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ROS robotics projects
Lentin Joseph
04 Apr 2017
A new book by Lentin Joseph, ROS Robotics Programming, outlines more than 14 robotics projects using ROS that can be engaged with without requiring a lot of hardware. The book starts with an introdu...
Classroom robotics: Training teachers to code
Amanda Jaakkola
22 Mar 2017
*All images credit: ROBBO
30 teachers arrived, excited to learn. They rolled up their sleeves and placed laptops and Robot kits on the floor. The room filled with excitement (and laughter!) as ever...
Envisioning the future of robotics
Víctor Mayoral Vilches
16 Mar 2017
Robotics is said to be the next technological revolution. Many seem to agree that robots will have a tremendous impact over the following years, and some are heavily betting on it. Companies are inves...
Developing ROS programs for the Sphero robot
Ricardo Téllez
13 Mar 2017
You probably know the Sphero robot. It is a small robot with the shape of a ball. In case that you have one, you must know that it is possible to control it using ROS, by installing in your computer t...
Programming for robotics: Introduction to ROS
Péter Fankhauser
07 Mar 2017
This handy video-tutorial course gives an introduction to the Robot Operating System (ROS), including many of the available tools that are commonly used in robotics. With the help of different example...
Motor control systems: Bode plots and stability
Robots for Roboticists
21 Feb 2017
I was asked on the Robots for Roboticists forum about tuning motors and understanding Bode plots. Many motor control software packages come with tuning tools that can generate Bode plots. This post is...
Python programming your NAO robot
Philip English
09 Feb 2017
These videos aim to teach you how to begin programming your NAO with Python. The NAO can be programmed using several programming languages, including C++, MATLAB, JAVA, LabVIEW and Python. Instead of...
Why artificial intelligence could be key to future-proofing the grid
Valentin Robu
03 Feb 2017
A recent Conversation piece pointed out that the British electricity mix in 2016 was the cleanest in 60 years, with record capacity from renewable energy, mainly from wind and solar power. But one pro...
Building character AI through machine learning
Brad Knox
01 Feb 2017
Modern character AI could be better.
I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...
What is machine learning?
Oxford Sparks
16 Jan 2017
In this fascinating animation from Oxford Sparks, we take a look at how statistics and computer science can be used to make machines that learn for themselves, without being explicitly programmed....
Robotics, maths, python: A fledgling computer scientist’s guide to inverse kinematics
Alistair Wick
13 Jan 2017
So – you’ve built a robot arm. Now you’ve got to figure out how to control the thing. This was the situation I found myself in a few months ago, during my Masters project, and it’s a problem c...
Designing robots with bugs??
Jibo
26 Dec 2016
Ask a child to design a robot, and they’ll produce a drawing that looks a little like you or I—the parts may be gray and boxy, but it will have two arms, two legs, and a head (probably with an ant...
‘It’s a reminder we are making a difference in the world’: Girls of Steel follow up
Theresa Richards and Andra Keay
14 Dec 2016
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to engage more young women into engineering. Over the last few years, we’ve heard what it’s like to be part of ...
QuadBot: The 3D printed crab-bot scuttling beyond its Kickstarter goal
Josh Elijah
09 Dec 2016
Robotics is becoming more accessible for many people, but the complexities of legged robots mean they remain beyond the reach of most consumers. The complex mechanics, electronics and code algorithms ...
Book review: The Car Hacker’s Handbook, by Craig Smith
Robots for Roboticists
25 Nov 2016
The Car Hacker’s Handbook A Guide for the Penetration Tester is a book about how to interface with cars to read from onboard systems, spoof devices, and control the vehicle on your own. I enjoyed th...
TrotBot tackles rough terrain
Ben Vagle
17 Nov 2016
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Hi, I'm Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a min...
Robotics tutor for primary school children
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
04 Nov 2016
By: Ian Salter
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
Root: A robot for all ages to learn coding
Zee Dubrovsky
31 Oct 2016
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Support a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund Root: the coding robot for all ages!
