Industrial robots the most sophisticated and most versatile … These bots are a ballet indefatigable not without a certain elegance.
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It’s a robot sorting and packaging. We admire the speed at which it operates. Continue reading
It’s just a great idea! She was especially interested in the complexity of solving seemingly simple task – to protect them from direct sunlight. While most people use blinds and similar devices in the lab, Daniela Russ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to go in an unusual way and built a robot that can move on smooth glass surface of the building and open “umbrella” in front of your window. Continue reading
NASA engineers have developed a robot able to navigate in space and maneuver on the ground. Their trials were held in Moses Lake, Washington. There have been several tests 12-wheeled automated transport and six-legged rover that can carry massive loads. Also, tests were carried out drilling and mapping robot. According to the trial committee, these devices would greatly assist in future space exploration activities of other planets. Continue reading
Cyber Dyne Company decided to start mass production of exoskeleton. Apparatus HAL [hybrid assistive limb, or “hybrid auxiliary limb], designed to increase the physical strength of the owner. Using sensors attached to human skin, exoskeleton determines which muscles are going to involve people, and creates a directed effort. For the same reason people do not feel the weight [25 kilograms] of this suit. Continue reading
While Big Dog runs field trials (see note “Carrying loads on the four-legged walking robots”), His little brother – Little Dog – improving their skills in the laboratory. Both the robot was developed by Boston Dynamics, working on order of U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Ministry of Defense (DARPA) and was originally intended for use by the military. Continue reading
Japanese Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and Robotics (Hiroshi Ishiguro) first became known to the public through the creation of his “twin”, the robot Geminoid HI-1. Remote-controlled, he was able to convey basic emotions of its operator and transmit his voice with built-in speakers. The main purpose of this robot was to study the various psychological aspects of the interaction of robots and humans. Continue reading
The company Boston Dynamics is widely known in the robotics market due to its successful invention – enduring four-legged Big Dog. This robot is the size of a large dog to become a good help the soldiers, Marines – it can be controlled, he should go where to the right, and thus carries a payload of up to 136 kg over a distance of 20 km at 6 km / h. Continue reading
Matt Bounding, a student at the University of Arizona, developed and built a robotic spider that automatically learns to walk whenever it include. The robot is equipped with a webcam; it analyzes the image and comparing them with the movement of their own feet, learning to walk. Continue reading
Tactile, acoustic, and vision sensors provide robots with perceptual capabilities, enabling them to explore and analyze their environment in order to behave more intelligently. The intelligent robot system KAMRO uses several camera systems to generate an environment model in order to perform complex assembly tasks. Continue reading
Higher intelligence and greater autonomy of more advanced robot systems increase the requirements for the design of a flexible interface to control the system on different levels of abstraction. In the Kamro (Karlsruhe Autonomous Mobile Robot) project, for example, an autonomous mobile robot (Fig. 1) for assembly tasks is being developed which also has the capability of recovering from error situations Lath and Remold (1994). Continue reading