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NASA Robotics Education Project |
A Full-On Cool site with links to hosted robot competitions like USFirst & Botball, as well as exciting "Robot Headlines" & rotating "Spotlight" stories on NASA 'bots, & a Students section offering features like "Ask a Robotics Expert! ", "Be a NASA REP Volunteer!" & "Cool Links!" |
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Project Management / Tracking / VR Simulation Resources NASA JPL "Distributed Collaborative Engineering (DCE)"
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Donna Shirley has written an online ebook that is an excellent tool for managing a high-tech startup, called "Managing Creativity"'.
A great companion tool to Donna's
methodology is "Distributive Collaborative Engineering (DCE)",
a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) method of Space Mission Planning making
heavy use of off-the-shelf videoconferencing software. Here are the details on all. |
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The
Robot Zoo |
The Robot Zoo is a world where nature engineers animals as robots. Where technology animates larger-than-life creatures as master-planned machines. Where brains become computers, muscles become pistons and ears become ultrasensitive sonar receptors". To find our where the zoo is currently stampeding, visit BBH's Robot Zoo schedule at http://www.bbhinc.net/zoo.html.The San Jose Tech Museum hosts an online exhibit. |
| Iguana Robotics |
The World of Biomorphic Robotics |
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"RobotCafe.com is a privately-funded internet startup dedicated to creating a vertical portal devoted entirely to the world of Robotics" |
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The place for robot maniacs of all ages. We have toys, kits, tools, videos, image galleries, news, forums, links and much more. |
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Microrobot |
Founded in Seoul, Korea in 1995... Microrobot has expanded to the point where we now produce a comprehensive line of robot kits... MicroRobot has focused on producing high quality robot kits for both the educational and recreational user...they embody the principles of robotics and mechatronics, and guide the beginner into this very exciting field... we have branched out somewhat and have developed research tools such as an Inverted Pendulum and a... Soccer Robot Arcade Game, proving that robotics can be a lot of fun." |
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K-Team S.A Khepera II
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"K-Team develops, manufactures and markets a family of high quality mobile
robotic platforms for use in education and research. The team's experience in the field of mobile robotics applications allows it to
provide best of breed solutions to the most demanding academic and commercial research laboratories in the world.
With more than one third of the overall population of research mobile robots, K-Team robotics and control development solutions are the choice of over 500 universities and industrial research centers becoming a de facto standard." Check out Khepera II, a miniature mobile robot. |
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Kyle A. Kline's |
"This site is intended for research purposes only. It is designed to be a guide to sites offering Robotics Research, Information, Kits, Parts, Sensors..." |
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"Welcome to Pololu! Our infrared beacon and dual serial motor controller are now available." |
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Acceleration
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The Acceleration Sensing Glove (virtual keyboard) was designed to demonstrate that accelerometers can be used to decipher and translate hand gestures into computer interepreted symbols |
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Computer Vision |
An important application of adaptive technology is computer
vision. This is a subset of spectral sensing, a field of work that helps us to understand and assess the world around us without having to be physically present. We have approached the subject of computer vision previously, and this column provides additional information. |
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Exoskeletons will give soldiers the ability to move faster while carrying more weight. Basically, an exoskeleton is a wearable machine that gives a human enhanced abilities. |
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A hobbyist with a lot of time on his hands has built a Lego robot that can solve Rubik's Cube, nestling it in hands made of plastic bricks |
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Each NanoMuscle Actuator is a complete motion system designed to make adding movement to digital systems easier and more affordable. A NanoMuscle Actuator consists of a NanoMuscle Motor and a NanoMuscle Interface integrated into a tiny, low cost package containing all required drive electronics, position sensors, and control logic. With numerous models available today, NanoMuscle Actuators span a wide performance envelope. (emailed by Joe Springer, SFRSA Robot Book Reviewer) |
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"The Control And Embedded Systems site is for anyone who (emailed by Joe Reeder from Learn-C) |
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Virtual Reality Glove. Essential Reality's P5 Glove Controller allows the user "To digitally 'walk' through an online room or actually 'pick up' objects in a video game...by the simple movement of your hand in space…" & costs $129. |
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Fuel Cell Powered Bicycle |
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Battlebots
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Early Cyborg  |
"Robot
driven by a living brain", (emailed by Robotics enthusiast Neil Cresswell) |
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"link up the intricate pieces and connect them to a remote-control-operated motorized square to produce a shape-shifting robotic 'Hornet' or 'Hopper.'.. 'imagine..creating behaviors... oozing, and morphing.' " (Discover, where it reads "Chuck Hoberman") |
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Automata from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre |
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre offers kits for making Automata & a website featuring Virtual Reality animations of the creations. |
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Robots in the Arts Artists
using Robots and Machines |
Kevin DiPalma, (fellow '67 Grad from SFRSA Mediameister Cliff Thompson's High School "Villa St. Jean"), sends these links on "Artists using Robots and
