Archive for Servos

  • Robot Wall AWE Transforms Itself To Your Interests Robot Wall AWE Transforms Itself To Your Interests

    Last January, the annual IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems was filled with new innovations and intelligent systems that promises to deliver pleasure to the makers and clients alike. Among the video presentations, one that caught the eyes of the media researchers ...

  • DARPA Wants A Bigger BigDog 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...

  • Goodbye Spirit. Go Opportunity! Goodbye Spirit. Go Opportunity!

    Just recently, NASA made their official announcement to leave NASA's Mars Rover Spirit, after painstakingly doing everything to pull her up from the sand. Remember Spirit? no, not the horse, but NASA's mobile Mars Rover which after six long years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, co...

  • Bioloid, An Autonomous Climbing Robot Bioloid, An Autonomous Climbing Robot

    If you think this is another kid's toy robot, think again and watch the videos below to see how a student assembled this kind of robot that accurately finds its way to climb up a freely configurable wall. This one is a bioloid. A Bioloid is a very powerful system from Robotis. It is basically an ...

  • Japanese Fish Robots Teach Children About Marine Life 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...

  • Israeli Unmanned Medevac Vehicle- AirMule, Test Successful Israeli Unmanned Medevac Vehicle- AirMule, Test Successful

    Urban Aeronautics, an Israeli company has successfully hover tested AirMule, an Unmanned Medevac Vehicle, a highly potential war vehicles in future wars. I've never seen like this. And it feels like we are becoming one with the Star Wars saga! Urban's AirMule is just one of those fiction movie...

  • International Robot Exhibit 2009 in Tokyo, Japan 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...

  • Robotics help: stronger motors? Robotics help: stronger motors?

    I Am Blashyrkh asked: I am a kinetic sculptor and I want to create a light following robot that walks. The mechanics for the walking are not new to me but the robotics/programming stuff definitely is. Ive been trying to figure out how to build everything and everything i find is for tiny little micr...

  • T-MAX 2.5 and water. Why is electric preferred for mudding and driving through water rather than Nitro? T-MAX 2.5 and water. Why is electric preferred for mudding and driving through water rather than Nitro?

    rulekeeper30 asked: OK I'm the guy who likes to take his toys through mud and water and all kinds of crap. Is there any waterproof servos I can buy or do I just need to use silicone? I've taken it through allot of water and stuff without screwing up anything but I know I'm going too at some point. E...

  • Very basic robotics question?

    dont_forget_harry asked: i have a microcontroller (BasicX-24p) http://www.superrobotica.com/Images/S310205big.JPG a torque board/super servo controller (Srv8T) http://www.basicx.com/Products/servo/SB8T1.gif and a stand size power servo (YM2762) which items connect to each other and also how do th...

  • what should a pet robot have?

    Sam B asked: i want to build a pet robot and i am not sure if i should build a robot dog or a robotic turtle. also i would like the suggestionss of the yahoo community on what realistic features the robot should have not any fantasy like feature. i would also like to make it have the features like ...