Robot battles part Deux!
Here are some nifty robots that we've all seen before. Except in japan its more of a sport to program them to fight rather than dance. Can anyone say we are in the kindergarten stages of the Terminator?
Exoskeleton Madness
Talk about way cool! Exoskeletons - border line robotics! hrmm interesting. How far away are we from a robotic army of some sort? Or something like in the Matrix or Alens. Not to far off I'd imagine from this video.
However - don't think that these things have the range of motion yet for some hand to hand combat. Let alone a bullet to the computer controlling the damn thing. Imagine a crash - might break the person in half.
Spookie Horse Bot!
Free blogs
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Open Automation Project
Browsing the web today in search for some intersting robotic software ideas - I stumbled across this project space on the web.
Check them out when you get a chance @ http://oap.sourceforge.net/
Robotic Operating Systems
Doing some research on robotic operating systems - I've found several out there. DROS and ROS. DROS is an open source robotic operating system which seems to be very crude in nature. It actually seems more like a framework than an operating system. The DROS framework consists of support functions for modular programming and modules for mobile robots. In fact - its still in its early stages of development.
Similar to DROS - ROS is also very crude. ROS is currently being developed by Animusoft - s small software development company based in South Florida. It looks like their goal is to build the defacto operating system. In it is generic and concrete at the same time. It boasts speech capability/recognition, visual recognition, movement, position, olfaction, as well as some advanced form of artificial intelligence to drive the actual operating system.
Both of these operating systems have some interesting concepts. It seems that ROS was in research and development stages back in 1997 - however - Animusoft has since gone full steam ahead with ROS and plans to ship ROS within the following years.
Visit the Animusoft website for further information @ http://wiki.animusoft.com/Ros.ashx
Robots Drawing
Now some of us might call this as nothing more than a plotter with the shape of some humanoid robot. But what is it actually doing? Any ideas?
Microsoft Robotics Group
Microsoft is starting to get the idea when it comes to robotics. The released the robotic sdk and and now this. Check it out. Goes in detail into what they are doing. Very very interesting!
Rubix Cube Solve Robot!
Interesting enough - this robot sovles the rubix cube!
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