Posts Tagged Wheels

  • Kitchen Cleaning Robot, Readybot is a Major Domo Kitchen Cleaning Robot, Readybot is a Major Domo

    The newest development of Readybot Challenge is a robot that is capable of cleaning your kitchen. This robot has two human-sized arms. It can do many routines such as dumping leftovers in the trash can and loading dishwashers. The developers of the robot said that the robot can perform up to 40%...

  • Biomimetics: Climbing Robots Use Whegs Biomimetics: Climbing Robots Use Whegs

    Researchers at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab or the Biomimetics Lab, developed the Whegs series. Case Western Reserve University used both wheels and legs to create Whegs robots, mini-Whegs, and climbing mini-Whegs. The robots move freely at a relatively high speed and climb over obstacl...

  • Wall Climbing Robots Do More by Amir Shapiro 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...

  • 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...

  • Surrogate Robot Takes Your Place At Work Surrogate Robot Takes Your Place At Work

    There are days when you feel like your going to be sick if you go to the office, or you just don't want to get out of bed because of some health reasons. And these are the days when you want to hire the services of a robotic surrogate to take your place at work. Mountain View, California-based An...

  • building a mini-sumo. please help?

    ghetto393 asked: im building a mini-sumo...like robot wars....what should i build my robot out off? it cant be destructive....im getting graded on craftmanship....any ideas for the wheels?? taking them off toy cars...making them...caps...??? please helpUltimate Guide To Baby Gender Selection ...

  • Ghosts in circuits?

    R Y Khan asked: I have problems with ghosts being found in my electrics circuits. Everytime I build a robot, with it's wheels, gearboxs and microchips, all ready connected and programmed, I end up finding ghosts, the main concern is that they always change the directions of my motors spinning in th...

  • how do I make a switch to decide between two RC radio frequencies?

    armorsmith42 asked: I am creating a remote controlled 'robot' (for a sumo bots competition if you care). The rules state that the sumobot must be able to be controlled from two different frequencies. Otherwise, if the competetors were to choose the same frequency, they would interfere in each other'...