Archive for Robot Programming
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NASA All Set for 2010 FIRST Kick-off
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency or NASA is all geared-up for the 2010 FIRST Robotics design and build competition which will kick-off on Saturday, January 9, 2010. FIRST was first founded in Manchester, NH back in 1989 with Dean Kamer as the founder. FIRST started its robotics competiti...
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Biomimetics: Creating Robots from the Real Thing
Biomimetic is a field of robotic engineering primarily focused on developing nature-inspired robots. Biomimetic robots are designed to mimic or copy biological insects or animals' movements, functions and appearance. Biomimetic is somewhat new to the field of robotics, such that it's contribution...
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Robotic Arm Performs Surgery on a Beating Heart
Heart surgery will never be the same again! Thanks to a team of French researchers who have developed a computer model of a beating heart that guides the robotic arm to perform a heart surgery with very little invasions. Researchers at France's Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and...
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Robotic POP’s eye, Perception On Purpose
Perception on Purpose (POP) researchers from Europe attempted to integrate the two major sensory disciplines to a robotic head. In the process of development, the technology has taken the robot to a new level, combining data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. C...
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Absent-Minded Robot Replicates Human Forgetfulness
"I think I forgot something" is usually what we hear everyday from people of different ages, people who have "normal" memory mishaps. Yet, in the world of science, robots have memory losses also. Scientists created a robot that could recall important pieces of information from the large volume of da...
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New Military Spy-Bat, A Tiny Disguise
Pentagon's research arm DARPA is into continuous innovation for miniature technologies that will be used as spies for actual military operations. The project costing $10 million dollar for the five-year development program of creating tiny electronic gadgets or robots intended only for military use ...
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NASA’s Superbot Is A “Real Transformer”
Remember the "Transformers" fictitious characters like Megatron and Optimus Prime? They have the abilities to quickly transform into a ten-wheeler truck or a trailer. Well, this motion picture has finally come to the real world. "Real transformers" are actually here. NASA's Superbot is the "real ...
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Pentagon to Deploy Autonomous Fighting Robots in Battlefields
It looks like we're gearing towards robotic warfare! Have you seen the movie "District 9"?, although the bad guys were aliens, the concept of robotic war is evident. That was fiction though. In real life, more than 5000 lethal and nonlethal robots, with remote human intervention have already...
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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
Microsoft's Robotics Platform Have you overheard people talking about Microsoft’s Robotics Platform and perhaps you’re wondering what all the excitement is about? Maybe you’ve read a little bit about it already and you’re currently seeking more information. No problem! I’ll be more than...
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FREE WILL: Who’s Will and Why are We Freeing him?
Amanda H asked: I was watching a video on youtube that made me think maybe... "Choices" that you make in life are not really your choices. Your decisions are only based on your own personal experiences. Everything you do is just the product of some other "choice" that you made that was the product...
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10 points! is there a program/software that will do my voice soind T-Pain like?
El Preppy Chico asked: in recording a song and i want my voice to sound like T-Pains... u know that robot voice like... thanks.... for taking the timeUltimate Guide To Baby Gender Selection ...