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”

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  International CES Robot Report
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  by makobiscribe / on Jan 20, 2012
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  by makobiscribe / on Jan 17, 2012
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• The Robot Report from CES 2012: Medical Implications

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 457
  I got access to the Robot Report written by Frank Tobe from the recent Consumer Electronics Show 2012. He featured many innovative and futuristic consumer robots out of which a few, I think, had real medical or health-related implications. You can download the document here . An excerpt: Consumer robotics ...
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• The elegance of Mechanical Movements

  
  Ponoko - Blog — Authority: 466
  Embracing the sculptural beauty of machines in motion Hot on the heels of our Best of the Blog 2011: Art post comes this mesmerising clip from filmmaker Ralph Steiner’s Mechanical Principles , a 1930’s masterpiece in which the inner workings of all kinds of devices are revealed. Taking a moment to ...
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• Dubstep Dance, Take Me Away

  
  Radicalfilms.co.uk — Authority: 106
  In memory of my Grandfather’s life as he prepares for the great adventure into the next. I’ve watched this to many soundtracks: my favourites were Mix Master Mike, DJ Shadow (Endtroducing), and Electronic Broadcast Network (particularly Mach-10 and Get Down).
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• German Scientists Teach Advanced Robots to Play Baseball

  
  Techland — Authority: 126
  Berthold Bäuml from the German Aerospace Center has created something that might interest quite a few MLB teams: a robot that can throw and catch a baseball.
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• TOSY mRobo: Portable speaker that transforms into a dancing robot

  
  GadgetLite - Latest gadgets and technology news — Authority: 462
  Each day we see more robots, and if you’re fan of robots and portable speakers, you’ll be interested in this hybrid robot. Developed by TOSY, mRobo is one of a kind robot that comes with built-in speaker, and it can easily play music thanks to its internal memory, but what really makes this robot so special ...
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• No Robots – A short film portrays ugliness of intolerance

  
  RoundedOff — Authority: 119
  Have you ever felt emotional towards a robot? If the answer is no, you should stop by to watch this beautiful short film by students, YungHan Chang and Kimberly Knoll at San Jose State University. The movie ‘No Robots’, deals with anti-machine prejudice running across the globe and tends to raise a soft corner in ...
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• Lego League Team Advances to State Tournament

  
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  Back Row: Ian Stewart, Michael Pfister, Bryce McCullough, Alyssa Stewart, Colin Achterberg Front Row: Logan Oskey The Bacteria Busters, Tipp City’s 2011 Lego robotics team, will be advancing to the state tournament for their second straight consecutive year. This year, the teams were required to build, test, ...
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• Asterisk – Omni-directional Robot Insect

  
  Tutorials - Videos - Musics — Authority: 131
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• A Hundred Billion Reasons to Invest in Robotics Technology

  
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• Snake’s rectilinear locomotion inspires more efficient all-terrain robot design

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 127
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• OpenROV to Perform Preliminary Dives

  
  MAKE Magazine — Authority: 123
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• Projectile Motion Primer for 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition

  
  adafruit industries blog — Authority: 618
  Projectile Motion Primer for FIRST Robotics It is that FIRST Robotics competition time of the year. Basically, in FIRST , high school students work in teams to build robots that compete in specific tasks. Apparently, this year a task involves throwing a basketball into a goal. And this leads to the popular ...
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• Clarus Ventures Looks to Steer Ship Through Less Predictable Biotech Seas

  
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• Do you have any cubelets for your cubicle?

  
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• Deep-Sea Diving Robot Can Do Dangerous Work

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 880
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• Zoobotics

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 127
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• Intern’s Corner: Tiny Wanderer from MAKE Volume 29

  
  MAKE Magazine — Authority: 647
  Working at Make: Labs is always fun, especially when you get to test kits before they’re released to the public. As part of MAKE Volume 29 we got to build and test the Tiny Wanderer kit, designed by Doug Paradis and featured in the issue. Inspired by the now-discontinued SERB Robot kit , the Tiny Wanderer uses the ...
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• New products added to Skookum Robotics – Direct

  
  RC Heli Resource — Authority: 122
  Here is news from the Facebook page of Skookum Robotics. They announced a couple of products added to their Skookum Direct site as well as provided information regarding the refurbished SK-720 Flybarless Systems. Thanks Skookum Robotics for sharing the news. Continue through to get the details.
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• Evolution Robotics Mint Automatic Hard Floor Cleaner, 4200

  
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