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Fire Fighting Robot Tutorial

Need reference for your fire fighting robot project..?
Here some useful reports of fire fighting robot project.:

» fire_fighting_robot_project1.pdf
» Zephyr_Final_Report_Fire_Fighting_Robot.pdf
» Multiple_Robot_Path_Planning_Strategies_for_Bush_Fire_Fighting.pdf
» navigation_robot_tutorial.pdf
» Firebot.pdf
» FireFightingRobot.pdf
» Fire_Fighting_Neural_Robot.pdf
» FIRE_FIGHTING_ROBOT_DESIGN.rar
» MQP_Fire_Fighting_Robot_Report.pdf
» Fire_Fighting_Robot_Tutorial.rar

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Robotics Capital

In earlier days, this was the nation’s watercress king. Then Huntsville became the Rocket City. On Monday, Gov. Bob Riley announced that the Huntsville-Decatur metropolitan area will soon be “the robotics capital of the world.”

Allowing for hyperbole, Riley appears to be on target. A 53-acre site on U.S. 31 across from Calhoun Community College, which will oversee the project with help from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, will eventually become a $71 million robotics education and training center like none other.

It will train some 450 students a year in state-of-the-art robotics. It will become a NASA and U.S. Army Missile Command research and development center. It will also serve as an R&D facility for companies to build and adapt commercial robots.

And it may do something else good for this region’s economy that goes beyond its stated mission: It may help lure a massive Volkswagen assembly plant that would further boost growth and prosperity.

State officials are understandably cagey about the latter possibility. Legislators from the area, commenting on the robotics center that Calhoun won over competing state community colleges, sounded more than cautiously optimistic but less than certain that this might be a key part of a package that will convince Volkswagen officials to call Huntsville home.

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New Humanoid Robot in Uni Emirat Arab

Visitors look at REEM-B, the new humanoid robot unveiled by Pal Technology Robotics, at its launch in Reem Island in Abu Dhabi, June 11, 2008. The 1.47-meter tall robot, which is able to walk dynamically, grasp objects, navigate within buildings, accept voice commands and recognize faces, is one of the most advanced in the world, manufacturers said. Developed by Pal Technology Robotics, REEM-B supercedes the older REEM-A robot, which was launched last year.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan hands a gift to the new humanoid robot REEM-B

Visitors touch the new humanoid robot REEM-B

source:
news.xinhuanet.com

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Microsoft-Backed Robotics Project to Facilitate Disaster Response

University of Massachusetts Lowell professor Holly Yanco will split her share of the money with seven other research teams, including one fromMIT and one from Yale University.

According to the university’s Web site, Yanco founded the school’s Robotics Lab seven years ago. Her Microsoft-backed project will use tabletop multitouch displays to create an interface for emergency personnel to interact and monitor with robots deployed during the response to a disaster, officials say.

Part of the impetus behind Yanco’s project was the federal government’s slow response to help individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina three years ago. At that time, emergency responders used hand-drawn paper maps to search for survivors, and robotic cameras were used, but were limited to sending video only to operators at the site, and not immediately to command staff. Yanco has said her research project is designed to find out how to remedy that shortcoming.

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WHS Robotics Team Introduces Autonomous Robot at National Competition

Members of the Winchester Robotics Team, now in its third year at the high school, have developed the first fully autonomous robot in BotsIQ history.

BotsIQ, an organization which promotes education in technology and engineering by hosting robotic competitions, planned to add an autonomous event this year to the regular bill of events which includes battles between 15-pound robots and 120-pound robots. However, when President Nola Garcia decided to hold off for another year, the Winchester team went ahead with the project anyway.

“When most people think of robots, they think of C-3PO, something that thinks, talks, and walks for itself,” said team president Alex Burka, who is also spearheading the autonomous project. “The fighting robots are really cool but we wanted to challenge ourselves with something different.”

In preparation for the National BotsIQ Competition in late April, Winchester high school students took the initiative in proposing an autonomous competition for BotsIQ, complete with rules and a course.

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Oxford and Pugwash’s Robots Readied For Competition

This news comes from Oxford and Pugwash, road to EAST robotics competition held by tommorow…

Students at two local high schools are hoping their boxes of nuts, bolts and spare parts will become robots capable of capturing a pirate’s flag this weekend.

The students are preparing for the annual Robots EAST robotics competition in Fredericton on May 3, in which schools from across Atlantic Canada will pit their robots against each other for a trophy and bragging rights.

Representing Cumberland County at the event will be Oxford Regional High School and Pugwash District High School. For Oxford student John Newman, it is the third straight year he has been involved with the project.

“I saw all my friends doing it three years ago, and it seemed like a lot of fun,” said the Grade 12 student. “You get to work with your hands, then go compete with other schools to see how you do with what you built.”

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Ontario Robotics Team Wins World Robotics Championships

Ontario Robotics Team Wins World Robotics Championships

Students on a high school robotics team from St. Catharines, Ont. have been crowned world champions after battling more than 1,500 squads for the top spot.Twenty-five students from Governor Simcoe Secondary School –known as the “Simbotics” — won the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Championship in Atlanta, Ga., last weekend.

“We’ve been working towards this goal for six years now and the team’s pretty ecstatic about it,” Greg Phillips, team coach and tech teacher, told CTV.ca on Monday.

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Vex Robotics World Championships

Another World Robot Competition will be held at California next month…

Hundreds of high school students from around the planet are flocking to California next month to compete in the first ever world championships, participating in a ball game called Bridge Battle. Played on a 12′ x 12′ field, two alliances of robots battle it out to place 77 tennis balls in elevated platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

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FIRST Robotics Competition Boston Regional

News for FIRST robotics competition - Boston regional:

News source bizjournals.com

The FIRST Robotics Competition Boston regional event kicks off today at Boston University’s Agganis Arena.

Teams practiced at the Commonwealth Ave arena yesterday. Two alliances — either red or blue — composed of three randomly selected high school teams each, squared off before a sparse but raucous crowd made up of other teams.

This year’s competition requires the robots to knock a giant rubber ball off a bridge spanning an oval track, carry it counter-clockwise around the track and either launch the ball over the bridge or pass it under it each time they pass a certain point on the track.

Some squat robots used beetle-like pincers to scoop up and carry the ball, with a launching or punching mechanism to get it over the bridge. One robot had a boxing glove attached to a telescopic arm to knock the ball from the bridge.

Other, taller robots used long arms with robotic hands or claws to grab the ball and drop it over the bridge. The robot controlled by the team from BU Academy used such a robot, RoboRed, named after the school’s terrier mascot. Robo Red is a tower on wheels with an craning arm and a claw to grab the ball. Read the rest of this entry »

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Robotics Competition in Hawaii

Another robotics “battle” in Hawaii… it so cool… :D. Here the news from kgmb9.com:

Dozens of teams are getting ready for a battle of the brains at the Stan Sheriff Center. They spent the day practicing for the regional robotics competition.

The event includes 700 students from 37 high schools throughout Hawaii and the mainland. They had six weeks to design and build their robots.

The machines score points in different ways; like knocking balls off the overpass, throwing them over the rack, or picking them up and putting them back in place. Read the rest of this entry »

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