I want one of these. On 2nd thoughts, make that 10!
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Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Stanford University scientists have developed AI Robot helicopters that learn by observing other helicopters in motion. The maneavours performed are not simple ones of just taking off but complex heart pounding motions that would make the passengers throw up. Luckily for us, these are not full size choppers but an off-the-shelf radio controlled toy helicopter, with instrumentation added by the researchers.
Stanford's artificial intelligence system learned how to fly by "watching" the four-foot-long helicopters flown by expert radio control pilot Garett Oku. This is no mean feat and is an indication of the world we are heading to - Super intelligent machines. Hopefully, it doesn't mean destruction of man. Visit Stanford's Autonomous helicopter website for related publications, pictures and videos of this project.
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Are you the sort who likes building things for a hobby? Want to spend your idle time in the weekend building a bookshelf instead of buying one? As a kid, did you spend your time dismantling your toy car to get to the motor and do cool stuff with it? If so, instructables is the website to help you get back on track to Doing It Yourself (DIY).
Instructables is split into various sections like Art, Craft, Food, Games, Green, Home, Kids, Life, Music, Offbeat, Outdoors, Pets, Ride, Science, Sports and Tech. Instructables features user created DIY content presented as step by step procedures for clear building instructions.
Some interesting instructables I came across:
1) Building a Solar Powered R/C car
2) How I built an electricity producing wind turbine
3) Chess table
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India's skyrocketing economy is producing tons of electronic waste like discarded computers & televisions. Though we can't help throwing away those things that don't work and well get the junk status from us, there are a few things that we can keep as souvenirs.
Blog.makezine.com has some interesting ideas. The 1-megabit cufflinks and Capacitor Robot Charm.
Fzkl and I had plans of making burned out chip set earining - chic don't ya think?
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From the makers of Dog, the incredible walking/running robot, comes Rise, the wall climbing robot.
To quote Boston dynamics:
RiSE is a small six-legged robot that climbs vertical terrain such as walls, trees and fences. RiSE’s feet have claws, micro-claws or sticky material, depending on the climbing surface. RiSE changes posture to conform to the curvature of the climbing surface and a fixed tail helps RiSE balance on steep ascents. RiSE is about 0.25 m long, weighs 2 kg, and travels 0.3 m/s.
Each of RiSE’s six legs is powered by two electric motors. An onboard computer controls leg motion, manages communications, and services a variety of sensors. The sensors include an inertial measurement unit, joint position sensors for each leg, leg strain sensors and foot contact sensors.
Future versions of RiSE will use dry adhesion to climb sheer vertical surfaces such as glass and metal. Boston Dynamics is developing RiSE in conjunction with researchers at University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Stanford, and Lewis and Clark University. RiSE is funded by the DARPA Defense Sciences Office.
If you like robots, be sure to check out Boston dynamics big dog here
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Having done sufficient experiments in robotics, I know what a feat of achievement it is to build an electro-mechanical device that can navigate terrain like how real animals do. While staying in balance, running, walking, sliding, skiing and other bodily movements sound very trivial to humans and animals (because we can do this very subconsciously without much of an effort), achieving even a simple task like climbing a stair case is an enormous deal as far as robots are concerned. The processing power needed to take into account friction, center of gravity and other properties of the environment around us to successfully navigate a terrain is humongous.
What Boston dynamics has achieved with Big dog (the ugly black thing in the video) is nothing short of incredible. It is an amazing feeling to see achievements like this that I can associate so much with.
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