Sunday, April 10, 2005


IEEE - Tracked robot top-view

IEEE - Top angle of tracked robot

IEEE - Front-on of tracked robot

IEEE - Lego based - prototyped

IEEE - Lego-based robot workspace

IEEE - LSU give it another test run

Downloading some new code during testing

IEEE - Checking the alignment

IEEE - LSU testing

IEEE - Taking a break between rounds

IEEE - Karta

IEEE - Robot with sonar on top

IEEE - On the work-table

IEEE - Neat setup

IEEE - Nice view of the robot with white tires

IEEE - View of the big screens

IEEE - Holding the start button

IEEE - Hitting a wall is a penalty - good thing it was a test

IEEE - Powering on the 4-pack robot

IEEE - Testing the 4-pack robot

IEEE - Test - it has the can without touching Barbie

IEEE - One group making last minute changes and testing on their own platform

IEEE - A robot has a can

IEEE - Radio modem sends the dispatch orders to the robots

IEEE - Testing close to the Barbie

IEEE - Kerwin is M.C., Ken assisting

IEEE - The course is visable on the big screen

IEEE - The crowd watch on

IEEE - Ultrasonics play big in this design

IEEE - Setting on the line in room 1

IEEE - Radio modem antenna plainly visable

IEEE - Another Lego-based frame

IEEE - 4-pack robot

IEEE - The most coverings on a robot

IEEE - Big white wheels

IEEE - Almost ready to go

IEEE - Lego chassis gives it a go

IEEE - Testing communications

IEEE - 3 - 2 - 1 - Start

IEEE - catcher team starting

IEEE - Another starting

IEEE - A catcher instead of a gripper

IEEE - Starting room - getting ready to place the robot

IEEE - Getting ready to start

IEEE - Kerwin cleaning the code dots

IEEE - Front on view on a chair

IEEE - Codes down the center line for decoding location

IEEE - Don't knock over the workers in the wearhouse - played by Barbies

IEEE- After-match testing

IEEE - Packing up

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Music: Blue Man Group Go Robotic

Music: Blue Man Group Go Robotic

Blue Man Group (those guys from the Pentium 3 commercials) are involved in the music for the upcoming movie Robots

Monday, November 29, 2004

Rosie - Doctor's Telepresense Robot

NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source

Allows doctors to make an extra round, improving care.

I'm not sure I would want to be visited by a Waldo doctor. It sounds impersonal. Yet if it got me better care, it might be worth it. I'm not sure a networked teleconference system in each room might not be more effective. It would remove the time for the robot to toddle from one room to the next. Because effectively that is all these robots are - portable video cameras with a TV for a closed-circuit teleconference.

DIY Ordnance Disposal With An RC Truck

Tackle Design, Inc. - projects - project: ORD
Sometimes there are cheaper solutions based on off-the-shelf parts.

Found on: Slashdot - DIY Ordnance Disposal With An RC Truck

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

New Shape-shifting Robot

Article: Shape-shifting robot shows off its moves - New Scientist
The prototype robot - called ATRON - demonstrated its various metamorphoses in Tokyo on Wednesday.
ATRON is constructed from many identical, broadly spherical modules, each 11 centimetres in diameter.

Monday, November 08, 2004