How To Survive A Robot Uprising (aka Robopocalypse)
Forget the zombie apocalypse--the real threat is an imminent Robopocalypse, a robot uprising! We at Epipheo care about your survival. That's why we interviewed Daniel H. Wilson to find out exactly how to survive a robot uprising. Daniel is the world's foremost authority on the subject and NY Times bestselling author of the book, "Robopocalypse." Find out more about Epipheo here: www.epipheostudios.com Learn more about Daniel H. Wilson and the Robopocalypse here: www.danielhwilson.com Check out Daniel's book, "Robopocalypse: A Novel," on Amazon now in paperback: amzn.to Wanna know "Why Twilight Is Popular?" You'll want to see our video here: youtu.be SUBSCRIBE to all of our awesome videos: www.youtube.com LET'S CONNECT! twitter.com www.facebook.com plus.google.com It's not an explainer video, it's an epipheo. Want help sharing your epipheo with the world? www.epipheostudios.com
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Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind - by Nature Video
Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm towards a bottle, pick it up, and drink her morning coffee. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy's brain, which 'reads' her thoughts, and a decoder, which turns her thoughts into instructions for the robotic arm. In this video, watch Cathy control the arm and hear from the team behind the pioneering study. The original research paper is here: www.nature.com
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Lego Robotic Arm
This is a model prosthetic arm made entirely of Lego. -hand movements and wrist abduction/adduction are Lego pneumatics -wrist pronation/supination, wrist flexion/extension, and elbow flexion/extension are Lego motors (Power Functions) The main purpose of this project was to accurately mimic the full range of motion of a normal human arm and hand. The secondary goal was to maximize speed and power, yet maintain a consistent ratio between the two for demonstration purposes. It is important to note that it was designed as an above elbow prosthesis, and the yellow shoulder is only meant to act as a static model. The amount of weight it can lift is limited to the shape of the object and orientation of the wrist and elbow, but it can't do much with more than a couple pounds. The controller is a rudimentary cluster of switches and joysticks. A 4-motor air compressor with pressure-regulation was made of Lego, but for the demonstration I simply used hand pumps. Enjoy! legoroboticarm.tumblr.com (photos) www.maxshepherd.net (this is the only Lego) *background music is "Crystal Fighters-At Home (Hidden Cat Remix)" soundcloud.com
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DARPA's Robotic Suspension System - M3 Program
The use of ground robots in military explosive-ordinance-disposal missions already saves many lives and prevents thousands of other casualties. If the current limitations on mobility and manipulation capabilities of robots can be overcome, robots could potentially assist warfighters across a greater range of missions. DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program seeks to create and demonstrate significant scientific and engineering advances in robot mobility and manipulation capabilities. This video shows a modified iRobot 510 PackBot equipped with an advanced suspension system maneuvering on a test course. The compliant suspension improves the robot's mobility over rough and uneven terrain. The technological enhancement enables faster transit speeds, climbing of very steep slopes, improved heading control, greater accommodation of debris entering the suspension and reduced impact forces on carried payloads. M3 is a research program aimed at improving robot capabilities through fundamentally new approaches to the engineering of better design tools, fabrication methods and control algorithms. The program covers scientific advancement across four parallel tracks: design tools, fabrication methodologies, control methods and technology-demonstration prototypes. The prototypes demonstrated are designed to test technological advances in robotics across a range of functions, and are not necessarily intended to enter production for military use. The DARPA M3 performer <b>...</b>
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Man Controls Robotic Hand with Mind
For a month, Pierpaolo Petruzziello's amputated arm was connected to a robotic limb, allowing him to feel sensations and control the arm with his thoughts. Rossella Lorenzi talks to him about the bionic experiment.
