Posts Tagged Robotics
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Adept Technology Ships First USDA Accepted Parallel Robot
Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), a leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, has already launched the first of its USDA-accepted robots. The Adept Quattro s650HS is the industry’s only USDA-accepted parallel robot available for meat and poultry p...
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Segway RMP bots used for sniper target practice
These target bots from Marathon Robotics, have Segway RMP bases with half-mannequins on top that respond to being shot by toppling over. The robots are programmed to wander around randomly, and when one goes down, the rest scatter. This unique system was designed in conjunction with the Australi...
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Berkeley’s PR2 Robot Performs Simple Folding
UC Berkeley's own Assistant Professor, Pieter Abbeel has developed a household robot that will definitely offer a great help at home. What it does? Simple folding of towels. To us humans, it may seem easy, but mind you when you several clothes or towels to fold, it may be tiresome or may not lik...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...