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Dextre Heralds a New Age in Robotics
Published on 18 Mar 2008 at 9:39 pm.
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Filed under Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology.
During the second spacewalk of the STS-123 mission, the crew began assembling Dextre. Dextre is the newest member of the International Space Station’s Mobile Servicing System, and will act as a repair and construction robot for the ISS’s exterior. Dextre is enormous “standing” or rather floating at 12 feet tall. He has an 8 foot shoulder space [...]
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Matlab Package for LEGO Mindstorms
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 11:16 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Fun, Intelligent Systems, Lego, NXT, Research, Robotics, Software, Technology.
I recently received a comment on my post on controlling NXT robots with Matlab that pointed me to the RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB®, which is a public domain Matlab package that enables one to interface with and control LEGO mindstorms.
The RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB® was developed as a student project in [...]
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Sarcos Exoskeletons to be used by Army
Published on 10 Jan 2008 at 4:11 am.
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Filed under Inventions, Research, Robotics, Technology.
Sarcos is a company that specializes in robotic systems. They have been working to develop exoskeletons that will give ordinary people super-human strength. The age of the super-hero and super-villian is upon us!
The video below shows their exoskeleton in action:
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CLARAty Reusable Robotics Software
Published on 10 Jan 2008 at 3:49 am.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Robotics, Software, Solutions, Space, Technology.
CLARAty (Coupled-Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy) is a framework for reusable robotics software. It was developed in part by my former colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center in collaboration with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Minnesota (my alma matter).
They are in the process of making the framework and several modules publicly available.
Videos of [...]
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Social Justice, Solutions, Technology.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 [...]
