Archive for Oktober 2011
Bomb Patrol in Afghanistan Uses a Robot to Blow Up an IED
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You have probably seen or heard of bomb squad people before, but have you heard that they use robots to blow up the IED's. TALON is the name of the robot that the bomb squad in the video used. This robot is equipped with tank like treads, an arm with strong servos, and multiple cameras. The treads allow this bot to easily move over rough terrain. The arm sets off the bomb, and the cameras let the bomb squad men see the what kind of bomb they have found (of course, without going up close to it). TALON job to ensure that no bomb blows up and wounds or even kills a person. Thanks for reading and check out the video above to see TALON do his dangerous task!
Personal review of hexbug nano
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NAO robot can now beg for money
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Info source: video above
Real Steel movie review
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A few days ago I went to the movies to see "Real Steel," and its the newest movie on robots. In the beginning its starts off and at great pace, and it has scenes showing the bots right away. Later on the fights get bigger and better, but in the end the main character's bot has to fight with the strongest bot in the league. Below are some of the reasons why I like it.
- good actors
- great CGI
- action all around
- not to slow, but well paced
- has fighting robots
- good non-predictable ending
- great movie all around
- language
- violence
- dialogue (a little bit)
Cool FANUC robot can label objects
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Category robots related
Bioloid robotic kit reviewed by generalgeek314
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Category DIY bots
Cool montage of robotics
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Robo-Roundup #29
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This weeks roundup features some very interesting robot posts, and I hope you like them!
1. The IROS 2011 Expo: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/iros-2011-expo-gallery
2. This robot is a pro at jenga: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/robot-masters-jenga-next-the-world
4. Coo new chinese robots can play ping-pong:
http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=30472
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!
How to fix your hexbug larva if it doesn't work
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Category domestic
Robotics in 30 years
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What is BEAM Robotics
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Maybe some of you have already heard about BEAM Robotics. For those who don't know exactly what a BEAM robot is I'll explain it to you in this post.
BEAM stands for:B-iologyE-lectronicsA-estheticsM-echanics
Common robots use a programmable microcontroller, which means some kind of computer, to make decisions. The more complex the behaviour of the robot the more complex the program in the microcontroller. Anyone who has already had some experience programming a robot can acknowledge this. With every new task the robot has to perform the complexity of the robot rises exponentially. It gets harder and harder to find and fix errors and to make the robot respond properly to its environment. Most developers would simply put much more effort into the "brain" of a robot to accomplish their goal. But the principle of BEAM offers another solution: Make the robot simpler by removing the microcontroller and use minimalist electronics instead. The results are much cheaper robots that can perform the same task even more efficiently than the microcontroller based ones. Another advantage of BEAM robots are that anyone can build one without even spending (much) money. The parts are easily available by reusing old components out of technoscrap. If you want to build a robot with a very simple behaviour "the common way" you'd probably spend about 50$ to 100$. If build a BEAM bot you might simply be able to do it for free. So if you want to know more about BEAM Robotics the following sites offer excellent information:"http://www.solarbotics.net/"Solarbotics"http://www.beam-wiki.org/">BEAM Wiki. Special thanks to BEAM Robotik for writing the post and his website is http://beam-robotik.blogspot.com/ !
Category DIY bots
Lego NXT goes solar
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Category DIY bots