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Robotic Bird Takes Flight
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually, it's both. Presenting the robotic SmartBird that looks and flies just like the real thing. The other side of normal. Where else to find Diagonal View... FOLLOW us on Twitter: ow.ly or LIKE us on Facebook: ow.ly Strange talents, shocking stories, dangerous stunts...see it all here @ www.youtube.com
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Titanoboa meets the Mondo Spider
See Ben Cooper's doc. on the making of Titanoboa! vimeo.com titanoboa.ca www.mondospider.com www.eatart.org Titanoboa is a reincarnation of the ancient 50ft long serpent rendered extinct by past climate change. It was built at eatART in East Vancouver, BC, Canada Vote for Titanoboa and we could win $10000 or prizes! www.bocabearings.com Facebook : www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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DARPA Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) - Phase 1
DARPA's Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program is developing software to perform human-level tasks quickly and with minimal direction. This video shows the ARM robot performing 18 grasping and manipulation tasks using vision, force, and tactile sensing with full autonomy -- no active human control. The DARPA-supplied robot was built using commercial components that include an arm, hand, neck, and head sensors. During rigorous testing in November 2011, the best team achieved 93% success in grasping modeled and unmodeled objects. The ARM program has entered its second phase, where focus turns to complex bimanual manipulation scenarios
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Robotic support brings freedom to paraplegics - Tek RMD
Tek RMD - Robotic Mobilization Device www.tekrmd.com Tek RMD, provides the opportunity of movement for people with paraplegia by enabling them to independently stand up in a completely upright position with correct posture, facilitating their movement and comfortable completion of their daily tasks indoors, such as in the home, office and shopping mall. Tek RMD is not an alternative to wheelchairs, it is a totally new concept, a new platform.
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High-Power Robot Legs Can Jump, Balance
University of Tokyo's JSK Lab researchers have developed a high-torque, high-speed robotic leg for based on a novel electrical actuation system. Read more: spectrum.ieee.org
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iRobot Military Robot Adventure
Adriana Lee and Mike Perlman spent a day at iRobot, checking out the company's consumer, commercial and government robotic technologies. Up first? A peek at the company's Government & Industrial robots used by the government and military - complete with gaming peripherals! Mike and Adriana go hands on. Wackiness ensues. tchno.be For more tech goodness, check us out at: www.technobuffalo.com Follow Us on Twitter: www.twitter.com Like Us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Check Us Out on Google + tchno.be Inside My Mind: www.youtube.com
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Robotic rings for wearable robotic interaction #DigInfo
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Review: Sphero Robotic Ball
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Honda Unveils New Robotics-powered Scooter
Honda has unveiled a new personal scooter, powered by robotics, that'll be on display and being tested at Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation over the next ten months. (May 16) Subscribe to the Associated Press: bit.ly Download AP Mobile: www.ap.org Associated Press on Facebook: apne.ws Associated Press on Twitter: apne.ws Associated Press on Google+: bit.ly
President Obama Drives Sphero the Robotic Ball
President Obama drives a Sphero (gosphero.com) robotic ball gaming device on his visit to CU and Boulder, Colorado on April 24th 2012.
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DarwinBot - The Pet Companion Robot
Jordan's a developer on the Microsoft Robotics Team and recently built a remotely operated robot for interacting and playing with his pet over the internet. It has two way audio and video through Skype, a ball launcher, treat dispenser, ball recovery arm and a pan & tilt camera. It is built on the Parallax EDDIE hardware platform with the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 development tool. Find out more at www.microsoft.com
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Autonomous Robotic Truss Reconfiguration and Manipulation
Learn more: creativemachines.cornell.edu www.jeremyblum.com Accepted for Publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Robot shown developed by Franz Nigl, Jeremy Blum, and Shuguang Li under the direction of Dr. Hod Lipson. This video presents a robot capable of autonomously traversing and manipulating a 3D truss structure. The robot is able to approach and traverse multiple structural joints using a combination of translational and rotational motions. A key factor in allowing reliable motion and engagements is the use of specially designed structural building blocks comprised of bidirectional geared rods. A set of traversal plans, each comprised of basic motion primitives, were analyzed for speed, robustness, and repeatability. Paths covering eight joints are demonstrated, as well as automatic element assembly and disassembly. We suggest that the robot architecture and truss module design, such as the one presented here, could open the door to robotically assembled, maintained, and reconfigured structures that would ordinarily be difficult, risky, or time consuming for humans to construct.
