Cool stuff indeed ... commentary from those w/ robotics expertise would be
appreciated...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/cmu-cmu042407.php
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots
that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with
I've been using the Charmed Labs Qwerk for over a month now and it is a very
neat system which brings together in a single device many of the things
which traditionally are separate, such as computers, digital analog I/O
boards, vision systems, Servo control, etc. Integrating these diverse
A couple of images of the robot which I'm developing, which uses the
Qwerk.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/459084802_33a784930e_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/247/461423164_1d7176c14a_b.jpg
Cool!
That robot looks like it can see things and move around, but not manipulate
Well you've correctly anticipated the next step. I'm adding a manipulator
arm, which is only a little shorter than an adult human arm, so that the
robot will be capable of doing a few useful jobs. The intention here is to
use it for things like sweeping, mopping or dusting.
The robot, which
On 4/26/07, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well you've correctly anticipated the next step. I'm adding a manipulator
arm, which is only a little shorter than an adult human arm, so that the
robot will be capable of doing a few useful jobs. The intention here is to
use it for things like
At the moment I'm thinking of robotics in a Moravecian manner, where the
main purpose is to perform very utilitarian labour saving chores, but as
some of the projects on the TeRK site suggest there may be a whole variety
of unconventional uses for robots which few people have ever tried simply
Bob Mottram wrote:
I have thought about making a robotic artist in the distant past. Some of
the first robots which I remember seeing in the 1980s used the LOGO language
to produce sketches using different coloured pens. You could maybe do
something similar to that, with a mouse-like body
