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Read moreA Japanese robotics team dominated the field after an ambitious two-day competition that saw robots driving cars, climbing ladders and wielding power tools. A two-legged robot built by engineers at SCHAFT Inc., a Japanese robotics firm, won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials(Dec. 21), scoring the most points across tasks that tested the robots’ mobility, dexterity, perception and autonomous operations. Florida-based…
Read moreCooking is an art sometimes forgotten in the robotics world, but James, the PR2 robot, and Rosie, another robot from CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) in Munich have joined forces to show that robots can be of great use in the kitchen as well. They made some pretty successful-looking pancakes and used various tools around the Assisted Kitchen to show off their skills.…
Read moreLast we heard from Hoaloha Robotics was back in September of 2010, when the company was initially founded by Microsoft veteran Tandy Trower, who’d led the Microsoft Robotics Group for several years. According to some press at the time, Hoaloha was all about “developing a common interface and software that will make assistive robots easy to use and customize with applications, similar to…
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I wanna introduce tiny jumping robot which can find room for a tail. I was impressed because of how tiny it was, but also because it could change direction, self-right, and jump, all using just one single motor and a clever arrangement of gears. A new upgrade (inspired by research from UC Berkely) adds a tail to the mix, giving this…
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source: http://www.pointclouds.org We tested an algorithm, developed by Alex Trevor in the previous HRI code sprint. This algorithm segments points using their normal distribution, this makes it very sensitive to noise. Basically, this algorithm computes a disparity for a stereo pair using its own dense matching method, implemented by Federico Tombari. But I additionally tested it using disparity maps precomputed by HRI. Here…
Read moreSource : IEEE Spectrum I want to introduce tiny autopilot. It looks like a bug. Below posted By Philip E. Ross Researchers in the Netherlands have designed a thumbnail-size autopilot system that they say is the lightest in the world, at just 1.9 grams. That should free up a fair amount of carrying capacity for the micro air vehicles (MAVs) that…
Read moreSource : http://en.akihabaranews.com/ Honda’s Walking Assist with Stride Management: Coming to a Hospital Near You! If, that is, you’re connected to one of 50 Japanese medical institutions now testing and evaluating a pair of the semi-robotic exoskeletal assistive devices. Honda breaks down the what’s-it-do-and-how as follows: “The [Walking Assist Device’s] control computer activates motors based on information obtained from hip…
Read moreJPL has developed an ape-like robot ‘RoboSimian’ for the DRC(DARPA Robotics Challenge). Watch it. SOURCE : IEEE SPECTRUM POST by Evan Ackerman http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/watch-jpls-robosimian-do-pullups RoboSimian will use its four general purpose limbs and hands, capable of both mobility and manipulation, to achieve passively stable stances; create multi-point anchored connections to supports such as ladders, railings, and stair treads; and…
Read moreI found interesting robot which is made by 3D-Printing. Source : adafruit.com Right now, all over the world, 3D printing hackers and robotics enthusiasts are printing their own Open Source sub-$1k, life-size humanoid robot from the inMoov project created by gael langevin (known on Thingiverse as hairygael). In fact, for many weeks one frequent participant in Adafruit Google+ Community, Zviad…
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