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Wireless Arduino Powered Chess
Our goal is to allow people to connect and play board games with each other from anywhere in the world. By combing a physical board with modern technology, we hope to bring a more interpersonal experience that is not achieved through a computer screen. See our other videos for a look inside the system and how moves such as castling and en passant are handled.
Robots Playing Hockey at Penn
For students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Design of Mechatronic Systems class, "the finals" are more than an exam; they are a tournament in which the winners hoist a trophy high above their heads in victory. Throughout the school year, members of the class, led by Jonathan Fiene, director of laboratory programs, design pint-sized robotic hockey teams that faceoff in an annual competition known as The Robockey Cup. Each team produces three robots that skate on wheels, shoot with pistons, and see the puck, the goals, and each other using a variety of sensors. More info: www.upenn.edu Video by Kurtis Sensenig kurtiss@upenn.edu Text by Evan Lerner
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Bottom of the Sea Robot Kingdom
I ran across Studio Shin Kai Ryuh's robotic creations at Design Festa 35 here in Tokyo last weekend. The studio's founder and designer has captured an imaginary under the sea kingdom complete in every detail, and has managed to bring many of the creatures to life using automation techniques. Design Festa, by the way, is a biannual gathering of artists and creators across all aspects of creative design. It's a endless buffet of inspiration and delight. I highly recommend that you experience it when you have the chance.
Battlefield Heroes - The Robots are here!
Join the fight at www.battlefieldheroes.com Dr.Doktor and his team have been hard at work seeking to explore the vast reaches of space in an effort to expand honor of the National Federation. They may have won the gold medal for cycling at the Olympics but Royals are mocking them at every turn. The Nationals are now determined to prove they are the better faction once and for all. However a lack of trained soldiers or rather, them being occupied at the moment after being shot into space using the flawed one rope system, has led to desperation. While all of the heroes are fighting on the battlefield, Dr.Doktor is left without any *cough* willing volunteers. In an effort to combat this lack of resources, he has created a robotic army to stand in their place so he can use more battle hardened heroes in his experiments. Of course, the Royal Scientific Corps can't just stand by and be outdone by the Nationals so they have created their own. Also in this release: - New rare items in the form of the Mark II robot sets. - New Map Conversion - Capture the Flag Buccaneer Bay - New Robot Emotes - New Pocket Vehicles - The Pocket Tank - New Gunner and Soldier weapons More Info: www.battlefieldheroes.com
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Electro - Mr. Nagasaki - Robotic Love
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Telexistence Robot Avatar Transmits Sight, Hearing and Touch - TELESAR V #DigInfo
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The Latest In Hobby Robotics 17
In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits Lyneborg is giving you 2 tips to fun a nerd can have with RC cars. The first and easy one is "Build something new from the parts". The second, and more complex one is to upgrade your RC car with "computer assisted sliding control". There is also a sneak preview of one of the Multicopters that Frits is testing for later episodes; the QuadPod from snelflight.co.uk Make your first robot letsmakerobots.com Letsmakerobots.com on twitter: twitter.com
Robot Avatar Brushes Cat Remotely in Virtual Reality [Kinect, Wii, HMD, Treadmill, NAO]
This is the culmination of my last year's work. I control the robot's arms through the Kinect and Wii remotes. I control the robot's navigation through the Kinect and treadmill. I control the robot's head through the head mounted display (HMD). I also see through the robot's eyes with the HMD. After doing this exercise, it became apparent that the next feature to add is hearing and speaking through the robot. Luckily both the NAO and my HMD have microphones and speakers so this shouldn't be too difficult. This was the second try accomplishing brushing the cat. On the first try we discovered that the positioning of the brush in NAO's hand needed to be flipped 180 degrees from the intuitive direction. The low framerate is because my ancient laptop can't handle doing a screen capture with all this stuff going on.
