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  • The cutest robot experiment ever

    i.gizmodo.com A NYU student conducts an awesome experiment with a simple robot, that depends on the kindness of strangers to get around. Duration : 0:2:6

  • Warehouse Robots at Work

    IEEE spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org) takes you inside Kiva Systems’ robotic warehouse, where orange robots make inventory move instead of workers. Over time the system becomes increasingly efficient, with the robots learning from the wisdom of the crowd. To read more about Kiva Systems and how their robots work, check out the article at http Duration :…

  • BattleBots Competition FIRE!!!

    (View the better video with music and outcome here www.youtube.com Yeah so this was our first battlebot competition and we only had 1 meeting before this, so we didnt have the bot that we are going to be using this year. So we took an old one (which got 3rd in the NATION last year)…

  • Segway NXTway-Gyro self-balancing NXT robot with remote PSP joystick control

    www.techbricks.nl build a NXTway-Gyro Segway self-balancing NXT Mindstorms robot with Mindsensors remote PSP controller and a Hitechnic gyro sensor with NXC software based on JanB’s program. The bot is able to run over a tilt surface and it is controlled very smooth. A very small NXC program is keeping the bot upricht by doing the…

  • UBC Thunderbird Robotics – IR Sensors and a Simple Robot

    Demonstration of our new IR sensors (with the help of an IR camera running on the laptop). Also a simple robot that uses 3 of the IR sensors to detect obstacles. On detection the robot backs up and turns and moves forward again. Not practical for a competition, but a good proof-of-concept. Duration : 0:6:58

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