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At Mobile World Congress 2012, Ericsson and LEGO Mindstorm partnered up in Hall 6 at The Social Web of Things and gave visitors a glimpse of what the future might look like if you had your very own R2D2. have a look here LEGO robots at ericsson mobile world event and see " snatcher " at work. visit the show: February 27 to March 1 at La Fira – hall 6, Barcelona, Spain Martyn

I recently filmed the Snatcher (building instructions in the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book ) at one of the events I was attending, and thought it would be fun to share this video with you. In this video you'll see the Snatcher running the program as presented in the book: autonomously looking for an object, grabbing it and lifting it.

Xander over at 'I'd rather be building robots' has made a nice modification to Laurens' 'Snatcher' robot.  He added pneumatic valves to operate both the gripper and lifter, and used the Mindsensors and Dexter sensors to control all the fiddly parts. More details (including pics) -  http://mightor.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-pneuma-snatcher/ -- Damien Kee www.damienkee.com