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Biomorphic Robotics 2007-09-08 20:25:52 Biomorphic robotics is a sub-discipline of robotics focused upon emulating the mechanics, sensor systems, computing structures and methodologies used by animals. In short, it is building robots inspired by the principles of biological systems.
One of the most prominent researchers in the field of biomorphic robotics has been Mark W. Tilden, who has taken Rodney Brooks’ theory of removing the world model from robots to a low hardware level not even using microprocessors. This is not to say the lack of microprocessors
makes something biomorphic - quite the contrary. There is a huge amount of work be done implementing biological nervous and neural networks into computing devices. Read the rest of this entry » Read more:Robotics
Robot Kinematics 2007-09-08 20:21:25 Robot kinematics is the study of the motion (kinematics) of robots. In a kinematic analysis the position, velocity and acceleration of all the links are calculated without considering the forces that cause this motion. The relationship between motion, and the associated forces and torques is studied in robot dynamics. One of the most active areas within robot kinematics is the screw theory.
Robot kinematics deals with aspects of redundancy, collision avoidance and singularity avoidance. While dealing with the kinematics used in the robots we deal each parts of the robot by assigning a frame of reference to it and hence a robot with many parts may have many individual frames assigned to each movable parts. For simplicity we deal with the single manipulator arm of the robot. Each frames are named systematically with numbers, for example the immovable base part of the manipulator is numbered 0, and the first link joined to the base is numbered 1, and the next link 2 and similarly till n Read more:Robot
What Is Cybernetics? 2007-09-29 20:07:51 Cybernetics was defined by Norbert Wiener, in his book of that title, as the study of control and communication in the animal and the machine. Stafford Beer called it the science of effective organization and Gordon Pask extended it to include information flows “in all media” from stars to brains. It includes the study of feedback, black boxes and derived concepts such as communication and control in living organisms, machines and organisations including self-organization. Its focus is how anything (digital, mechanical or biological) processes information, reacts to information, and changes or can be changed to better accomplish the first two tasks. A more philosophical definition, suggested in 1956 by Louis Couffignal, one of the pioneers of cybernetics, characterizes cybernetics as “the art of ensuring the efficacy of action”.
Overview
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Cognitive robotics 2007-09-29 20:06:35 Cognitive robotics (CR) is concerned with endowing robots with high-level cognitive capabilities to enable the achievement of complex goals in complex environments using limited computational resources.
Robotic cognitive capabilities include perception processing, attention allocation, anticipation, planning, reasoning about other agents, and reasoning about their own mental states. Robotic cognition embodies the behaviour of intelligent agents in the physical world (or a virtual world, in the case of simulated CR). Continue Reading » Read more:Cognitive
Photo Detectors 2008-01-01 08:01:13 Photosensors or photodetectors are sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy. There are several varieties:
Most optical detectors are quantum devices in which an individual photon produces a discrete effect.
* Chemical detectors, such as photographic plates, in which a silver halide molecule is split into an atom of metallic silver and a halogen atom. The photographic [...] Read more:Photo
LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2007-12-30 20:06:42 Sure, Mindstorms NXT is a toy, but it is an important toy, like a piano or a chemistry set. It’s one of those items that engages an imagination and possibly opens doors to new interests. Since our future is surely to be shared with robots–it’s already started happening, just look at Roomba–those robots will need, [...]
Students Hone Skills With Robotics 2007-12-30 20:03:03 PALMER - Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School had great success in its first robotics competition last spring and during this academic year the school will not only compete but also host the Massachusetts regional tournament.
It means a lot of work for electronics technology teacher Eric A. Duda, but he is up for it.
“The educational [...] Read more:Skills
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ABB Robotics/AFC Stamping and Production, Inc. 2007-12-30 19:55:56 AFC Stamping and Production
, Inc. produces finished components used in power sports and automotive applications, and automotive stampings that have welded components.
The Dayton, Ohio, company was established in 1989, and employs 100 people. It is a subsidiary of FC Industries, whose family of companies includes Barsplice Products Inc., AFC Tool Inc., Dayton Precision Punch and [...] Read more:Robotics
Politics and Robotics Choices 2007-12-30 19:49:34 Without strong public interest, Legislature could hold upper hand on project’s location
MONTGOMERY — If Alabama’s rumored tight finances let Gov. Bob Riley move forward with his dream robotics campus in 2008, an economist says a campus closest to Huntsville makes financial sense.
