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Month: December 2008

  • Kinex Battle Bot

    Kinex Are Awesome Duration : 0:1:52

  • How to build a robot?

    My son has a project due soon where he has to build a robot that will pick up things & move them around. We have done research but still do not have a clue where to begin. Where do you buy the parts or robot kits? How do you build one that will move things?…

  • How do I calculate torque needed?

    I am building a robot, a battlebot to be precise, and I cannot, for the life of me, find out how to calculate how strong my motors need to be. PLEASE!!!! NOBODY PUBLISH FORCE TIMES DISTANCE!!! ITS NOT WHAT I AM ASKING!!!! I have 4 wheels, each with one motor. The back wheels are 3…

  • NXT Trimoto Explorer

    My first Mindstorm… Duration : 0:0:53

  • Simple & efficient trajectory learning for smooth navigation

    Video showing the simple and efficient trajectory learning method used for reactive obstacle avoidance in the LAGR project by New York University team. This technique is compared to a trivial linear steering method. The robot never hits any obstacles with the trajectory learning method while requiring very little compute power. More details at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/research/… and…