Sentences with phrase «robotics project at»

A 2016 robotics project at UC Berkeley mimicking cockroaches is just one modern example.

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At the core of this project is a cutting - edge robotic hand and arm developed in the BioRobotics Laboratory in FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

It is part of the company's Personal Robotics Project, whose goal is to make a truly autonomous robotic assistant that can perform routine tasks at human speeds in cluttered environments like homes or offices.

De Lasa knows very well the challenges of robotic walking, being a former member of the Big Dog robotic mule project at Boston Dynamics.

Katherine Terracciano did her senior capstone project on robotic navigation at Olin College and was hired by the company who sponsored her project, Parietal Systems Inc..

The project, which includes artificial intelligence and robotics experts at the University of Lincoln's School of Computer Science, will include a large - scale evaluation where robots will be deployed within the extra-care homes of LACE Housing Association in the UK, to care homes in Greece and to elderly people's own homes in Poland, for one year.

That's the thinking behind a project at Willow Garage, a robotics company in Palo Alto, California.

Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»

Scientists at M.I.T. Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), developed an exoskeleton that promises to not only lessen the load of weary travelers but also to advance research that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of amputees.

BlueBot projects can work both as at - home robotics exploration or as a science or engineering project for a school assignment (depending on the assignment requirements).

With multiple projects and guided directions at Science Buddies, the BlueBot Kit offers plenty of enriching robotics engineering fun to last the entire winter break and beyond!

It would look great projected on a giant screen at a rave for drugged - up youth to have something to glance up at while dancing to monotonous drum - machine rhythms provided by a robotic DJ — preferably female.

The 2014 Technology Innovation Showcase includes the following companies: BirdBrain Technologies — Art & Bots, an on - going research project at Carnegie Mellon University, led to the development of the Hummingbird robotics kit,, compatible with popular maker tools and software like Raspberry Pi, MaKey MaKey, and Scratch, to introduce students to engineering design, electronics, and programming across the curriculum.

Integrating technologies into the core curriculum, emphasizing project - based and inquiry - based learning, and teaching robotics, coding, and environmental and outdoor science are other ways STEM education is supported at WSD.

Their 2007 project The Killing Machine, which included an electric dental chair and two robotic arms that attacked an invisible prisoner, was in part inspired by the accounts of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad (and in part by a Franz Kafka short story).

Conceptually, the project investigates the uncanny valley phenomenon — the subject of extensive research at present — through point - light representations of human motion and the first 3 - D rendering via robotic implementation.

«At FedEx [Corp.], with the robotics / artificial intelligence project they have, they assign a lawyer from the beginning not to slow it down but speed it up to overcome the bumps along the way.»

At a secondary level there is also a lot of scope for investigative projects using all kinds of media, as well as physical hardware like robotics.