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  A couple of weeks ago we reported on Jon Hyland's NanoSeeker Micro AUV project. Today Jon posted some more details on his project and he seems to be making rapid progress. With the help of a rapid prototype machine there are now working prototypes of the vehicles in the water. The NanoSeeker
Jon Hylands, on his blog this week, posted a link to his NanoSeeker Micro AUV project. The vehicle is 6 inches long and 1.25 inches in diameter. That's tiny! Jon plans to outfit the AUV with a 6 DOF IMU, a compass, depth sensor and an ARM based microcontroller. You can see some pictures of the
Cornell University has won the 12th annual AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. And, according to Cornell's tweet, second place goes to University of Victoria and 3rd to University of Rhode Island. Interestingly, these three teams weren't even in the top 5 of last year's compeitors (pd…
A few weeks ago, the most excellent company, SparkFun hosted an autonomous vehicle competition at their building in Builder Colorado. The competition was open to all forms of autonomous vehicles and was race around the peremeter of the buildings. Chris Anderson from DIY Drones entered a flying veh…
Here's a fantastic walking robot costume for a small child. Check out the "build notes" after the jump. Just add some water or nerf guns and your kid will be the ultimate ruler of the neighborhood! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9v0EdhwlM L's chicken walking robot costume http://www.youtube.c…
After ten yeras, the array of creations made with the LEGO's Mindstorms kit is pretty impressive. One of the latest things to amaze me is this NXT 3D scanner created by Philo. The device uses several motors and linear actuators to probe the surface of an object and precisely record its shape. The …
Shown below is a video of a robot that uses the perceived vanishing point of an image to navigate through a corridor. The robot, based on an iRobot Create, uses a standard webcam and video processing to locate the vanishing point of what it sees, and navigates towards that point. Such navigation wo…
Have you ever wanted to see some hot combat robot action in slow motion? Here's your chance. This footage was recorded at the Carolina Combat event this past weeked in North Carolina (how'd I miss it?!) by Robert Woodhead. The video is shot with a Casio Exilim EX-F1 camera, that can take video at u…
Instructables and RoboGames have teamed up to create a robot building contest. The task is to design and document one specific aspect of your robot. Good robot design is highly detailed, so we're asking you to document specific parts of your robot for this contest. Maybe you built the ultimate m…
I always like to point out great design when I see it, and Mike Smyth's Minimechadon is a prime example. Mike created the little guy to experiment with learning algorithms for walking. The robot weighs 12oz and has 4 degrees-of-freedom. The sensor array consists of 4 touch sensors on the bottom of…
The RB2000 robot from JR Robotics and VStone is able to perform some impressive acrobatic feats. Our friend, Lem, over at Robots Dreams captured some video of the RB2000 twirling about on the highbars. However, ... since the robot doesn't have any hands, the bar was passed through openings in the …
The Visual Lego software project allows you to gain full control of your NXT brick via .NET (Visual Basic, C#, etc.). This software wrapper allows you to access all the bricks functionality over the serial bluetooth link. The library, written by Bram Fokke, is almost complete. It can be downloaded…
Servo Magazine is giving away a Robonova. Just fill out their reader's survey and you'll be automatically entered to win. Click on the picture of the Robonova on their website. They survey has 23 questions and took me under 10 minutes to fill out. Questions range from how much of the magazine you …
Lem over at Robots-Dreams has once again brought us some crazy Japanese robot-lovin'. This time it's Japanese American-Style Robot Football! The teams are made up of 4 robot players roughly the size of 3kg sumo-robots. Crazy mayhem ensues. Game play is in 2 3 minute halves. http://www.youtube.com/…
Don't forget about the RoboGames coming up June 16-18th in San Franciso, USA. Tickets and pricing information are here. $55/$40 for a three-day pass, and $20/$15 for a one day. Here's a video on YouTube about the games. Should be awesome. Anyone going?
RoombaDevTools.com is a great way to get started hacking your Roomba. You can read a review of the RooStick (at left) over at TodBot.com. It allows you to easily connect your computers USB port up to the Roomba's serial hacker interface. Other nifty products include the RooTooth, which lets you c…