The Toei Animation studio recently announced during the Tokyo Animation Fair 2010, the upcoming release of a new robot movie namedGaiking. In fact, Gaiking is a Goldorak style giant robot, which was part of a Go Nagai animated series from the 70s (1976). Mattel, which owns the toy line correspon…
Alert! MyRobots.com is introducing Alerts! Effective immediately, you can now define alerts for all your robots so they can react to their environment and signal you if there is anything worth your attention. What is an alert? In MyRobots.com terms, an alert is a message sent once a certain co…
2045 Milestones Dmitry Itskov, a Russian mogul, recently launched the "2045 Initiative". His main goal is to promote the development of technology aimed at achieving immortality. As shown in the image above, the project has very ambitious milestones that can be arguably a bit too optimistic.
Robot Combat League The SyFy Channel recently launched the new "Robot Combat League"; a new series featuring large, ~2m tall humanoid robots fighting against each other one on one (almost identical to the robots in the movie "Real Steel"). Each robot is controlled by two operators (one for th
Maintaining your Roomba is very important. Here is a video for a suggested routine maintenance for your Roomba 500 to 700 series. This cleaning can be done after every few cleaning cycles depending on your environment.
À ce stade, vous devriez disposer de tous les principaux composants pour votre robot, dont des actionneurs, des contrôleurs de moteur, un microcontrôleur, des capteurs et des systèmes de communication. Vous approchez à présent de la phase d'inté…
Precise Path RG3 (Robotic Greens Mower3) is a new robotic lawn mower model. The RG3 is powered by three lead acid batteries and a 24-volt DC motor. Its robotic autonomy is 3 hours on a single charge and it travels at a speed of 5.5 km/h (it takes 8 hours to recharge). This robotic lawn mower is…
Roborealm has an interesting tutorial on using machine vision for obstacle avoidance in ground-based vehicles. The tutorial shows a series of image processing steps which can be chained together to detect the "highest" point in an image, based on the ground color. Presumably, that high…
Robotics is more than a passing trend. Just as Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (founders of Apple Computers) were part of the "Homebrew Computer Club" before personal computers were widespread, robotics enthusiasts are coming together to form robotics clubs around the world. The ideas, pr…
Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon The 2013 Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon has been announced! This year, the organizers are addressing the issue of robot remote monitoring via MyRobots.com: Robots are intended to be autonomous agents that go about minding their own business and accomplishing t
Jauge de vitesse et de régime Utilisez ces outils pour calculer la vitesse du robot en résultant, la régime moteur requis, et le diamètre de la roue correspondant. Calculez la vitesse du véhicule : [raw] Vitesse du véhicule :
Outil de conversion d'unités Instructions: Sélectionnez l'unité appropriée et entrez la valeur à convertir. Couple**: kgf-cm gf-cm
Speed and RPM Gauge Use this tools to compute, the resulting robot speed, the required motor RPM, and the corresponding wheel diameter. Solve for Vehicle Speed: Vehicle Speed: [in/sec] Motor Speed:
Le calculateur de couple de bras robotique est destiné à vous aider à choisir le bon moteur pour chaque articulation de votre bras robotique. Le couple (T) nécessaire à chaque articulation est calculé comme pour le pire des cas (levée d'un poi…
Dimensionnement d'un moteur d'entraînement L'outil de dimensionnement d'un moteur d'entraînement est conçu pour donner une idée du type de moteur d'entraînement nécessaire à votre robot spécifique, en reprenant des vale…
The French newspaper, Le Monde, wrote that journalist robots already exist and work quite well. The experimental program of artificial intelligence, "Stats Monkey", is able to autonomously write sports news. It can produce a headline of a particular game in only 2 seconds without spell…
