Topic: ROBOT - on August 3, 2016 at 5:21:00 PM CEST
Hackable, educational walking bot can add a Raspberry Pi
Robotical’s hackable, Cortex-M4 based “Marty” educational robot has flexible legs, and can be upgraded with an onboard Raspberry Pi. A startup called Robotical is seeking funds on Indiegogo for a 3D printable, mostly open source, walking robot called Marty. The WiFi-controlled bipedal bot has a 180MHz Cortex-M4 MCU, and is primarily designed to teach kids about programming using Scratch. It can also be programmed with Python or C++, and you can upgrade it with a Linux-driven Raspberry Pi or other small SBC.
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Topic: ROBOT - on December 23, 2013 at 2:50:00 PM CET
Google's Schaft robot wins Darpa rescue challenge
A robot developed by a Japanese start-up recently acquired by Google is the winner of a two-day competition hosted by the Pentagon's research unit Darpa.
Team Schaft's machine carried out all eight rescue-themed tasks to outscore its rivals by a wide margin.
Three of the other 15 teams that took part failed to secure any points at the event near Miami, Florida.
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Topic: ROBOT - on July 17, 2013 at 4:14:00 PM CEST
Robot doing a quadruple backflip
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Topic: ROBOT - on June 23, 2013 at 5:19:00 PM CEST
Harvard Microrobotics Lab
Our research focuses on design, fabrication, control, and analysis of biologically-inspired microrobots and soft robots. Expertise in microfabrication and microsystem design, combined with insights from nature, enable us to create high-performance aerial and ambulatory microrobots.
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Topic: ROBOT - on December 18, 2011 at 8:35:00 AM CET
Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA
Last month, philosopher Patrick Lin delivered this briefing about the ethics of drones at an event hosted by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture-capital arm. It's a thorough and unnerving survey of what it might mean for the intelligence service to deploy different kinds of robots.
Robots are replacing humans on the battlefield--but could they also be used to interrogate and torture suspects? This would avoid a serious ethical conflict between physicians' duty to do no harm, or nonmaleficence, and their questionable role in monitoring vital signs and health of the interrogated. A robot, on the other hand, wouldn't be bound by the Hippocratic oath, though its very existence creates new dilemmas of its own.
The ethics of military robots is quickly marching ahead, judging by news coverage and academic research. Yet there's little discussion about robots in the service of national intelligence and espionage, which are omnipresent activities in the background. This is surprising, because most military robots are used for surveillance and reconnaissance, and their most controversial uses are traced back to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in targeted strikes against suspected terrorists. Just this month, a CIA drone --a RQ-170 Sentinel--crash-landed intact into the hands of the Iranians, exposing the secret US spy program in the volatile region.
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Topic: ROBOT - on December 24, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM CET
A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009
2009 has been an amazing year in the world of robots and Singularity Hub is here to tell you all about it! Thats right, its time to unveil our second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome. If you haven’t seen it yet you won’t want to miss our best robots of 2008 story from last year, but now lets not delay any further and get on with the best robots of 2009.
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Topic: ROBOT - on August 13, 2009 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
More Robots - 36 photos total
Scientists, students and corporations continue their work around the world in the field of robotics, persistently improving and redefining their capabilities, interfaces and roles in society. Unmanned vehicles fly above war zones, telerobotics give humans a broader virtual presence and humanoid robots gain more parity with humans, refining their movements and responses. Collected here are a handful of recent photographs of robotics in use around the world.
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Topic: ROBOT - on July 9, 2009 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
15 Tons Of Wiimote Controlled Robot Grapple Arm
The last Wiimote controlled robot arm we saw came at us with a couple tennis balls and a sword… So I dunno, d’you suppose these 15 ton Wiimote controlled grapple arms are more dangerous?
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Topic: ROBOT - on February 21, 2009 at 12:02:00 PM CET
US Navy Warns of Robot Rebellion
Autonomous military robots fighting future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands. This stark warning -- which includes discussion of a Terminator-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters—is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the US Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research. The report notes that robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over human soldiers.
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Topic: ROBOT - on March 19, 2008 at 11:24:00 AM CET
Robots fly into Antarctic skies
A pair of lightweight, robotic planes have made the first unmanned flights over Antarctica's icy expanses.
Driven by propeller, the machines made 20 low-altitude sorties, including four over the Weddell Sea.
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were launched by catapult but flew autonomously until landing.
During some of the test flights the machines were fitted with miniaturised instruments to collect data for use in predictive climate models.
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Topic: ROBOT - on November 26, 2007 at 9:38:00 AM CET
Super Suit Gets Serious
Raytheon, the giant defense contractor, recently bought up Utah technology firm Sarcos' robotics business. And it wasn't because of Sarcos' work on the Bellagio's fountains, I suspect.
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Topic: ROBOT - on November 14, 2007 at 11:26:00 AM CET
Ann Smith’s Recycled Robot Animals
Ann Smith takes recycling to the next level. She creates sculptures from tossed out gadgets and electronics parts, then she uses stop-motion photography to put them in motion. The sculptures have been sold in stores and galleries throughout the US and have been published as illustrations in several magazines and brochures.
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