His name is Diego-san and he is an android infant developed by the Institute for Neural Computation’s Machine Perception Laboratory, based in the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit). The lab is funded by the National Science Foundation. For the hardware, the lab collaborated with Kokoro Co. Ltd. and […]
Robots are increasingly coming out of the lab and taking their place in the public sphere. Industrial Perception, Inc. (IPI) is one of them and the company is focused on producing mainstream robots in order to be used in America’s manufacturing and logistics. A team of software engineers from a robotics research company, Willow Garage, […]
Lego Mindstorms was known as the first of the smart toys when it was unleashed in 1998. Lego releases the new generation of MindStorms in order to make younger generations acquainted with building robots and programming applications. The new Mindstorms EV3 is developed in three years by an international team consisting of designers from Europe […]
In the capital city of Turkey, Ankara, one of the biggest robotics competitions of Eastern Europe and Middle East will take place in March 2013. Middle East Technical University (METU) Robotics Society, founded in 2000, will organize this event for the 13th time this year. METU, is one of the biggest universities in Turkey and […]
Here is a project done at University of Illinois, which uses smartphones and irobot vacuum cleaner robots, in order to do painting for a predetermined shape. One robot is given the task of being central robot which coordinates other robots and each unit communicate with each other using smart phones. In the video, once a […]
One of the major problems with solar farms is that the static nature of panels cause a portion of the sunlight to be captured at less than optimum angles thereby reducing the output of the Solar Plant. Robotic Solar Panel tracking system manufactured by Qbotix is an autonomous and dynamic system designed to maximize Solar […]
A new autonomous flying robot has been developed by the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. The robot is able to avoid obstacles totally by itself, without any human guidance. It produces a 3D map of its environment and then locate the obstacles within the map. Autonomously locating the obstacles while flying has a main […]
• Introduction Since the beginning of industrial revolution, people always dreamed of newer and better machines doing tasks that could not be done at the time. When we first got introduced to radio, we wondered if one day we would be able to also see those people speaking on the radio too. When we first […]
It would be considered a game changer if you had a flying robot that could relay information to you from anywhere you want, at the same time being undetectable by people, because of looking like a natural insect. Well, now you have it. The dragonfly robot, developed by TechJect Inc. is a flying robot insect […]