahoo Robot Group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/toddler_robot/
All PRS email addresses were deleted by Yahoo.
penguin.robot@yahoo.com
The New Penguin Robot Society
We now bring the historical Parallax Penguin Robot into the year 2021 and establish future upgrades, and offer a collection of all the information currently available to bring the Parallax Penguin Robot back to life!
October 8, 2008
Check out the back cover of Penguin Tech Magazine issue number three for this story about the Penguin Robot webpage. It led to the website for the Penguin Robot Society hosting all the Penguin Robot software programs and projects developed by Humanoido at that time. The website shown below was developed with a partnership of Humanoido in Beijing China and Vittorio Rossi in Italy. Placing the CMS site in Italy was to establish speeds higher that what was available in China at the time.
