Archive for October, 2008
Day Three PDC Keynote: Microsoft Research Magic
At the Center for Personal Robotics at Georgia Tech, students receive a personal robot to program throughout their graduate career; fun and educational at the same time. The World wide Telescope Equinox Beta links all the data from the … Full Article >>
17. The Mobile, Dexterous, Social Robot – TIME's Best Inventions …
The Mobile, Dexterous, Social Robot – TIME’s Best Inventions of 2008 – TIMENexi is the first of a new class of robot being developed at MIT’s Media Lab and referred to as MDS, which stands for mobile, dexterous, social. … Full Article >>
The robot man
Fred Barton is the man who has restored both the original Robby the Robot from the film Forbidden Planet and the B9 robot (my personal favorite) from the TV show Lost in Space. The restored B9 is on display at the Science Fiction Museum … Full Article >>
Kim Drake cares about Alabama
William Thompson, who runs a very secretive court, benefits from the same backers and money-hustlers that support Judge Greg Shaw ‘“ namely Big Money out of Washington DC This means those out of state manipulators are backing their man. … Full Article >>
changing assembly modes without passing parallel singularities in …
this paper demonstrates that any general 3-dof three-legged planar parallel robot with extensible legs can change assembly modes without passing through parallel singularities (configurations where the mobile platform loses its … Full Article >>
An update… Finally
Heard from my classmate that only 1 out of the 7 wall climbing robot teams will be going to spinnovex… hope it isnt true >,< . If wad i rly work so hard for nth.. Chun Ming lent me his psp(Thank You, many many) and now im addicted to … Full Article >>
Wot?!? New gear motors?
What’s particularly new is that they have sealed cylindrical gearboxes! Same sort of gearing, but no funky rectangular shape – just a nice, sleek, clean enclosed gearbox. And these new motors aren’t just sealed-versions of their … Full Article >>
Can we glue pieces together?
We are a new team. Can we glue leg pieces for attachments to the robot. For instance, the kids designed a plow to move objects – can we glue the pieces togther on the plow so they do not fall apart during the competition? Thanks!!!! Full Article >>
Assistive Technology Blog Carnival "Mad Scientist" Edition
I was sliding circuit boards across the floor to interconnect and turn on a large robot. It is a strategy game – fun to entertain you when you don’t have anything else to do – anyone out there have time with nothing to do? … Full Article >>
Why Stephanie Jacobsen Is Our Favorite Robot-Fighting Ninja …
At least, when the whole cast got replaced, “it obviously wasn’t a personal slight towards anyone who was involved in the original pilot.” And, of course, “all’s well that ends well,” since she’s enjoying doing the Terminator show now. … Full Article >>