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Are gestures the future of robotic control?
A few decades ago, touchscreens were impressive, yet clunky pieces of technology reserved for applications that did little more than show off that touchscreens were possible. Today’s touchscreens ar...
29 April 2017, by
Anna Johansson
SICK LMS full LIDAR teardown
I recently found a SICK LMS291 in the trash (dumpster diving time!). It is a bit of an older model---manufactured in August 2000---however the fundamentals should be similiar to the current generation...
28 April 2017, by
Robots for Roboticists
World Book Day 2017: 20 robot related books to inspire kids and teens
Happy International World Book and Copyright Day! It's a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading, held annually on 23 April---a symbolic date coinciding with the anniversary of the ...
23 April 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Crash Course Computer Science video series
Crash Course is a video channel you can access through YouTube. Crash Course Computer Science is an ongoing playlist of fast-moving videos that begin with the most basic underpinnings of digital comp...
17 April 2017, by
John Payne
PLA vs. ABS: What’s the difference?
PLA and ABS are the 2 most common FDM desktop printing materials. Both are thermoplastics, meaning they enter a soft and moldable state when heated and then return to a solid when cooled. Via the FDM ...
14 April 2017, by
Ken Giang
A vision for Nigeria’s youth: FIRST LEGO league competition held in Nigeria
In March, robot programming students took part in the 2016-17 FIRST LEGO LEAGUE competition (FLL) with the theme ‘ANIMAL ALLIES’. FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is a program that supports children and...
14 April 2017, by
Stella Uzochukwu
ROS robotics projects
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...
04 April 2017, by
Lentin Joseph
Classroom robotics: Training teachers to code
*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...
22 March 2017, by
Amanda Jaakkola
Envisioning the future of robotics
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...
16 March 2017, by
Víctor Mayoral Vilches
Developing ROS programs for the Sphero robot
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...
13 March 2017, by
Ricardo Téllez
Programming for robotics: Introduction to ROS
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...
07 March 2017, by
Péter Fankhauser
Motor control systems: Bode plots and stability
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...
21 February 2017, by
Robots for Roboticists
Python programming your NAO robot
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...
09 February 2017, by
Philip English
Why artificial intelligence could be key to future-proofing the grid
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...
03 February 2017, by
Valentin Robu
Building character AI through machine learning
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...
01 February 2017, by
Brad Knox
What is machine learning?
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....
16 January 2017, by
Oxford Sparks
Robotics, maths, python: A fledgling computer scientist’s guide to inverse kinematics
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...
13 January 2017, by
Alistair Wick
Designing robots with bugs??
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...
26 December 2016, by
Jibo
‘It’s a reminder we are making a difference in the world’: Girls of Steel follow up
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 ...
14 December 2016, by
Theresa Richards and Andra Keay
QuadBot: The 3D printed crab-bot scuttling beyond its Kickstarter goal
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 ...
09 December 2016, by
Josh Elijah
Book review: The Car Hacker’s Handbook, by Craig Smith
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...
25 November 2016, by
Robots for Roboticists
TrotBot tackles rough terrain
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5z7AImwnc[/embed]
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...
17 November 2016, by
Ben Vagle
Robotics tutor for primary school children
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...
04 November 2016, by
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Root: A robot for all ages to learn coding
Robohub Crowdfunding
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 ...
31 October 2016, by
Zee Dubrovsky
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Teach Xemo to Move, with Jeff Sprenger
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...
31 October 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Sticky business: Five adhesives tested for 3D printing
[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 ...
28 October 2016, by
George Fomitchev
Meet RoboGabby: She’s on a mission to teach more girls about robotics
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...
14 October 2016, by
Kassie Perlongo
Adjust how you learn and quickly pick up robotics programming
"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...
06 October 2016, by
Ricardo Téllez
Should your robot have a tether?
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 ...
22 September 2016, by
Robots for Roboticists
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LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner
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...
17 September 2016, by
Ron Vanderkley
