• TOMBOT: A Behavior-based Autonomous Robot

    Updated: 2012-12-30 16:11:55
    Circuit Cellar magazine recently posted in full their two-part article by Tom Kibalo on the construction of his subsumption-based mobile robot, called TOMBOT. Part 1 of the article covers construction of the hardware and Part 2 covers the subsumption software and basic behaviors for obstacle avoidance, collisions, and light tracking. The robot is a differential drive design using continuous-turn RC Servos as motor. It lacks wheel encoders. The robot sports an XBee radio, a PIC32 CPU, and a small LCD display. It's a good basic introduction to behavior-based robots and well worth a read.

  • Best Robot Photos of the Week: Xmas Edition

    Updated: 2012-12-24 19:32:00
    This week's edition of Best Robot Photos of the Week is a special holiday collection of Christmas robots submitted by our readers. We also received one holiday photo made by Hanukkah nanobots. No one posted photos of Kwanzaa bots or Festivus droids this year. Whatever your preferred winter holiday, just remember that Axial Tilt is the reason for the season and enjoy our these photos of holiday robots. Want to see your robot photo here? Post it to flickr and add it to the robots.net flickr group. If you're not a flickr member yet, it's free and easy to sign up. Read on to see the best robot photos of the week!

  • Robots Podcast #119: Orbotix and Sphero

    Updated: 2012-12-17 03:05:11
    : All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Robots Podcast 119 : Orbotix and Sphero Posted 17 Dec 2012 at 03:05 UTC by John_RobotsPodcast In Robots Podcast episode 119, reporter Per talks with Ian Bernstein about the hugely successful Sphero robot and the company he co-founded , Orbotix A hardware tinkerer from a young age , Bernstein became involved with BEAM Robot Games First attending New Mexico Tech then Colorado State University he decided to start his own company after the options available at a career fair all bored him . In 2010, realizing the technology in smart phones far surpassed that being used in most consumer robots and wondering why those phones couldn't be used to control robots , he and cofounder Adam Wilson

  • Random Robot Roundup

    Updated: 2012-12-15 14:50:24
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Random Robot Roundup Posted 15 Dec 2012 at 14:50 UTC by steve First up this week , Pololu Robotics is having another sale , this one in honor of 12 12 12 and running through the end of the month . Lots of cool bargains from 12 to 50 off , so check it out Casey let us know about his ATOMS Express Toys kickstarter campaign a set of modular robotics actuators and sensors for LEGOs . Even cooler is an IndieGogo campaign for a palm-sized UAV based on a dragonfly and developed by robotics researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology . In less fun robot news , NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every US Drone strike since 2002 and observers have noticed a distriburbing trend toward double

  • IEEE App puts Robots on your iPad

    Updated: 2012-12-13 22:38:40
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account IEEE App puts Robots on your iPad Posted 13 Dec 2012 at 22:38 UTC by steve There's a new Robot iPad app out for robot fans . It was designed by the folks at IEEE Spectrum magazine and should appeal to anyone who's interested in robots . It's got lots of photos and video of cool robots that even kids will enjoy watching . There are also interviews with well-known roboticists that older , geekier iPad users may enjoy . Erico Guizzo , the robotics editor of IEEE Spectrum magazine : writes I've been following your stories on robots.net for a long time , even before I started writing about robots at IEEE Just wanted to let you know about an iPad app we're launching today , featuring 126 robots

  • The Usual Humanoids

    Updated: 2012-12-13 21:54:14
    Shopping Personal and Domestic Robots Professional and Service Robots Robotics Tools and Robot Equipment RobotShop Promotional Products Robot Parts Robot Kits Robot Toys Robot Books Education Education Robots for Colleges and Universities Robots for Elementary Schools Robots for Graduates and Research Robots for High Schools Robots for Preschool and Kindergarten Support RobotShop Support center RobotShop Learning Center Forum RobotShop Blog GoRobotics MyRobots Social Network RobotShop's Twitter RobotShop's Facebook RobotShop TV YouTube RobotShop Toolbar RobotShop's Flickr RobotShop Accelerator The RobotShop Blog is your source for up-to-date robot news and robot reviews from the experts The Usual Humanoids December 13th , 2012 Humanoid robots are becoming larger and more capable , and the

  • Best Robot Photos of the Week

    Updated: 2012-12-10 17:20:24
    Every week we post a collection of the best robot photos submitted by our readers to our robots.net flickr group. Why? Because everyone likes to see cool new robots! This week's collection includes a fleet of quadcopters at Max Plank Institute, MIT's now retired Kismet robot, some art bots, movie bots, and a vintage robot or two. Want to see your robot here? Post it to flickr and add it to the robots.net flickr group. It's easy! If you're not already a flickr member, it's free and easy to sign up. Read on to see the best robot photos of the week!

  • All Robots Get Together, Most Epic Robot TV Add

    Updated: 2012-12-06 19:39:30
    , Shopping Personal and Domestic Robots Professional and Service Robots Robotics Tools and Robot Equipment RobotShop Promotional Products Robot Parts Robot Kits Robot Toys Robot Books Education Education Robots for Colleges and Universities Robots for Elementary Schools Robots for Graduates and Research Robots for High Schools Robots for Preschool and Kindergarten Support RobotShop Support center RobotShop Learning Center Forum RobotShop Blog GoRobotics MyRobots Social Network RobotShop's Twitter RobotShop's Facebook RobotShop TV YouTube RobotShop Toolbar RobotShop's Flickr RobotShop Accelerator The RobotShop Blog is your source for up-to-date robot news and robot reviews from the experts All Robots Get Together , Most Epic Robot TV Add December 6th , 2012 Minds Machine TV Add General

  • I For One Welcome Our New Robot Lamp Overlords

    Updated: 2012-12-06 16:33:55
    Shopping Personal and Domestic Robots Professional and Service Robots Robotics Tools and Robot Equipment RobotShop Promotional Products Robot Parts Robot Kits Robot Toys Robot Books Education Education Robots for Colleges and Universities Robots for Elementary Schools Robots for Graduates and Research Robots for High Schools Robots for Preschool and Kindergarten Support RobotShop Support center RobotShop Learning Center Forum RobotShop Blog GoRobotics MyRobots Social Network RobotShop's Twitter RobotShop's Facebook RobotShop TV YouTube RobotShop Toolbar RobotShop's Flickr RobotShop Accelerator The RobotShop Blog is your source for up-to-date robot news and robot reviews from the experts I For One Welcome Our New Robot Lamp Overlords December 6th , 2012 Pinokio Face Tracking Lamp Students

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