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”

 

• M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found

  
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  “The Machine Age,” an essay written for The New York Times by Norbert Wiener, a visionary mathematician, languished for six decades in the M.I.T. archives, and now excerpts are being published.        
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• Samsung Seeks to Patent Surgical Robot, Announces 5G Network

  
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  Over the past few years, electronic devices have become a staple for Samsung’s main subsidiary, Samsung Electronics. That subsidiary is a major standard bearer for the mobile device industry, and even recently announced plans to release consumer electronics on the 5G network as early as 2020, according to Forbes. ...
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• Can Robots Care for Humans?

  
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  A look at new work that is being done by workers at the Carnegie Mellon Universityin hopes of helping older people to live at home longer and better, with the help of robots. The bot currently in development, but not in production, is designed to help clean up and bring objects. It wont replace humans, but it could ...
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• Self-driving car technology that would only add $4000 to price of a car wins Intel science fair

  
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  Ionut Budisteanu, 19, of Romania was awarded first place for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car at this years Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. His whole system should work for no more $4,000. Ionut created a feasible design for an autonomously ...
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• Robots learn to take a proper handoff by following digitized human examples

  
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  A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in...
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• Insert Coin: Linkbot modular robotic platform lets you quickly build a bot, skills

  
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  In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If youd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. Everybody loves robots, but the initial ardor for building one can quickly be snuffed out by the complex ...
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• NSCC: North Shore Academy & Summer of Discovery 2013

  
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  North Shore Community College is proud to offer kids entering grades 3–8 a summer of fun, interesting, mind bending classes that focus on making cool science experiments like flowing volcanoes and foaming potions. And it wouldnt be summer if you didnt get to have some fun fitness time playing games inside and out. ...
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• The Internet, the Middle Class and the Jobless Future

  
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  On May 12, Salon published ‘Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class‘ since that time I’ve had the article sent to me about a half a dozen times from people who thought I might like to comment. Sadly, most of those people do not seem to have read the entire article and somehow missed (More)… ...
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• BeatBots Continues Socially Conscious Innovation

  
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  BeatBots has created the Gobug. Gobug is a mobile robotic toy planned for use in therapy sessions for autistic kids. Control requires communication and collaboration by multiple children. An additional controller used by a therapist allow him or her to step in if necessary. Read the full article on MAKE
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• Flocking With Lego Mindstorms NXT

  
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  http://scottsnowden.co.uk/?page_id=72 A long but very interest post on a project to implement flocking using a group of Lego Mindstorms NXT robots.  
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• MITs Cheetah shows just what robots can do on the...

  
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  MITs Cheetah shows just what robots can do on the track. futurescope : MIT’s Cheetah robot runs faster & more efficiently Robotic Greyhound Races are closer than you think. From Engadget: At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the Institute of Technology showed of its ...
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• Disruptions: Disruptions: Robots as Home Health Care Aides for the Elderly

  
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  With a growing population of Americans over the age of 65, but a lack of trained home health care workers, more and more people could opt to hire robots to do the job.        
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• Ubiquity Robot Team’s “12 Tasks of Hercules”

  
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  Got a passion project and want to build a team around it? Start in your makerspace! Dr. David Crawley desperately wanted to hack robots and build a useful platform, not an inexpensive toy that couldnt do anything or a useful robot that few could afford. He wanted his to be inexpensive and capable. To pull this off he ...
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• 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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