The University at Albany (SUNY) has highlighted Knuth’s research in a recent news piece.
UAlbany Professor Kevin Knuth with a robot built from LEGOs. (Photo Mark Schmidt)
Kevin Knuth has a laboratory in the physics department of the University at Albany that is filled with LEGOs. The bricks are relatively cheap and can be used to rapidly prototype a robot’s body. Knuth’s robots are being programmed to solve such problems as mapping complex terrain.
At UAlbany Day on Saturday, Oct. 25, he will give a demonstration on Robotics and Robotic Exploration in Life Sciences Room 143 at 10:45 a.m.
http://www.albany.edu/news/update_4522.shtml
Building instructions for the robot shown in the UAlbany article can be found on Brickengineer.com
Visit Autonomous Exploration News for information on Knuth’s company Autonomous Exploration Inc.
Visit Robots Everywhere for a general blog on robotics news.
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This post was written by drknuth on October 21, 2008
About article : Knuth: Developing Robotic Scientists for Space Exploration http://www.albany.edu/news/update_4522.shtml
I would very much like to how he uses it as a prototype, such as:
- what is it supposed to do
- what software platform he uses including firmware and programming language
- any special structural mechanic or sensors to this prototype?
I’d like to explore this prototype in our lesson to our students. Help is greatly appreciated!
Sorry, I posted a bit early. I found the firmware & programming language, as ways as the building and sensors used. However, the most important piece of information (at least to me anyway) is not found. that is : What is it supposed to simulate? What is the simulation for? I noticed that it has bumper, and ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles.