Skip to content

Monthly Archives: January 2009

Robots To Clean Your Kitchen And Play Hockey?

31-Jan-09

This interesting information come from ScienceDaily, said about the future of robotics which could be made by anyone, not just industries or company who able to make a “big” robots.

====================
Robots To Clean Your Kitchen And Play Hockey?

Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot’s long and shiny arms to a visitor.

Here, they said, swing it around. And so the visitor tentatively gave the robot’s left arm a few twists and twirls. The metal arm was heavy, but still moved easily at its shoulder, elbow and wrist joints.

Then the graduate students hit some keyboard commands and the robot replayed those exact arm movements.

It was all incredibly quick, smooth and precise.

Robotics Ebook: Build a Remote-Controlled Robot

17-Jan-09

robotics ebook build remote-controlled robotThis book will show you how to make remote-controlled robot, step by step…

Preface:
In recent years robots have captured the interest of more and more people. Thanks to movies and TV, the notion of the robot as a mechanical companion and servant has become a common concept. As interest in robots grew, a number of books showing how to build robots at home began to appear. These books, however, were very technical, showing how to build computer-controlled mobile platforms that are considered by most to be true robots.