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How To Dance to DUBSTEP Tutorial | Robotic POPPING
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World's First Robotic Woman - 1968
Robo Woman - 1968, taken from the British Pathe reel "Miss Honeywell - World's First Robotic Woman". See this playlist of our best clips: www.youtube.com See the original Robo Woman video with its full Pathe commentary and extra shots here: www.britishpathe.com The music is taken from a live art performance recorded by Pathe in Paris in 1964. You can watch the exciting piece here: www.britishpathe.com (The jazzy "electro" music in the middle is from the original reel, so you want the top link above for that) www.britishpathe.com And yes, you guessed it. Miss Honeywell isn't actually a robot - she is a Hollywood actress in need of a few good parts!
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Robot Sketch Artist
Robot Sketch Artist Meet Paul, the greatest art talent the robotic world has ever produced. Where else to find Diagonal View... FOLLOW us on Twitter: ow.ly or LIKE us on Facebook: ow.ly Check out our other robot videos in this our Bizarre Robotics Creation playlist here: www.youtube.com
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UC Berkeley Leaping Lizard & Robot
University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers studied how lizards leap successfully even when they slip and stumble. The lizards swing their tails upward to prevent them from pitching head-over-heels into a rock. After the team added a tail to a robotic car named Tailbot, they discovered that robots and lizards must actively adjust the angle of their tails just right to remain upright. This video shows, in normal and slow-motion, an Agama lizard after a leap from a surface with good traction versus a slippery surface, showing how the lizard uses its tail to prevent forward pitch, and Tailbot, a wheeled robot with a tail, taking a nose-dive off a cliff with a passive tail, but able to maintain its orientation with an actively controlled tail. Video courtesy of CiBER/UC Berkeley. For full story: newscenter.berkeley.edu
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The Hubos Come Together
Four of Drexel's HUBO robots perform the Beatles' "Come Together" in a demonstration that combines cutting-edge engineering technology and research with creative expression, produced by the Music & Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab). The HUBOs are operating autonomously (not human-controlled). Their movements are directed by student-developed software to perform the gestures necessary to produce the appropriate notes and beats as dictated by a musical score. Every sound in the video was performed by the robots. MET-lab student Matthew Prockup created the musical arrangement for drum kit and three "Hubophones", novel percussion instruments designed and constructed by the lab for this performance. HUBO was designed and developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) Hubo Lab (Dr. Jun Ho Oh, Director). Drexel Engineering kicked-off National Engineers Week by unveiling seven HUBO humanoids at an unprecedented showcase event on February 20, 2012. Their presence at Drexel is part of a large collaborative project with KAIST and seven other US universities with the goal of rapidly advancing humanoids research. More information: drexel.edu
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The Robotic Musicians known as: Intel's Industrial Control in Concert
A whimsical collaboration of several devices powered Intel® Atom™ processors revealing how Intel® Architecture can be used for real-time capability as it applies in the industrial environment.
