The next thing in robotics
Spotted this follow-up article on the Scratchbot covered here several months ago. In this update, the robot is showing off its abilities to search-out objects by touch. No vision system is used. This is a very novel approach and could have many search and rescue applications where the lack of light is an issue. Check…
For your Thanksgiving weekend, here is another robotic turkey. This one is intended to stop poachers looking for a free bird. These robotic turkeys can be remotely controlled or even programmed to move on their own. Of course, there are other robotic animals to entice the illegal hunters. In addition to turkeys, there are robotic deer,…
Robotic turkeys need not worry about ending up on someone's Thanksgiving table. There is not much meat on those legs and the bird is just a bit tough to chew. I found this old article on a robotic turkey when I did a search for a Thanksgiving topic for RobotNext. So, in keeping with my…
This is a cool project by the people at Festo. They actually built a robotic penguin that uses a type of 3D sonar to help orient itself in the water. The penguins are built and programmed so well that they can communicate between themselves to avoid collisions. The most interesting thing about it is that…
"The bee, whose brain is a tiny as a sesame seed, already has better navigation abilities than even our best robots.” So says University of Queensland School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering head, Professor Janet Wiles. The scientists at this university are working to make robots able to navigate their surroundings by learning the…
Arduino is a open source hobbyist micro-controller used to make just about any device you can think of. "It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments." – Arduino Photo Credit: Arduino So, I did some looking around and…
Here’s an interesting application for those old Roombas: Adapt them to play a life-sized version of an old video game. Some college students have done just that at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They say this was intended to showoff some software the students had developed for another application. I think it was just…
From Tech Fragments comes this story about autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs). These robots will be developed to deploy as a swarm and would be coordinated so they can follow the flow of the ocean currents. Scientists hope to use the ball-shaped robots to measure ocean currents and from these measurements track such things as pollution…
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Arthur C. Clarke brought this idea to the forefront in his 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise", but the idea dates back to 1895 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed “a free-standing tower reaching from the surface of Earth to geostationary orbit.” Over the years, the idea has gone from impossible to a competition to build a…
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