Maybe you caught that recent TED talk about robotic helicopters, or watched the viral video, or saw my recent post about the musical ones. But if you were impressed, then back up a minute. Any implementation of coordinated motion on a series of robots like that is complex. People are doing it with helicopters, airplanes, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Robot’
Don’t be too impressed
Posted in Robotics, tagged nature, Robot, robotic helicopters, starlings, swarm robotics on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
More Kinect stuff
Posted in Robotics, tagged Kinect, projects, Robot, Robotics, Technology on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
the punchline is – I’m getting one. This is a must have, and something I’m planning to use in an upcoming robotics project. Here’s a great example of a robot that uses the Kinect for both recognizing objects it manipulates and also interfacing with an operator:
An interesting robot concept, with some potential
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robot, Robotics on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just stumbled across this group in Seattle that has developed a nice hardware package (and some apps) to mobilize your smartphone.
Here’s a robot
Posted in Robotics, tagged AUV, Beluga, Lab, Robot on May 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) I’ve been working on. It does have a tether, so you might call it an ROV (remotely operated), but it actually uses automated control to move around. Yesterday was a full day in the lab – getting prepped to demonstrate our technology next week. It’s pretty fun stuff to [...]
