Now here is a different remote control robot. A simple sphere that can be controlled by bluetooth. Video with link to article.
Now if these had any sort of external sensing [seems to have just internal gyroscope and accelerometer], how about a flock [fleet?] of them to be used as remote sensors for other bots? eyes and fingers. At $129 each though, that would get pricey fast.
These are being taught by one of the Standford professors that taught the machine learning course that I posted last fall, plus a prof from U of Virginia.
CS 101: BUILDING A SEARCH ENGINE
CS 373: PROGRAMMING A ROBOTIC CAR
See Udacity or directly to CS 101 and CS 373
The robotic car course adds to the previous course, but the previous courses is not a requirement. CS 373 assumes strong programming knowledge, but CS 101 does not need any previous programming background.
Hey guys.
Took some footage from the deck of my brutusbot to share with everyone. Lots of work to still add, but so far 5K code out of 32K space! Lots of room left!
We’d love to see your creations! Upload a video and send the link to info AT robotgames.com and we’ll check it out!
Getting closer to ‘desktop factory’ all the time.
Printing ‘small’ parts at high resolution.
The world’s smallest 3D printer
From the picture, it looks like that connects to a computer through a standard [old style] serial cable [not USB]
The video says he built if for about 1500 € [in parts?], at todays conversion, that would be just over $2000 Canadian. He said it has the capabilities of a 60000 € commercial printer [$81100] !!
These youtube videos are from the AI course being put out by Stanford, but anyone interested in autonomous robots should enjoy this.
Jeremie and I had an opportunity to attending the announcement event for Beakerhead!
Aiming to be a fusion of science, engineering and creativity (a video presentation called to mind the kind of wacky robotic contraptions you see at Burning Man), Beakerhead is the brainchild of co-founders Jay Ingram, best known for his work with the Discovery Channel, and his partner Mary Anne Moser. Collaborating organizations at this point include the U of C’s Schulich School of Engineering, Mount Royal University,SAIT Poytechnic, Telus Spark, the Glenbow Museum and local arts groups such as the High Performance Rodeo, the Calgary Animated Objects Society and the Green Fools.
Check out http://www.beakerhead.org/ for more info!
You can also follow them on twitter @Beakerhead
I’ve been following the online AI class from Stanford. Included in that was a video with descriptive commentary of the robot that won the DARPA challenge. The video is also on youtube. The ‘trick’ was to overlay very accurate but short range laser sensor data, with much less accurate but long range camera vision, to ‘infer’ what was further ahead than it could see with the lasers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q1xFdQfq5Fk
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