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Two of the most critical success factors in the manufacturing industry are time to deployment and cycle time. Despite this, the design and deployment of robotic workcells has long remained a surprisingly manual and time-consuming process. Realtime Robotics is aiming to change that with Resolver, a cloud-based optimization engine that introduces industrial-scale automation into the earliest stages of robotic system planning. At its core, Resolver addresses some of the most persistent engineering challenges in workcell design: motion planning, robot task allocation, target sequence optimization, and layout validation. Traditionally, these steps require iterative tweaking, deep domain expertise, and a significant investment of time and resources to get right and be able […] Read More

Gille Monte Ruici is a French artist, based in Paris, He builds sculptures, essentially robots, exclusively using recycled scrap metal parts. He finds his materials in trash cans, in the street, or in second hand trades. His approach gives these scraps a second life and repurposes them. He invents and makes unusual constructions. All the assemblies are done with screws or bolts. Metal is ideal, he likes the material, easy to work with particular reflections, differently patinated, which are harmonized easily. Why metal? Because more and more products of our daily life are made of plastic, these assemblages actually use objects from an earlier era that mark our memories, that encourage […] Read More

Here is a new swarm robot study from University of Toronto. Video by: http://cimlab.mie.utoronto.ca/   Read More

Here is a kickstarter campaign, for cleaning hulls of ships underwater. The robot can clean about 1.5 meter square per minute. The project can be viewed here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/632307707/the-first-underwater-drone-for-the-care-of-your-hu?ref=user_menu https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/632307707/the-first-underwater-drone-for-the-care-of-your-hu?ref=user_menu   Robotic Magazine’s note for Kickstarter campaigns: Publishing a campaign here does not mean Robotic Magazine endorses or verifies the project. We publish at the request of project creators. Please check the project website for more info about the project. Read More

Here is a kickstarter campaign for an open source wifi programmer for arduino. See the link to the campaign by clicking here Note: Publishing a kickstarter campaign does not mean Robotic Magazine endorses or verifies the project. We are publishing at the request of project creator. Please check project website. Read More

Here is a kickstarter campaign for an educational circuit kit for kids. * See the link to the campaign by clicking here Also see the project website here: http://www.R2Pv1.com/ *Note: Publishing does not mean we endorse or verify the project. We are publishing at the request of project creator. Please check project site. Read More

Do it yourself from A to Z. Present you a diode  laser etching of a PCB. Author: George I Fomitchev Founder of Endurance Website: www.EnduranceRobots.com www.EnduranceLasers.com Photo credits: www.endurancelasers.com 3D-printers have opened endless possibilities for home production and rapid prototyping. Now you can easily create practically any model in a 3D-program and 3D print it. But until now, only few people have thought about the possibility to 3D print electronics for this or that solution (model). Up to this day to make a circuit board for a prototype one had to pore over it with a soldering iron or to order a short production run. However, many of us can […] Read More

Endurance robotics startup that was originally from Russia opened an office in the US, Naples, Florida and started to distribute their robot DIY SelfieBot for free.   Endurance claims that they want to help young people especially students to jump into robotics.   Endurance is bringing robotics to high school and colleges for free. As far as George Fomitchev (founder of a startup) says that they opened all codes sources and schematic so any student can reproduce the DIY SelfieBot on campus or at home. DIY SelfieBot (because of Do-It-Yourself) is a tool for students to make own robot based on prepared  tutorials and guidance. Endurance tries to make it […] Read More

Explore a collection of DIY robotics tutorials Learn how to steer the robots using a PlayStation controller, pan and tilt camera to capture and stream video wirelessly, and to use laser-mapping techniques. Developed by Gumstix Co-Op student, William Phan, featuring the iRobot Create 2, the Neato XV Signature Robot Vacuum and the Kobuki TurtleBot 2 Robot. Quadcopter – Build, Fly, Stream Developed in conjunction with Stanford University graduate students Robbie Bunge and Andrew C. Smith, the new Aerocore 250 Overo expansion board was specifically designed for smaller, more nimble quadcopters and provides a cost effective platform for building a lightweight UAV. Pair it with a Pre-GO series of GPS boards […] Read More

Article By: Carlos Ferreira da Silva – Brazil Discovering the humans and the androids Every robot designed and inspired by the human being is named android because they have an anthropoid form. But how these robots approach the object of his inspiration effectively? Thinking about it, the book “Human vs. Androids” presents a criterion for measuring this level of humanity baptized by the name “Factor Silva”. From there have been many androids measured and received their Factor Silva which ranges from 0 to 1 or from 0 to 100%. Factor Silva takes into account the Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual coefficients that characterize humans. Among the androids who have received […] Read More