I have to admit, the first time I heard of Twitter I didn’t quite understand the purpose. I’m not entirely sure that I understand it now, but I do use and enjoy twitter. I have had fun searching out and finding interesting people to follow and converse with. Most of the GeekDads are now active on Twitter and we share comments about posts, pointers to cool resources, and converse with many readers and fellow geeks.

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I had slowly built up a “Robots” group in TweetDeck and Ken’s 100 Geeks to Follow post got me thinking that I should do a similar post, but limit it to robot geeks. Since then I’ve expanded the list to 52 mostly interesting and not too redundant robot geeks who tweet. I found a few people through Twitter’s oft-broken search feature, but most of them were discovered via word of tweet, or from links on blogs I already read. There appear to be an infinite number of spam bots, twitterbots, auto-follow robots, and other tools adding noise to the “robot” keyword. Even when search was working well I’d get 100 script-bot tweets for every real robot tweet.

So here’s my list of 52 robot geeks. I have included a mix of individuals, blogs, robotics teams, companies and stores. Then to round out the list I tossed in a few things we don’t often think of as robots: CNC machines and 3D printers. I have also included a number of FRC teams. FRC is an acronym for FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST is an acronym for the Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.

This list is far from complete, so please feel free to recommend more in the comments. We at GeekDad are considering adding some directory pages that may include lists like this one.

Name Twitter ID Robot Cred AIMEC:3 AIMEC_Robot A REAL Robot being developed at the MABB’s lab in the UK Shawn Augustson ArduinoFun Arduino robots and more, good projects for the kids. BattleBots battlebots Does this one really need a description? FRC-1515 BHrobotics1515 Beverly Hills High School Robotics team #1515 (FRC). BotJunkie BotJunkie The official BotJunkie.com Twitter feed for live event coverage and other roboty stuff Bre Pettis bre Maker of the makerbot and overall fan of robots, suspected of affiliating with @ResistSkynet