Root is a robot, originally developed at Harvard University, that helps anyone from four to ...
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Teach Xemo to Move, with Jeff Sprenger
Abate De Mey
31 Oct 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Jeff Sprenger, founder of the startup Xemory in Vermont, USA. At Xemory they are developing a robot simulation game called Xemo, where players learn to animate...
Sticky business: Five adhesives tested for 3D printing
George Fomitchev
28 Oct 2016
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipPzi9J-M9w[/embed]
We compared five adhesives for 3D printing applications on a Wanhao Duplicator i3. We’ll print a PLA (polylactide) cube, 1х1х1 cm in ...
Meet RoboGabby: She’s on a mission to teach more girls about robotics
Kassie Perlongo
14 Oct 2016
Gabby has five goals to achieve this school year. The first goal sounds like any other young middle schooler: get straight As in her classes. Goal number two: get accepted into her school's robotics t...
Adjust how you learn and quickly pick up robotics programming
Ricardo Téllez
06 Oct 2016
"The biggest obstacle preventing robotics going mainstream is not having good programmers able to program robots," Brian Gerkey, CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Learning to program robots...
Should your robot have a tether?
Robots for Roboticists
22 Sep 2016
Some people swear all tethers are bad. Some recommend attaching a tether to robots in order to provide power (to save the mass and volume of the batteries), for reliable fast communications, transfer ...
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LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner
Ron Vanderkley
17 Sep 2016
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen "Juxi" Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner spe...
Robotiq launches DoF: A community for robotics professionals
Robotiq Inc.
12 Sep 2016
Robotiq has just launched a new community called DoF. This is an open community where industrial automation professionals share their know-how and get answers to accelerate their robotics projects....
Installing and running time synchronization, with chrony
Robots for Roboticists
26 Aug 2016
Time synchronization affects many robots. Robots have more computers and sensors, so keeping everything in sync is important. Trying to look through log files where all of the times are skewed is not...
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 3 of 3)
Alberto Molina
24 Aug 2016
Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 2 of 3)
Alberto Molina
23 Aug 2016
Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 1 of 3)
Alberto Molina
22 Aug 2016
This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Marty: the little walking robot that’s more than a toy
Alexander Enoch
08 Aug 2016
Update: Only 4 days left to crowdfund Marty! They are over 70% towards reaching their goal! ...
Wall-climbing robots create a carbon fiber hammock (with video, images)
Robohub Editors
04 Aug 2016
Maria Yablonina's project, called Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures, demonstrates a new production process for filament structures, like carbon fiber, by crawling up the wall ...
Hello Pepper: Getting started to program robots on Android
Margaret Maynard-Reid
03 Aug 2016
I didn’t get to meet Pepper the humanoid Robot at Google I/O but I watched the video afterwards: A new development frontier: Android + Pepper the interactive robot. Love the robots’ dance! I was s...
Pros and cons for different types of drive selection
Robots for Roboticists
29 Jul 2016
In the past, we have looked at wheel design and the kinematics of skid steer and mecanum wheels. In this post, we will take a quick look at different types of mobility types (ie. wheels, tracks) and h...
Drive kinematics: Skid steer and mecanum (ROS twist included)
Robots for Roboticists
19 Jul 2016
I am often in need of the basic kinematic motion equations for skid steer vehicles. I have also recently been working with mecanum wheeled vehicles. The skid steer equations are fairly simple and easy...
Teaching the teachers: Study focuses on how teachers perceive educational robots in classrooms
NCCR Robotics
13 Jul 2016
Despite phenomenal advances in the field of robotics in recent years and specifically the field of robots for use in the classroom, there is still a large shortfall in the number of teachers who activ...
Anki’s new Cozmo SDK turns toy robots into sophisticated research tools
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
12 Jul 2016
Anki’s new robot Cozmo (with free SDK) shows that this consumer robotics startup has got bigger plans than simply dominating the smart toy category. Founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Insti...
