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Catching up with robots
The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform for their ARM program, putting a completed unit through its paces at ICRA.
A small omni-roller suitable for use as one or more fingers of a robotic hand…
An autonomous robotic fish for detecting and finding the source of pollution…
http://youtu.be/z-XI9MrU1iM
MIT 6.141 Robotics Class Final Challenge for 2012…
Back to ICRA to watch an Adept mobile robot navigating the show floor…
Another Adept robot being used in research at Cornell…
And finally, Georgia Tech’s Travis doing a little dance…
tags: Adept, autonomous, DARPA, Georgia Tech, ICRA, MIT, RE2
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