But political experts say you can’t leave the Legislature out of the equation if [...] Read more:Robotics
The Difference Between Stepper Motors, Servos, and RC Servos 2007-12-30 19:37:48 Stepper motors:
A stepper motor’s shaft has permanet magnets attached to it. Around the body of the motor is a series of coils that create a magnetic field that interacts with the permanet magnets. When these coils are turned on and off the magnetic field causes the rotor to move. As the coils [...] Read more:Motors
WowWee Robosapien Version 2 Humanoid Robot 2007-12-30 03:01:12 Robosapien Version 2 is the next generation of Robosapien technology and personality from Wowwee. This new member of the robotic family comes with more advanced dynamic motion, interactive sensors, new program functions, speech capability, and a personality all his own. It’s clear from the start that he enjoys bowling, dancing, and having conversations.
Movement
RobosapienV2 is able [...] Read more:Robot
Line Follower Sensor 2007-12-23 19:09:19 The circuit diagram for the Line Follow Sensor
board is shown below:
The board is connected directly to the Light IO board via PL4.
This circuit is very simple. +5V is applied via PL4 pin 4 to the circuit, and 0V is connected to pin 1 of PL4. When power [...] Read more:Follower
Line Tracking Robot Mouse Kit 2007-12-14 19:47:41 If you want to engineer a satellite tracking system someday, you have to start somewhere. How about learning circuitry with a Line-TrackingMouse
? This 6″ x 4-1/2″ robot has a transparent mouse-shaped plastic case over its electronics, making him almost 3″ tall. He has (3) photo interrupters that project infrared rays and distinguish between black [...] Read more:Robot
Why can’t American consumers handle the future that robotics is willing to offer? 2007-12-13 19:16:32 Someday the robots will rise up and kill us all. They’ll record our lives, obliterate our privacy, set off nuclear war, and eventually turn on us and eat our brains. If any of this ever did happen, it would serve us right. We, at least Americanconsumers
, don’t deserve the future that robots really have [...]
Future Of Consumer Robotics May Rest On Toy Dinosaur 2007-11-27 00:46:01 SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) — A small green and tan dinosaur slowly wandered across the table in an airy Emeryville, Calif., office space. As it plodded to the end of the table, one plastic hoof started to step off the ledge and instead it felt thin air. It slowly backed up and murmured a little [...] Read more:Consumer
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Waiakea High’s Robotics Team Captures First Place 2007-11-21 20:33:40 Waiakea High School’s robotics team this month took a first-place award in the 16th annual International Microbot competition held in Japan.
Facing off against several college teams from across Asia, students representing the Hilo school won the Fully Autonomous Micro Robot Maze Competition with a robot named Teeny Humuhumu.
The team took third place in the Micro [...] Read more:Robotics
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Robots - the Future of Eldercare 2007-11-21 19:19:12 Advances in technology have been astounding over the last decade. Electronics are starting to be built into everything from vacuums to toothbrushes and slowly, but surely, computers will become an invaluable part of every aspect of daily living. Someday, you’ll be able to take a shower and the bathroom will not only detect you, it [...] Read more:Future
FANUC Robotics and Flexicell Host Intelligent Robotic Applications Forum 2007-11-21 00:33:50 FANUC Robotic
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America, Inc. and Flexicell will demonstrate the latest intelligent robotic solutions for assembly, machine tending, picking, packing and palletizing at Flexicell?s facility in Ashland, VA, Nov. 28-29, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event will feature robot system demonstrations, interactive presentations, and breakout seminars on FANUC Robotics? new LR Mate 200iC LEAN (light, [...] Read more:Intelligent
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Students Conquer Roboting Challenges 2007-11-13 19:12:26 Today’s schoolchildren are getting a healthy dose of robotics — the newest of the three Rs — in an effort to inspire more American students to pursue careers in engineering, science, technology and math.
In Galveston County, schoolchildren as young as 6 and as old as 18 are meeting after school to design, build and program [...]
Innovation First Brings Robotics to the Classroom 2007-11-10 19:06:17 With robotics playing an ever more integral role in STEM education, InnovationFirst
, the company behind a wide range of robotics initiatives, has launched a new online resource targeted directly toward K-12 and post-secondary education.
Innovation First provides robotics programs to about 140,000 students around the world (making up about 12,000 teams), and just last month [...] Read more:Robotics
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Adept Technology Extends Robotics Distribution Into Brazil 2007-11-10 18:25:10 Adept Technology
Extends Robotics
Distribution Into Brazil
LIVERMORE, Calif.CA-ADEPT-TECHNOLOGY
Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), the leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with MAR Industries to distribute the company?s full product line in Brazil. The relationship between the companies accelerates Adept?s distribution strategy and provides customers [...]
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