Archive for Robot Programming
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Development of Adaptive Behavior in Robots
There is a new experiment done by some researchers. They developed small, mobile robots that are controlled by onboard neural networks capable of learning. Multiple experiments are done and they found out that robots evolved complex behavioral patters such as homing, co-adaptation of brains and ...
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Pneumatic Powered Robot Walks with Oxygen-Tubing Legs
A robot that walks with 24 hospital oxygen-tubing legs was built by Monica Anderson and has won two first prizes, Best demo and best presentation. This robot’s leg is controlled by a Mac Mini using Emacs and C (GCC) are the programming software. It took Monica 5 weekends to completely build th...
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DARPA Wants A Bigger BigDog
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has just awarded a $32 million dollar contract to Boston Dynamics to create a bigger Bigdog. Last year, we met Boston Dynamics BigDog and he was quite efficient as an army companion. However, DARPA announced this year that they wanted a bigge...
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Wall Climbing Robots Do More by Amir Shapiro
In the previous article, we featured a wall climbing robot that's able to climb up a freely configurable wall unassisted. But as I did further research on these types of robots, I've realized how new robots could climb on either a smooth or a rough wall surfaces without having to configure their pat...
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Nano-Robotic Arm Places Atoms and Molecules with 100% Accuracy and Precision
Manufactured products are basically made of atoms, and structures of these products depend on how the atoms are arranged. For example, if one rearranges atoms in coal, it will form into diamond. This concept is called nanotechnology. It uses positioning and assembly of atoms in order to create m...
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Japanese Fish Robots Teach Children About Marine Life
A marine biologist and ecologist came up with the idea of creating miniature marine life robots in order to broaden the learning of school children about sea life. Japan is famous for its diverse selection of tropical fish. In fact they are the first ones to breed several kinds of aquarium fish l...
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Walking Robot Changes Gaits Autonomously
A mechanism called "chaos control" enables a simple robot to switch its gaits spontaneously and autonomously. Scientists from the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen, the Physics Department of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynami...
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CES 2010: Parrot’s A.R. Quadricopter Drone Controlled by iPhone
You see the one that's not in the shelf gets the most attention. Seen flying over the heads of the journalist was the Quadricopter Drone developed by Parrot. The quadricopter is also part of the CES 2010 show, and to get noticed, this UAV, being controlled by an iPhone or iPod, has to fly around...
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Biomimetics: Creating the Model for the First Legged Robot To Run Effortlessly
Getting inspiration from nature, make better robots. Scientiically referred to as Biomimetics, it has become a major engineering strategy to develop robots that act and react like insects. Insects, particularly, cockroaches are nauseating and are most feared for its appearance. But Biomim...
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Autonomous Surgical Robot Finds and Removes Shrapnels
One of the most remarkable medical advances today are surgical robots that do guide and even help surgeons perform critical operations with ease of excellence. I am so amazed at how these robots are able to do such critical, flesh-invasive tasks with little or no intervention from surgeons. Like ...
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International Robot Exhibit 2009 in Tokyo, Japan
The 2009 International Robot Exhibit or IREX was a huge success. The annual event was held last November 25-28, 2009 at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center or popularly known as the Tokyo Big Sight. IREX 2009 was participated by various robot manufacturers, engineers, scientists and even e...