Skill needed for programming a robot answered in this robot book. This is practical guides that include history and theory. The author Joe Jones and Daniel Roth brings many practical and useful explanations in very easily understood terms to the beginner, and hidden depth to the experienced robot programmer.
robot encounters
Robot DONA Collects Donation For Ivory Coast’s Education Fund
This robot will stop you and beg for your kindness to give some donation with its adorable appearance. Looks like a panhandling this robot use can in front of its legs to collect the donations and thank to people who drop money to the can. Money that has been collected will be used to fund education in Ivory Coast’s schools. This donation collecting robot was the project from South Korean’s robotics with MIT Media Lab and named DONA. As you can see from the video bellow the robot motion was the result of motion-sensing system that equipped on DONA.
Japan’s Autonomous Tree Climbing Robot, Woody
There was RiSE robot from DARPA that could climb tree and its time for Japanese to show their tree climbing robot named WOODY. The development of Woody has been done before 2004 and now there are three models of this robot has been built. There are WOODY-0 (2004), WOODY-1 (2005-), and WOODY-2 (2008-). Woody basically built in order to help people in forestry works, especially in pruning. Woody the first generation is able to climb up the tree; while for the second generation the Woody 1 could roll around trunk and climb up the tree automatically but done in a slow way, too slow.
Kawasaki Robot Solve Rubix Cubes in Seconds, Cube-Kun
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has released the robot Cube-Kun. This first robot debut is in Tepia exhibition in Tokyo. There in the exhibition the robot impressed people with the ability in solving the sophisticated Rubix Cubes in seconds. This robot with big flat screen in the face works by scanning the cubes. When this robot is given a cube, then it will be registered by the robot.
Cool Small Skating Robot Kit PLEN
PLEN is an easy enjoyable robot kit that will not trouble you in assembling the robot. Thing that you need most is just a screwdriver. It takes no special tool at all in assembling the robot kit. In controlling the robot it will not be that hard with the help of the Motion Editer software. With this software installed you can make your own motion to this robot and it only takes mouse to control this small cool robot. You also can use your cell phone in controlling the robot because this robot enables the via-wireless-connection.
Open Software and Hardware Modification Platform Robot DARwIn-OP
DARwIn-OP is a project robot that was sponsored by the National Science Foundation or NSF. RoMeLa was the developer of this robot. But RoMeLa didn’t work alone on this project; it was Purdue University, University of Pennsylvania, and Robotis Co, that worked together with RoMeLa. This robot is a platform robot that open for any kind of modification both software and hardware. Users are allowed to make their own modification for the hardware, while for the instruction manual and the assembly can be found for free on the available link.
Provoking Poster Robot For Electronic Waste Disposal
Look at the robot poster bellow, could you see how provocative the poster is? This poster i called creative and smart in provoking people to be careful in disposal their electronic waste. Electronic waste could be something danger for us if we couldn’t treat it well. The idea of this provocative robot poster is how we should be smartly and carefully in treating our electronic waste.