I made some pictures of my telepresence robot so far. The covers are not on to let you see the inside. I used this pictures also at the telepresence robot project page.
Tag: Robot
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Dancing Robots
Today I added a video at the YouTube playlist. It’s not world news, but it’s nice to see. Twenty Nao robots developed by Aldebaran Robotics are ‘dancing’ in this video. If you can make one robot dance, you can make 20 robot dance too. The all have a WiFi connection to sync them.
More interesting would be a real interaction between the robots like giving each other an arm and turning circles together. Maybe we see this in a next video from this company. They should hire a choreographer to make it more interesting.
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URI (User Robot Interface)
What is the best description and abbreviation for a Interface from a robot? If you work in the Industrial automation you probably will use Human Machine Interface (HMI) and if you are a software programmer you maybe call it GUI (Graphical User Interface). At the moment I prefer URI (User Robot Interface) because it describes the interaction between the Human and the Robot. Of course we can discus if a machine you have to control is really a robot, but lets assume the robot can also operate by itself.
This items is also added to the User Interface article at Software.
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Compass code added
The project for testing the Compass module CMPS03 has now a program in C++ for testing the readings on a linux machine.
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Robots learning through Internet
Together with six other European research organizations the University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) is developing a database for robotics to share information about behavior. Robots don’t have to find out al tasks by itself.
The project is called RoboEarth and is a kind of World Wide Web for robots and makes learning a lot faster. Purpose is to let robots perform unplanned tasks in unknown environments not initial build in the machine. Through a wireless connection the robot can ‘search’ the database for new solutions for a specific tasks.
I am little bit afraid for this scenario , because if have seen the ‘I Robot’ movie. This extreme scenario will never happen, but security is a real issue then. If the robot downloads the wrong information. The tasks ‘Get me some coffee’ is changed into: ‘shoot the neighbors’ or something like that. The research project is 4 years long and has a budget from 5,6 million Euros.
Read the news from article(dutch) at:
http://w3.tue.nl/nl/nieuws/artikel/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=8960&tx_ttnews[backPid]=361&cHash=9c1fdbde4c