robotics

Robotics is a scientific and engineering discipline that deals with all aspects of designing, manufacturing and controlling robots. First recognized as an independent branch of science in the 1960s, with the advent of industrial robots, robotics today has applications ranging from space explorations to health care, education to military and everything in between.

Some of the major fields of study in robotics include manipulation and locomotion, sensing, navigation and interaction with humans. Advances in robotics are directly linked to advances in the general computing technologies because most of the robot controlling aspects require great amounts of computation and data processing.

Although some recent advances in robotics, such as computer vision and pattern recognition, new types of sensors and power sources may not be well-known to the general public, there are several projects that received worldwide recognition and spurred interest in robotics in recent years. These include DARPA Grand Challenge self-controlling cars with grand implications for the transportation systems, self-balancing robots that were commercialized in the famous Segway personal transportation vehicle and Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot among others.

You can find robotics discussed at sites like Trossen Robotics Blog and Robotics Community.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “robotics”

• in Technology
  SkyNet Fans Rejoice: Scientists Develop Robot Brain Made Out of the Internet
  A new project aims to assist robot intelligence by using cloud based information.
  by cmimanagers / on Mar 10, 2013
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  Risk of a Terminator Style Robot Uprising to be Studied
  A new research centre has been setup to investigate the risk of robot AI to mankind
  by cmimanagers / on Nov 27, 2012
• in Technology
  International CES Robot Report
  A few of the robot trends of International CES 2012
  by makobiscribe / on Jan 20, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “robotics”

 

• Sylvia Todd, super-awesome maker

  
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  The  maker of Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Mini-Maker Show is an 11-year-old girl, reports the New York Times . Sylvia Todd’s desk is not tidy. It’s cluttered with small robots (including a solar-powered grasshopper), motors, wires, resistors, a soldering iron and an array of other gadgets and tools. More than ...
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• Technology for mankind

  
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  I became aware of usage of modern technologies in modern healthcare , during my college days. When we were searching for ideas about final year projects, I came across a proposal submitted by one of my batch mate which was completely unique. He planned about a belt to be worn by pregnant ladies , which can monitor her ...
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• Drive your robot DC motors with an H-Bridge

  
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  This post forms part of my Line Following Robot project and will serve as my research for how to accurately control the speed and direction of the line follower. What is an h-bridge? This circuit is called an h-bridge because of its construction - notice the capital H formed by the diode connections in the center ...
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• Pedals Music Video (featuring REAL robots)

  
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• Sailbot 2013

  
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  Robots come in all shapes and sizes, but in Gloucester this June youll be able to see demonstrations of one-of-a-kind sail boat robots! SailBot 2013 is an international robotic sailing regatta open to student teams wishing to design, build and compete robotic sailboats. SailBot 2013, the North American competition ...
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• Programmers and Robotics

  
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  Programmer A programmer is an individual who writes computer software. Other terms such as developer, software engineer, coder, and computer programmer are interchangeably used with the title. A programmer can be an expert in a particular area of programming or someone who writes code for multiple types of software. ...
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• Passenger Business Robojet with full collision avoidance

  
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  A business jet has flown an 800-kilometre round trip in civilian airspace without the pilot onboard operating the planes controls. Instead, the plane flew itself like an outsized drone with continual monitoring of its autonomous manoeuvres performed by a pilot based on the ground. The flight from Warton in ...
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• The Future of Robot-Human Interaction – Directions and Destinations

  
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  The last decade has seen a drastic change in the way technology and especially artificial intelligence influences our lifestyle as we can see with the rapid evolution of smartphones and tablets.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• The 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition

  
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  Heres a report back from the 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition that took place in St. Louis, Missouri from April 24 - April 27, along with a slideshow and video of FIRST robots competing in an arena. Read the full article on MAKE
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• Botanicus Interacticus turns living plants into highly responsive interfaces

  
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  A new approach to digital interaction through . . . plants? Using a single wire placed in the soil, Botanicus Interacticus transforms a living plant into a sophisticated interface. Unlike earlier methods that only identify contact, Botanicus Interacticus uses Touché sensing technology to allow for a range of ...
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• Robotic Valet

  
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  Hey, if we can move to autonomous cars, why not allow robots to park and save us the wasted time and dings so common in today’s parking?
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• BREAKING NEWS – Arduino LOGO robot

  
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  This is a test of the robot basic movement made by A. Martino at the factory where the Arduino Robot will be manufactured.
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• NASA Explores Greenland Ice Sheet With Student-Designed Rover

  
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  An 800-pound, solar-powered rover designed by students at a Goddard engineering boot camp will be rolling across Greenland, collecting data on its depleting surface ice. NASA has deployed the robot (the Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, or GROVER) to learn more about ...
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• Automation Products and the Traits of a Rock Star Distributor

  
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  As an independent systems integrator, Bastian Robotics is able to source virtually any technology. Some technologies are strategically sourced, and some we manufacture. For the ones not manufactured on our own shop floor, we rely on an array of excellent distributors... Read More >>
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• Printed inchworm robot makes self-assembly moves

  
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  A team from Harvard and MIT presented their work at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Germany. Their contribution: “Robot Self-Assembly by Folding: A Printed Inchworm Robot.” The authors, Samuel M. Felton, Michael T. Tolley, Cagdas D. Onal, Daniela Rus, and Robert J. Wood ...
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• Adafruit 16 Channel Servo Driver with Raspberry Pi From the Learning System #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

  
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  Servo motors are often driven using the PWM outputs available on most embedded MCUs. But while the Pi does have native HW support for PWM, there is only one PWM channel available to users at GPIO18. That kind of limits your options if you need to drive more than one servo or if you also want to dim an LED or do some ...
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• LROD system helps robots to discover objects for themselves

  
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  One of the major anticipated applications for robots is in care for the elderly and helping them with daily tasks. This means that robots have got to adapt to human lifestyles, not the other way around, because granny can’t be expected to program the robot or rearrange her house to suit the machine’s limitations. ...
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• 3D printed Robo Raven mechanical bird can perform aerobatic maneuvers with ease

  
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  For years now we have been trying to emulate god’s design by building our own versions of mechanical wings for example. Now joining the band-wagon of select intuitive brainy people who have been successful in doing so are Hugh Bruck and S.K. Gupta (University of Maryland professor) who have developed a robotic bird ...
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• SmartMow – A safe robotic lawn mower with advanced features

  
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  Yesterday, we talked about how a  MIT team has created robots that can assemble IKEA furniture items in our homes. And, now we have another robotic conception at hand, this time for the outdoors. Florida based RoboLabs have ‘Kickstarted‘ their project of offering a robotic lawn mower which is touted to be ...
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• Self-Folding, Printable Inchworm Robot

  
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  The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and  Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are back with another mind-blowing robot. This one doesn’t have a specific name, but Samuel Felton, grad student working on the project, simply describes it as a, “Self-Folding, printed inchworm.” ...
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