Posts Tagged Robotics

  • Cube Stormer: A LEGO Robot Breaks Rubiks World Record in 5 seconds! Cube Stormer: A LEGO Robot Breaks Rubiks World Record in 5 seconds!

    From a world record of 7 seconds to solve the rubiks cube by a human, the new record to be challenged is the incredible 2 second-speed by a LEGO Robot. Cube Stormer is an all-LEGO robot developed by Mike Dobson, also known as the Robotics Solutions. The robot is capable of solving a 3x3x3 rubiks ...

  • Micro-Helicopter Smart Flyfire Swarm to Create Giant 3D Display Micro-Helicopter Smart Flyfire Swarm to Create Giant 3D Display

    Creating gigantic 3D displays is an art that all artists do in a matter of days or months. But a swarm of flyfires can actually do 3D displays instantaneously and magnificently. These swarm of smart flyfires are actually micro-helicopters as tiny as a 5 inches, but can literally synchronize thems...

  • Biomimetics: Creating Robots from the Real Thing 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...

  • Robotic Arm Performs Surgery on a Beating Heart 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...

  • Absent-Minded Robot Replicates Human Forgetfulness 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...

  • Robot Repair Shop Helps Keep Troops Safe Robot Repair Shop Helps Keep Troops Safe

    A few Soldiers, Marines and civilians work with equipment right out of the pages of yesterday's science fiction when they keep a fleet of robots in the fight at the Joint Robotics Repair Detachment, or JRRD, located at Victory Base Complex in Baghdad, Iraq. They range in size from a few pounds to...

  • 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...

  • 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 next after C++?

    Abdulrahman S asked: Hello. I know that to understand AI and Robotics you need to learn C++. What program do I need to learn to be able to programme a Robot? I need the next steps to go ahead.Pick The Gender Of Your Baby ...

  • Good School for Masters in Artificial Intelligence ?

    RedFirst asked: Looing for a good MS program in Artificial Intelligence (not robotics but I'm more interested in data mining, machine learning and neural networks). I have a BA Math/Comp Sci from a top20 school and want to go to another reputable school for the MS. Suggestions? Thanks a lot!Pick ...