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euronews hi-tech - Robots reveal Titanic secrets
www.euronews.com The wreck of the Titanic lay undisturbed for 73 years, at depths of up to 12000 feet under water. It was discovered in 1985, by a team of American and French researchers using a newly-developed ultra-sensitive sonar system, combined with advanced acoustic technology. The sinking of the Titanic has a macabre fascination for scientists and the public alike and researchers have been exploring the wreck since 1985. In 1986 a small underwater robot named Jason Junior or "JJ" produced the first images of the ship on the ocean floor. JJ was tethered to a manned submersible, nicknamed Alvin, hovering just metres away. But now with advanced communications and guidance systems, a new generation of vehicles is able to dive deeper, and remain submerged for longer. Much of this new technology was developed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The latest is Nereus, which can operate as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) or a robot. Nereus can collect samples or conduct experiments using its robotic manipulator arm. It works on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, similar to those used in cell phones and laptop computers. Battery life is around 20 hours and it takes six hours to recharge. Using computer programme systems designed for flying drones and modifying other computer programmes, Bowen's team helped introduce robotic guidance controls to undersea exploration. The connection for commands and information flow is a light, flexible <b>...</b>
Qbo's assembling time-lapse
Throughout the life of this project, we must have assembled and disassembled our robot thousands of times in our labs. Q.bo is not a toy, is a complex platform that requires some knowledge of robotics and that's why we decided to shoot one of these occasions, in Time-Lapse format, so that you can see how one of our engineers starts to assemble, almost from scratch, every component of the robot. Twitter twitter Blog thecorpora.com
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Flying Robots Build a 6-Meter Tower
Read more on: www.zeitnews.org Yesterday night the first installation to be built by flying machines opened its doors to the public. An hour or so after the Opening, after most of the crowd had gone to drink champagne in the building next door, I snuck upstairs and recorded a few short clips of the quadrocopters. The installation, called "Flight Assembled Architecture", was conceived and built by teams led by my colleagues Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler as well as Raffaello D'Andrea at the ETH Zurich. It illustrates a radically new way of thinking about materializing architecture: Use a multitude of mobile flying agents working in parallel and acting together as a scalable production means. As you can see in the video, the quadrocopters are programmed to interact, lift, transport and assemble small modules in order to erect a building. The tower is actually a 1:100 model of a "vertical village" with a height of 600 meters and housing 30'000 inhabitants. To learn more about the technology (control architecture, collision avoidance and freeway based flight, prick placement, safety systems, etc.) and architectural aspects (geographic location, transit times, access plans, structural and wind tunnel analysis, etc.), have a look at www.idsc.ethz.ch
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ABB Robotics - Dual Arm Concept Robot
The concept robot was created in response to requests from ABB Robotics' existing customer base to develop robotic solutions for manufacturing environments in which humans and robots would be able to work together. This 14-axis, dual arm robot is the initial output from ABB Corporate Research's initiative for industries requiring new and innovative solutions for their small part assembly operations. As a result of the positive reaction to this initial effort, ABB is now engaged in the further development of this concept. The robot is also part of a research program aimed at evaluating new robotic solutions for modern manufacturing concepts (FP7 Rosetta). There are no immediate plans by ABB Robotics to introduce the robot as a commercial product, however, should you wish to discuss your robotics requirements for small part assembly operations, we would be interested in hearing from you.
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Qbo Robot & Xtion Pro Live 3D sensor
This sensor emits a 3D point cloud that, along with the robot's odometry sensor and the incorporated gyroscope, enables Q.bo to build maps, 3D modeling of objects and autonomous localization in real-time. This system can be seen as a more accurate and sophisticated visual perception compared to the stereoscopic cameras or the ultrasound sensors. However, the joint use of all systems (ultrasounds, webcams and Xtion) can generate a much more complete information than the separate use of each.
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Wolfgang Fink's Robotic Lake Lander
Wolfgang Fink of the UA department of electrical and computer engineering has developed an autonomous robotic lake lander that could be used to explore this planet and others. Fink unveiled the lake lander, named Tucson Explorer II, or TEX II, in a paper titled "Robotic Lake Lander Test Bed for Autonomous Surface and Subsurface Exploration of Titan Lakes," which he presented March 8 at an aerospace conference organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Big Sky, Mont. TEX II is an autonomous exploration vehicle that potentially could be used to explore the lakes of liquid hydrocarbon known to exist on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. This research has been conducted at the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory (Director: Prof. Wolfgang Fink) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ece.arizona.edu in the College of Engineering www.engr.arizona.edu of the University of Arizona www.arizona.edu
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