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| Photo Detectors |
| 2008-01-01 08:01:13 |
Photosensors or photodetectors are sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy. There are several varieties:
Most optical detectors are quantum devices in which an individual photon produces a discrete effect.
* Chemical detectors, such as photographic plates, in which a silver halide molecule is split into an atom of metallic silver and a halogen atom. The photographic [...]...
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| LEGO Mindstorms NXT |
| 2007-12-30 20:06:42 |
Sure, Mindstorms NXT is a toy, but it is an important toy, like a piano or a chemistry set. It’s one of those items that engages an imagination and possibly opens doors to new interests. Since our future is surely to be shared with robots–it’s already started happening, just look at Roomba–those robots will need, [...]...
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| Students Hone Skills With Robotics |
| 2007-12-30 20:03:03 |
PALMER - Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School had great success in its first robotics competition last spring and during this academic year the school will not only compete but also host the Massachusetts regional tournament.
It means a lot of work for electronics technology teacher Eric A. Duda, but he is up for it.
“The educational [...]...
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| ABB Robotics/AFC Stamping and Production, Inc. |
| 2007-12-30 19:55:56 |
AFC Stamping and Production, Inc. produces finished components used in power sports and automotive applications, and automotive stampings that have welded components.
The Dayton, Ohio, company was established in 1989, and employs 100 people. It is a subsidiary of FC Industries, whose family of companies includes Barsplice Products Inc., AFC Tool Inc., Dayton Precision Punch and [...]...
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| Politics and Robotics Choices |
| 2007-12-30 19:49:34 |
Without strong public interest, Legislature could hold upper hand on project’s location
MONTGOMERY — If Alabama’s rumored tight finances let Gov. Bob Riley move forward with his dream robotics campus in 2008, an economist says a campus closest to Huntsville makes financial sense.
But political experts say you can’t leave the Legislature out of the equation if [...]...
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| The Difference Between Stepper Motors, Servos, and RC Servos |
| 2007-12-30 19:37:48 |
Stepper motors:
A stepper motor’s shaft has permanet magnets attached to it. Around the body of the motor is a series of coils that create a magnetic field that interacts with the permanet magnets. When these coils are turned on and off the magnetic field causes the rotor to move. As the coils [...]...
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| WowWee Robosapien Version 2 Humanoid Robot |
| 2007-12-30 03:01:12 |
Robosapien Version 2 is the next generation of Robosapien technology and personality from Wowwee. This new member of the robotic family comes with more advanced dynamic motion, interactive sensors, new program functions, speech capability, and a personality all his own. It’s clear from the start that he enjoys bowling, dancing, and having conversations.
Movement
RobosapienV2 is able [...]...
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| Line Follower Sensor |
| 2007-12-23 19:09:19 |
The circuit diagram for the Line Follow Sensor board is shown below:
The board is connected directly to the Light IO board via PL4.
This circuit is very simple. +5V is applied via PL4 pin 4 to the circuit, and 0V is connected to pin 1 of PL4. When power [...]...
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| Line Tracking Robot Mouse Kit |
| 2007-12-14 19:47:41 |
If you want to engineer a satellite tracking system someday, you have to start somewhere. How about learning circuitry with a Line-Tracking Mouse? This 6″ x 4-1/2″ robot has a transparent mouse-shaped plastic case over its electronics, making him almost 3″ tall. He has (3) photo interrupters that project infrared rays and distinguish between black [...]...
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| Future Of Consumer Robotics May Rest On Toy Dinosaur |
| 2007-11-27 00:46:01 |
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) — A small green and tan dinosaur slowly wandered across the table in an airy Emeryville, Calif., office space. As it plodded to the end of the table, one plastic hoof started to step off the ledge and instead it felt thin air. It slowly backed up and murmured a little [...]...
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| Waiakea High’s Robotics Team Captures First Place |
| 2007-11-21 20:33:40 |
Waiakea High School’s robotics team this month took a first-place award in the 16th annual International Microbot competition held in Japan.
Facing off against several college teams from across Asia, students representing the Hilo school won the Fully Autonomous Micro Robot Maze Competition with a robot named Teeny Humuhumu.
The team took third place in the Micro [...]...
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| Robots - the Future of Eldercare |
| 2007-11-21 19:19:12 |
Advances in technology have been astounding over the last decade. Electronics are starting to be built into everything from vacuums to toothbrushes and slowly, but surely, computers will become an invaluable part of every aspect of daily living. Someday, you’ll be able to take a shower and the bathroom will not only detect you, it [...]...
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| FANUC Robotics and Flexicell Host Intelligent Robotic Applications Forum |
| 2007-11-21 00:33:50 |
FANUC Robotics America, Inc. and Flexicell will demonstrate the latest intelligent robotic solutions for assembly, machine tending, picking, packing and palletizing at Flexicell?s facility in Ashland, VA, Nov. 28-29, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event will feature robot system demonstrations, interactive presentations, and breakout seminars on FANUC Robotics? new LR Mate 200iC LEAN (light, [...]...
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| Students Conquer Roboting Challenges |
| 2007-11-13 19:12:26 |
Today’s schoolchildren are getting a healthy dose of robotics — the newest of the three Rs — in an effort to inspire more American students to pursue careers in engineering, science, technology and math.
In Galveston County, schoolchildren as young as 6 and as old as 18 are meeting after school to design, build and program [...]...
