Month: May 2009

  • Robot Aircraft Carrier Drone on FutureWeapons (Part 1 of 2)

    This is a clip (part 1 of 2) from FutureWeapons documenting the Northrop Grumman X-47B UCAS (Unmanned Combat Air System). Recent advances in robotics, sensors and artificial intelligence are used to engineer a drone aircraft that can perform naval missions and land on aircraft carriers autonomously. To develop this system, virtual prototyping and simulations are…

  • Motion Control of Omnidirectional Mobile Robots

    This video shows experimental results of coordinated path following control of omnidirectional mobile robots using nonlinear model predictive control. For more information see: http://www.ra.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/ Duration : 0:1:58

  • electricBricks.com Taller Mindstorms 2

    Una nueva entrega del taller de robótica, esta vez, tuvieron que diseñar y programar su propia cerradura electrónica. Como se puede comprobar, sólo abre introduciendo la contraseña en orden correcto, de lo contrario, seguirá cerrada. Para más información sobre los cursos visita nuestra página http://www.electricBricks.com ————————————————————— New issue in the Robotics Classes, they had to…

  • Vintage Masudaya SONIC ROBOT Train Gang of Five Toy

    http://www.opamerica.com Considered to be one of the “holy grails” of robot collecting, this is the ultra-scarce Modern Toys/Masudaya tin Giant Sonic Robot (aka “Train” robot), manufactured in Japan in the late 1950s and very early 1960s. It is believed to be the last member of the so-called “Gang of Five,” a set of skirted battery-op…

  • Unboxing the Litter Robot

    If you are sick of manually cleaning your cat’s litter box, then you might want to take a look at the litter robot, unboxed here for your viewing pleasure. 🙂 http://www.litter-robot.com/ Duration : 0:2:14