Machines". Kevin notes that one "Swiss sculptor, Jean Tinguely, whose 'metamatics' were robots combining sound, movement and painting, was born in Fribourg", Switzerland, where the High School was located - Thanks Kevin! |
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JPL's Web Interface For Telescience (WITS) Web-browser based planetary lander and rover control software includes a public version you can download and use on your own computer. |
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Pyramid Exploring Robot's Mysterious Discovery |
Excerpt from Solos
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USFirst & Founder / Inventor / Roboticist Dean Kamen |
USFirst Site |
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ID Tech Camps - Programming & Robotics Summer Camps! |
iD Tech
Camps: Hands-On Technology Fun! [www.internalDrive.com]
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FRED (Functional Response Emulation Devices). |
Software developer & robotics enthusiast Neil Cresswell sends along news of Robotics & AI Chat Programs, particularly Turing-tested Robot Conversationalists. |
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Humanoids |
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Amigobot |
Amigobot
evolved from SRI's AI Center ActivMedia Robotics Group Pioneer platform. |
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Mobot, Inc |
Mobot, Inc's Sage, Bugbot & Lemming |
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International Space Station Robots |
Canadian Mobile Servicing System (MSS)
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Japan's
ROBODEX 2000 EXHIBITORS
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"World's first exposition of human
partner robots". |
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Animal Behavior & Robot Control Systems VR 3D Kinematic Animation Modeling with Physics Properties Resources |
Animation
Poly-PEDAL Laboratory |
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Sony
Dream Robot |
Honda's P# series humanoids have company! |
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NEC's Personal Robot Project's Personal Robot "PaPeRo" |
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iRobot |
iRobot-LE, a Web Controllable Wireless Telepresence Stair Climber Avatar Rover from Rod Brooks, the Chairman and CTO of iRobot. Mr. Brooks is also the director of the MIT AI Lab, creator of COG, and the founder of IS Robotics. |
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Japanese Humanoid & Human Partner Robot Resources |
Honda P4 Asimo
(in Japanese, but great pictures!) |
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Artificial Life Milestone: Robots Building Robots Resources |
Machine Evolution including applications for LEGO & Aibo |
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J R KERR Automation Engineering |
"J R Kerr specializes in the rapid development of intelligent machines. The PIC-SERVO line of low-cost, easy to use motion controllers can get your application moving now. Board level products are ideal for one-off or low volume production, and all of our control IC's are available for design into high volume products." |
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VIVA Robotics |
Viva Robotics is a leader in providing unique, turn-key marketing solutions that uses Robots to convey marketing messages and teach complex technologies. See video clips of Sprocket the robot being disassembled by schoolchildren! |
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BEAM Robotics Web Resources |
http://www.beam-online.com/
http://members.xoom.com/robots/ |
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NASA's |
NASA's "Cool Robot Of The Week" and catalog of web robots. Bookmark them and check back often! |
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Archives of the RobotBall events that ran for 4 years (up till 2002) in Washington DC. RobotBall was a robot theme costume ball with robot events and robot bands! Site contains instructions on robot costuming and has great pictures of the events. |
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Run by SFRSA's president, Roger Gilbertson, Mondo-tronics' Robot Store Web Catalog features over 400 robot kits, books, and software, as well as Muscle Wires® shape memory alloys, and lots of other great robot related hardware, electronics, video tapes and more! The Robot Store is a sponsor of the SFRSA Sumo Robot competetions and the RoboExpo! |
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Run by SFRSA's most awarded competition robot builder, Carlo Bertocchini. Robot Books features a wide selection of just the books and magazines robot builders need! Forget about Amazon.com!. This site is brimming with resources from robot club links to toys! Check it out! |
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Read about projects such as the amazing Theramin playing robot at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Intelligent Robotics Lab site. |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about BASIC Stamps, one of the easiest-to-use dedicated microcomputers ever! Designed for robotics applications. You can get one at the RobotStore! |
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Ten years in development with M.I.T. and SRI, Lego's Robotic Invention System makes exploring robotics easy! Includes robotics chassis containing computer & rechargeable power supply, servos, light & touch sensors, infrared transmitter, Windows '95 object-oriented graphical user interface control software. Mac users can run them too! Check it out on this site. You can get one at the RobotStore! |
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Autonomous Systems Lab and IROS'98 Workshop "Robots on the Web" |
The Autonomous Systems Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Links include "Robots on the Web" workshop. Fascinating and in English! |
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They like robots! If you like robots, come join them! The Vancouver Robotics Club is looking for members who are interested in building robots such as LEGO MindStorm system, simple robot kits, all the way to fully functional research robots. VRC is a group that can answer questions, give technical support, and help you build your robot. |
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The Seattle Robotics Society sponsors such events as the Northwest Regional Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest, and the Northwest Sumo Tournament, held at their yearly Robothon! A highly active group, SRS's web site features archives of their newsletter, encoder. |
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R. U. R. |
This
site (created for a writing class) contains an excerpt in English from the
original 1920 play R.U. R."Rossum's Universal Robots, by Karel Capek.
This play introduced the word "robot" first into Czech in its
present meaning and then on to the rest of the world's languages. |