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| Innovation First Brings Robotics to the Classroom |
| 2007-11-10 19:06:17 |
With robotics playing an ever more integral role in STEM education, Innovation First, the company behind a wide range of robotics initiatives, has launched a new online resource targeted directly toward K-12 and post-secondary education.
Innovation First provides robotics programs to about 140,000 students around the world (making up about 12,000 teams), and just last month [...]...
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| Adept Technology Extends Robotics Distribution Into Brazil |
| 2007-11-10 18:25:10 |
Adept Technology Extends Robotics Distribution Into BrazilLIVERMORE, Calif.CA-ADEPT-TECHNOLOGY
Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), the leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with MAR Industries to distribute the company?s full product line in Brazil. The relationship between the companies accelerates Adept?s distribution strategy and provides customers [...]...
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| What Is Cybernetics? |
| 2007-09-29 20:07:51 |
Cybernetics was defined by Norbert Wiener, in his book of that title, as the study of control and communication in the animal and the machine. Stafford Beer called it the science of effective organization and Gordon Pask extended it to include information flows “in all media” from stars to brains. It includes the study of [...]...
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| Cognitive robotics |
| 2007-09-29 20:06:35 |
Cognitive robotics (CR) is concerned with endowing robots with high-level cognitive capabilities to enable the achievement of complex goals in complex environments using limited computational resources.
Robotic cognitive capabilities include perception processing, attention allocation, anticipation, planning, reasoning about other agents, and reasoning about their own mental states. Robotic cognition embodies the behaviour of intelligent agents in [...]...
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| Biomorphic Robotics |
| 2007-09-08 20:25:52 |
Biomorphic robotics is a sub-discipline of robotics focused upon emulating the mechanics, sensor systems, computing structures and methodologies used by animals. In short, it is building robots inspired by the principles of biological systems.
One of the most prominent researchers in the field of biomorphic robotics has been Mark W. Tilden, who has taken Rodney Brooks’ [...]...
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| Robot Kinematics |
| 2007-09-08 20:21:25 |
Robot kinematics is the study of the motion (kinematics) of robots. In a kinematic analysis the position, velocity and acceleration of all the links are calculated without considering the forces that cause this motion. The relationship between motion, and the associated forces and torques is studied in robot dynamics. One of the most active areas [...]...
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| SCARA Robot |
| 2007-07-26 23:18:16 |
The SCARA acronym stands for Selective Compliant Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm.
In general, traditional SCARA’s are 4-axis robot arms, i.e., they can move to any X-Y-Z coordinate within their work envelope. There is a fourth axis of motion which is the wrist rotate (Theta-Z). The ‘X’, ‘Y’ and the ‘Theta-Z’ movements [...]...
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| Biorobotic Technology |
| 2007-07-26 23:11:01 |
Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study.
Biorobotics is often used to refer to a real subfield of robotics: studying how to make robots that emulate or simulate living biological organisms mechanically or even chemically. The term is also used in a reverse [...]...
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| Mobile Robot |
| 2007-07-24 21:58:34 |
Overview
Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location. In contrast, industrial robots usually consist of a jointed arm (multi-linked manipulator) and gripper assembly (or end effector) that is attached to a fixed surface.
Mobile robots are the focus of a great deal of current research [...]...
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| Swarm robotics |
| 2007-07-22 21:57:59 |
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Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of large numbers of relatively simple physical robots. The goal of this approach is to study the design of robots (both their physical body and their controlling behaviors) such that a desired collective behavior emerges from the inter-robot interactions and the [...]...
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| RoboCup Competitions |
| 2007-07-20 21:42:45 |
RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition’s full name, “Robot Soccer World Cup”.
The official goal of the project:
By [...]...
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| What Is Mechatronics..? |
| 2007-07-20 05:32:52 |
Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of mechanical engineering (”mecha” for mechanisms, i.e., machines that ‘move’), electronic engineering (”tronics” for electronics), and software engineering. The purpose of this interdisciplinary engineering field is the study of automata from an engineering perspective and serves the purposes of controlling advanced hybrid systems....
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| Robotic Arms and Robotics |
| 2007-07-16 07:28:59 |
Author: Gordon Petten
The word robot comes from the Czech word “robota”, meaning “forced labor.” The stuff of science fiction robotics in the 21st century is different than your parents or your grandparents’ ideas of robotics. What used to be thought of as futuristic improbability is now becoming a reality.
There are, theoretically, three Laws of [...]...
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| There’s a Robot in Our House! |
| 2007-07-16 04:06:19 |
by:James Monahan
“AI.” “Bicentennial Man.” “The Jetsons.” “Richie Rich.” “I, Robot.” These films and TV programs may have elicited various emotions and opinions from the viewers.
Indeed, these movies and shows have unveiled the different sides of robots. However, they still point out a certain fact — that robots, or robotic devices, are smart, [...]...
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| Important Projects in the World |
| 2007-07-16 04:01:25 |
Author: Subhash
At any given moment, millions of scientists, researchers, programmers and others, are working for the common good. Some have selfish motivations, and others may not understand the import of their work but in the end we may all benefit from their endeavors. Since we do not know what the future holds, it [...]...
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| Robot Definition |
| 2007-07-11 05:02:42 |
A robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent. A robot is usually an electromechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The word robot can refer to both physical robots and virtual software agents, but the latter are often shortened to bots.
While [...]...
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