A little more to the left, please
Tag Archives: robots
ROS film festival
http://robohub.org/cinema-meets-robots-at-the-robotics-online-short-film-festival/
That word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means…
Tigger: Come on, Robot. Let’s you and me bounce, huh?
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/10/disney-builds-a-jolly-one-legged-hopping-robot/
The wonderful thing about tiggers is tiggers are wonderful things. Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs. They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is that I’m the only one. IIIIII’m the only one!
Top four NASA robots
http://robohub.org/the-four-coolest-nasa-robots/
It’s like choosing your favorite sons/daughters
When does a robot graduate from thing to creature?
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-10-westworld-robots.html
Should we play the traditional graduation song when it happens?
Rollin’ on out
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-omnidirectional-mobile-robot.html
If I ever need a wheel chair, I want it to have this design.
Direct drive quadraped
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/ghost-robotics-minitaur-quadruped
It looks pretty opaque for a ghost….
I want permission to land on the moon
http://time.com/4433455/moon-express-robot-nasa/
I guess I need a robot first.
Robots to the rescue
It is good to see the adoption of robots in these scenarios – offering help in places that need it, but where it is unwise to send a human.
SRC – useful links
https://bitbucket.org/ihmcrobotics/
http://robots.ihmc.us/blog/2014/11/20/z35nu8u31y8gyxvplrgc77mb5uu03n
https://github.com/ihmcrobotics/ihmc_valkyrie_ros
These should offer a good starting point!