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.
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Sandia’s Small Smart Autonomous Robot
It’s sized in a small scale, little bigger than a coin but has a great ability. The robot is a small autonomous machine that developed by Sandia National Laboratories. This small robot is made in aimed to replace human in monitoring or investigating the dangerous place or environment. This robot could help people in different kind of civil and military applications. This robot could move in a small pipe to check chemical leaks or spying on something. Three watch batteries are installed to supply the power of this robot.
Slipping Medicine Reminder Robot Mamoru
In December of 2008 IRT Research Institute introduced their 40cm tall and 3.8kg robot named Mamoru. Like another IRT’s projects this robot works in assisting elderly. Mamoru has role in helping elderly to find their lose pills in case the always forget it. This robot works by using the Scale Invariant Feature Transform or SIFT. This vision system that was equipped in Mamoru used to detect objects. The vision was developed by Fujitsu, this vision tracking motion and recognizing gesture and face.
Festo Designed Naturaly From Lobsters And Grasshoppers AirArm
This is the Festo product called AirArm. This AirArm concept comes from the natural design of lobster and grasshopper legs and use the human pointing gestures. This arm uses the pneumatic muscles to power the external skeleton as this arm is a two-segmented arm. this arm can catch the drops of the water with the technology used in this arm. This product aims to reach point as many as it can be reach by hemispherical operating range.
Real Distinctive Sculpture Assembled From Typewriters Parts
His name is Jeremy Mayer and i think he is a genius to create this full-scaled human anatomy from disassemble typewriters. Why do i call him a genius because in making this impressive sculpture he only uses parts from the typewriters. He uses no glue or weld parts in construct this full-scaled human anatomy. It was all cold assemble and it was all typewriter parts he used! The photos bellow show the human figure as one of his collections of sculpture that people could buy. With the impressive look and how this thing created, this full-scaled human anatomy sculpture is something else and valuable to be collected in your house or gallery.
The Floating Bed Air Mattress
It was a real floating bed that entered the 2006 Best Inventions of TIME magazine. It was obvious fact that the Janjaap Ruijssenaars creation could float above floor. The trick is magnet. Using a set of magnet that was planted in the bed and the floor the creator could make this bed hovering. This magnet strength is powerful enough to take 2,000lbs of weight. The idea came from the monolith in the movie of A Space Odyssey in 2001. The most important thing is that the magnet used in this bed is a safe area for people.
Writing And Drawing Automaton Of Maillardet
This machine is able to write French poems and draw incredible pictures and what make it wonderfull is that this machine probably made about 200 years ago. Henri Maillardet was a Swiss mechanician that worked on this amazing machine. In 1800s he worked in shop that focuses in producing automata that able to write and draw, perhaps here was where Henri started to build automata. Beside this amazing drawing and writing automaton Henri also made Chinese writing automata that was made for The Emperor of China as ordered by King George III. Henri Maillardet’s automata could draw for sketches and write three poems which written in French and English.