What's happening in the robotics field for September 2023? Welcome to the 41st installment in our monthly series, What's Trending in Robotics Field! We cover all the breaking news, hot issues, trending stories, and cool stuff that's happening — or has happened — in the ro…
  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…
