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Line Tracking Robot Mouse Kit
2007-11-12 03:33:00
If you want to engineer a satellite tracking system someday, you have to start somewhere. How about learning circuitry with a Line -Tracking Mouse ? This 6″ x 4-1/2″ robot has a transparent mouse-shaped plastic case over its electronics, making him almost 3″ tall. He has (3) photo interrupters that project infrared rays and distinguish between black ...
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Line Follower Robot
2007-11-11 09:39:00
Line Follower ROBOT Plermjai Inchuay, plermjai@loxinfo.co.th Award winner from VingPeaw Competition 2543, the robot built with 2051, L293D, and four IR sensors. Simple circuit and platform, quick tracking and easy-understand program using C language. I designed my Robot , which use two motors control rear wheels and the single front wheel is free. It has 4-infrared sensors ...
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Why can?t American consumers handle the future that robotics is willing to
2007-11-11 08:45:00
Someday the robots will rise up and kill us all. They’ll record our lives, obliterate our privacy, set off nuclear war, and eventually turn on us and eat our brains. If any of this ever did happen, it would serve us right. We, at least American consumers, don’t deserve the future that robots really have ...
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Students Conquer Roboting Challenges
2007-11-10 08:33:00
Today?s schoolchildren are getting a healthy dose of robotics ? the newest of the three Rs ? in an effort to inspire more American students to pursue careers in engineering, science, technology and math. In Galveston County, schoolchildren as young as 6 and as old as 18 are meeting after school to design, build and program ...
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Line Follower Sensor
2007-11-09 09:44:00
The circuit diagram for the Line Follow Sensor board is shown below: The board is connected directly to the Light IO board via PL4. This circuit is very simple. +5V is applied via PL4 pin 4 to the circuit, and 0V is connected to pin 1 ...
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Innovation First Brings Robotics to the Classroom
2007-11-09 08:33:00
With robotics playing an ever more integral role in STEM education, Innovation First, the company behind a wide range of robotics initiatives, has launched a new online resource targeted directly toward K-12 and post-secondary education. Innovation First provides robotics programs to about 140,000 students around the world (making up about 12,000 teams), and just last month ...
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Adept Technology Extends Robotics Distribution Into Brazil
2007-11-09 08:26:00
Adept Technology Extends Robotics Distribution Into Brazil LIVERMORE, Calif.CA-ADEPT-TECHNOLOGY Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), the leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with MAR Industries to distribute the company?s full product line in Brazil. The relationship between the companies accelerates Adept?s distribution strategy and provides customers ...

What Is Cybernetics?
2007-09-15 12:14:00
Cybernetics was defined by Norbert Wiener, in his book of that title, as the study of control and communication in the animal and the machine. Stafford Beer called it the science of effective organization and Gordon Pask extended it to include information flows “in all media” from stars to brains. It includes the study of ...

Cognitive robotics
2007-09-15 12:08:00
Cognitive robotics (CR) is concerned with endowing robots with high-level cognitive capabilities to enable the achievement of complex goals in complex environments using limited computational resources. Robotic cognitive capabilities include perception processing, attention allocation, anticipation, planning, reasoning about other agents, and reasoning about their own mental states. Robotic cognition embodies the behaviour of intelligent agents in ...
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Robot Code of Ethics to Prevent Android Abuse, Protect Humans
2007-09-09 09:50:00
The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots?and vice versa. The so-called Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots, South Korea’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy ...
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Biomorphic Robotics
2007-08-11 08:42:00
Biomorphic robotics is a sub-discipline of robotics focused upon emulating the mechanics, sensor systems, computing structures and methodologies used by animals. In short, it is building robots inspired by the principles of biological systems. One of the most prominent researchers in the field of biomorphic robotics has been Mark W. Tilden, who has taken Rodney Brooks’ ...
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Robot Kinematics
2007-08-11 08:33:00
Robot kinematics is the study of the motion (kinematics) of robots. In a kinematic analysis the position, velocity and acceleration of all the links are calculated without considering the forces that cause this motion. The relationship between motion, and the associated forces and torques is studied in robot dynamics. One of the most active areas ...
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SCARA Robot
2007-07-27 06:18:00
The SCARA acronym stands for Selective Compliant Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm. In general, traditional SCARA?s are 4-axis robot arms, i.e., they can move to any X-Y-Z coordinate within their work envelope. There is a fourth axis of motion which is the wrist rotate (Theta-Z). The ?X?, ?Y? and the ?Theta-Z? movements ...
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Biorobotic Technology
2007-07-27 06:11:00
Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study. Biorobotics is often used to refer to a real subfield of robotics: studying how to make robots that emulate or simulate living biological organisms mechanically or even chemically. The term is also used in a reverse ...
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Mobile Robot
2007-07-25 04:58:00
Overview Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location. In contrast, industrial robots usually consist of a jointed arm (multi-linked manipulator) and gripper assembly (or end effector) that is attached to a fixed surface. Mobile robots are the focus of a great deal of current research ...
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Swarm robotics
2007-07-23 04:57:00
—————— ;—————̵ 2;—————R 12;————— Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of large numbers of relatively simple physical robots. The goal of this approach is to study the design of robots (both their physical body and their controlling behaviors) such that a desired collective behavior emerges from the inter-robot interactions and the ...
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RoboCup Competitions
2007-07-21 04:42:00
RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition’s full name, “Robot Soccer World Cup”. The official goal of the project: By ...
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What Is Mechatronics..?
2007-07-20 12:32:00
Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of mechanical engineering (”mecha” for mechanisms, i.e., machines that ‘move’), electronic engineering (”tronics” for electronics), and software engineering. The purpose of this interdisciplinary engineering field is the study of automata from an engineering perspective and serves the purposes of controlling advanced hybrid systems.
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Robotic Arms and Robotics
2007-07-16 14:28:00
Author: Gordon Petten The word robot comes from the Czech word “robota”, meaning “forced labor.” The stuff of science fiction robotics in the 21st century is different than your parents or your grandparents’ ideas of robotics. What used to be thought of as futuristic improbability is now becoming a reality. There are, theoretically, three Laws of ...
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There?s a Robot in Our House!
2007-07-16 11:06:00
by:James Monahan “AI.” “Bicentennial Man.” “The Jetsons.” “Richie Rich.” “I, Robot .” These films and TV programs may have elicited various emotions and opinions from the viewers. Indeed, these movies and shows have unveiled the different sides of robots. However, they still point out a certain fact — that robots, or robotic devices, are smart, ...
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Important Projects in the World
2007-07-16 11:01:00
Author: Subhash At any given moment, millions of scientists, researchers, programmers and others, are working for the common good. Some have selfish motivations, and others may not understand the import of their work but in the end we may all benefit from their endeavors. Since we do not know what the future holds, it ...
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Robot Definition
2007-07-11 12:02:00
A robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent. A robot is usually an electromechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The word robot can refer to both physical robots and virtual software agents, but the latter are often shortened to bots. While ...
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