Robot name: ROBBIE (Robot Obeying Bit by Bit Information in interactive Environment) Size : 4.4 feet weight : 40 pounds Power : 12 volts, 6 volts and 4.8 volts. Time to build : one year and continuing Cost : aprox. $1,000 GENERAL: -This robot is controlled by a PC through a remote control connected to a serial port. -It uses 16 servos and 22 DC motors -It has two arms, that can pick objects each consisting of 7 motors -Quickcam is used for remote viewing. -I have programmed it in Visual Basic. -ROBBIE can navigate my whole house without any assistance. -I have made my own electronic compass that is connected to the controller's input. and much more... FUNCTION: ROBBIE can do my laundry, switch home lights on-and-off. It is a security system for my house. It can hand me a glass of water. It follows me arround. and much more... PROBLEMS ENCOUNTED: I learn while making my robot... PARTS: Most of the motors are from junk yard and rest from hobby centers. I have used plastics for the body.
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The assistant robot must obey the habits of its owner
For the Companion project, only a robot that can grasp and adapt to its environment can truly look after an elderly person. The prototype will include the emotional state and the habits of the user.
To give more independence to the elderly while providing follow-up home care, robotics is a solution. But it implies the development of machines capable of understanding the context in which they operate and related medical staff. On this basis, the companionable European project develops a prototype robot that will be able to understand the emotional state of its owner, its habits, social support and health monitoring for it. Continue reading
Robot surgeon demitted mini origami.
Advertising in the news again Hi-tech! Initiative Panasonic with their amazing way of advertising the batteries Evolta intercepted company Intuitive Surgical. To demonstrate the capabilities of its already well-known surgical robot da Vinci, the Continue reading
Robot amoeba, changing shape
At that time the public sees the interest of American military vehicles to the use of robots. Most recently, in electronic media мелькали reports of mini-robots, and even the cyborg (insects, controlled by
electronic pulses, and can bear a miniature video camera) with an interest Agency DARPA.
Now, the military focused on the development of amorphous robot that can change shape like amoebas. Americans believe that the property will the robot successfully perform a wide range of military missions. The future robot named Chembot (literally, “chemical robots”), and the company iRobot, won the DARPA, has taken up its development in earnest. Participation in research, in addition to the personnel of the company, will be specialists from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: chemists, materialovedy, specialists in the field of executive devices, electronics, etc.
How to make the combat robot
So you’ve decided to create a robot, but have heard that it is too difficult. I have for you is very welcome news. To make a competitive fighting robot, requires minimal technical skills to acquire that much easier than you think.
For example, I – a specialist in computers and have never in their lives faced with the need to improvise something with his hands. This continued until my children came up to me and did not say: “Dad, you’re doing us a robot, or we are looking for another father, who we do it.” So me and had to find out what is different from the bush lerki.
But they came and asked, and I had to learn all this, and after a year or so (after many failed attempts) I have a good ultralight cuneate robot Anorexia (I gave him this name because he went a little) (Anorexia — “anorexia”). This robot can be seen on DVD, released Robot Club & Grill MAYHEM. Then Anorexia hook screw for the ceiling and in the process of repair has become a good truck, which would have been even better if I carefully drove the car.
(By the way, if you click any of the small images, it will be possible to see enlarged version.)
So, do not hesitate to shelve the case, proceed to the case. This year again, the children come to me and said that now they want their own robot, which simply must be at least some weapons. So I had to go back to the bench.
The case is complicated by the fact that I wanted was just to make a robot that can be used many before me have the spare parts (like batteries, speed controllers, etc.) and that for various “navorochek” use simple components: both easier and faster. The time I have been limited because prior to the qualifying competitions for the south-western states remained only a few months.
This sport (and the creation of the combat robot can be safely attributed to the sport) is constantly evolving, and now you can easily get a lot of proven components, through which even the novice will be able to build a good robot. In other words, I have basic skills, but to make a big box to transfer any torque arms I am not able to. Fortunately, neither me nor you do not want to.
In developing the design of the robot, we decided to operate on the principle that the best defense – the attack. All resources are aimed at weapon – blade lawn, which is driven by electric motor Magmotor. I save every gram to make the blade is the most difficult, and in the end, we got a whole block of tool steel weighing 6.9 pounds (3.13 kilograms), length 22 inches (56 centimeters).
Basically, I used standard parts, and if the design turned out to be unsuccessful, many elements could be replaced by more suitable. The decision proved right: the article describes the fourth version of the robot.
The first model was a something like the letter “T” made of aluminum with a lot of holes to reduce weight. Casters and wheels of the plane of rotation of the blades were directed at an angle to each other, so the robot can easily rotate, it is not moving their arms. However, when moving back was given rasp, as if kolyut nuts. You can not say that this is the best design, but with a disastrous shortage of opportunity to turn to the protection of the most dangerous enemy of his party seemed to me a great advantage.
Two weeks before the first intervention had to re-design. When moving the robot hub transfer box touches the ground, because of what he lost in maneuverability. Obliquely arranged wheels allow the robot to turn on pyatachke, but when moving back there have been problems.
So, I went back to the drawing board, and after a while I get the robot to the displaced axis of rotation, a bit reminiscent of a light 2EZ. At least, the train in welding.
At the competition showed that the robot had to be called “Kamikaze”, because after each attack, he overturns and completely defenseless. After one of the blows he had to ride across the scene. So, again, had to go back to the drawing board.
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A robot to play tic-tac-toe
This robot is playing alone with a man in the classic (3 x 3) tic-tac-toe.
The game is simple, like myself, the robot built out of LEGO-NXT. «Self» means that the robot can determine what kind of made people take a decision and make a retaliatory move. This person does not have a direct impact on the robot, ie no clicks, for example, the control buttons.
Game board is made up of a further detail of the same designer of LEGO, as a «dagger» and «noughts» using appropriate size pieces of two colors (for a white person necessarily, for better recognition of the robot).
The design involved all 3 engine, part of the set. Two of them – to move the carriage over the playing field, and the third – a mechanism for managing emissions checkers using traction cable. On the carriage is an active light sensor for determining the presence of the white pieces in the box game, and store at 5 checkers that «charged» before the game. Moreover, the limit switch, a mechanism to bring in original condition and the sound sensor to feed the robot voice commands like «let’s go, plastic block!».
When you start the program, the robot leads servomotor to its original state, resets the counters, the situation and invites the person to make his move. A man puts a bomb in one of the cells and provides a sound command the robot. Using rooted in memory, information about the location of cells playing field, the robot positions the carriage with a light sensor on each of the cells identified in the memory as free at the moment, in search of the white pieces, had not yet determined what kind of people did. Then, the robot decides on its response, taking advantage of a winning strategy, and introducing some variety into the game with the help of random number generator. Now the robot is to place the carriage on the selected unit, reset it to bomb and leave in the original position to open the playing field for the next turn right.
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The concept – Nao Robot
The project was launched in early 2005 and aims to make available to the general public at an affordable price, a humanoid robot with mechanical functions, electronic and cognitive worthy prototype research (see chart below). Nao should be available to the general public at the end of 2009.
Comes standard with basic behaviors, the robot will be marketing the ideal support to learn robotics and enriched many behaviors, it will become an autonomous companion for the whole family. He later evolve its role as a companion to a real job assistance for daily tasks (monitoring, tele-assistance, information, real-virtual link …).
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the mechanical robot from space
It is equipped with sensors and socket wrenches. His mission: to work on the outer part of the International Space Station. In a perfect autonomy. Dextre is the work of the Canadian Space Agency. Behind his small name, which speaks volumes about his dexterity, lies a more technical name: Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator. The robot is part of the trip that must be carried out, this week, the American shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS). It is the third and last part of a mobile maintenance module whose mounting started in 2001. Assigned to maintenance tasks outside the ISS, Dextre avoid astronauts to carry out dangerous sorties to carry out repairs to weightlessness, about 400 km altitude. All the details in the images on News.com.
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Sleep Waking Dream Robot
Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have collaborated on the project Sleep Waking robot. The brain activity related to eye movement, the REM – rapid eye movement is recorded and these data are transmitted in two ways.
A robot with a living brain
A robot that is controlled himself with his own brain composed of biological neurons in culture was manufactured by British scientists.The robot works with neurons in rats. University of Reading
This is probably the first hybrid machine / animal ever created. Gordon is “alive” since a big week in a laboratory at the University of Reading, England. His brain is composed of neurons from a fetal rat. They were placed in a solution, separated and then deposited on a bed of sixty electrodes.
This multi-electrode array (MTCT) is the interface between living tissue and machine. It allows the brain to send electrical impulses to lead the wheels, for example. And conversely, it receives information on its environment delivered by sensors.
The key here is to assess the learning capabilities of this robot with a living brain. Gordon already seems to learn by repetition. For example, when it hits a wall, brain stimulation and receives a habit he learned to work around the obstacle. The key to learning is the memory that occurs in neurons that have begun to forge connections and multiply in the brain. Continue reading