Using a high - quality aluminium structure you can build many different
robots designs from the included parts.
It all begun when the creators of the franchise at FASA Corporation licensed the rights to use
robot designs from a few anime series including the classic Macross from Twentieth Century Imports.
Not exact matches
Together with associate professor Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University in Canada — and a cadre of other scientists, artists and engineers — he developed HitchBOT, a
robot designed to travel across a country by «hitching» a ride
from friendly humans.
On Monday, the startup unveiled a new toy
robot that former animators
from film studios like DreamWorks (dwa) and Pixar helped
design.
Royal Caribbean takes a very different approach with its Bionic Bar, where a pair of MIT -
designed robots that make hundreds of custom drinks that are ordered
from iPad spread around the bar area.
Fueled by $ 154 million
from investors, Ginkgo recently opened its second «foundry,» an 18,000 - square - foot factory stocked with fermentation tanks, mass spectrometers, software,
robots, and traditional bench biology tools to
design, build, and test DNA.
The binary options trading
robots are
designed to operate with little or no help
from the human trader and thus enabling binary options traders with busy schedules to have an equal opportunity in trading.
Advances in robotics
from Pack Expo include ABB's «extremely accurate» simulation software (left) and Blueprint Automation's infeed sortation system (right)
designed to be positioned upstream of
robots.
WeDo 2.0
from LEGO Education is a fantastic new learning tool
designed to introduce children to robotics, engineering, programming and general STEM teaching through a
robot - based learning system.
Luckily, there are a wide variety of electronic toys that meet these requirements, including everything
from educational STEM
robots to high - tech race cars and specially -
designed kids tablets.
The research included a variety of topics,
from the complex sequence of genetic processes that control when a plant flowers to how three - legged dogs could help
robot design and what ostrich anatomy could tell us about dinosaurs.
The set includes six models (three
robots and three fun micro-designs) plus 63 additional building and
design techniques
from the creators of the set.
From LEGO's Master Builder Academy comes this
robot design kit.
The homely
robot that emerged
from the
design process last March sported an ingenious forklift - style ball lifter that doubled as a bar grabber, and it looked to be a contender.
Researchers
from the University of Warsaw with colleagues
from LESN (Italy) and Cambridge (UK) have now developed a natural - scale soft caterpillar
robot with an opto - mechanical liquid crystalline elastomer monolithic
design.
Drawing inspiration
from the leafcutters, Eliseo Ferrante, a roboticist at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and colleagues
designed robots whose objective was to gather cylindrical blocks — the analog of leaves — at the top of a ramp and return them to a «nest» area at the bottom.
From that realization, only a small conceptual leap was needed to
design the first efficient walking
robot.
But now two computer scientists report a tiny step toward that future with a robotic system that
designs and builds
robots with just a bit of help
from a human hand.
Postdoctoral researcher Aaron Becker
designed a new control algorithm that allows swarms of r - one
robots from Rice University's Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory to complete complex tasks — including spelling out Rice's trademark R.
(A graduate student could probably still get a doctorate
from CMU for
designing a
robot to do something as simple as climbing stairs without tripping or stacking plates and cutlery in a dishwasher, an assignment that might be evaluated by how few crystal goblets were broken when loading the machine.)
A new resource unveiled today by researchers
from several Harvard University labs in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin provides both experienced and aspiring researchers with the intellectual raw materials needed to
design, build, and operate
robots made
from soft, flexible materials.
In an effort to minimize injury and let carpenters focus on
design and other bigger - picture tasks, a team
from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created AutoSaw, a system that lets you customize different items that can then be constructed with the help of
robots.
Researchers
from Harvard University and Seoul National University in South Korea studied live water striders, which can skate and leap on water, to
design the
robots.
There are researchers who create
robots that move like snakes; some study human movements and functions by making a humanoid
robot, and
from there they train the
robot to play table ice - hockey, dance, and even juggle; some work together to
design an electronic wheel chair that can be controlled by the tongue; some are interested in creating a database of human facial expression that can be used in creating animation and facial pattern recognition research.
«Designing custom
robots in a matter of minutes: MIT CSAIL's «Interactive Robogami» lets you
design and 3 - D - print origami - inspired
robots from 2 - D
designs?.»
Researchers have
designed and built a tiny
robot that not only walks on water, but leaps free
from its surface, talents that mimic the water strider.
In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide,
robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity
from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they
design and build.
This was a challenge because the
robot features a mechanical arm
designed to scoop up game pieces and extend so that it can place these pieces on pegs as high as three meters
from the floor, she adds.
The concept was straightforward —
design and build a
robot that could pick up inflatable game pieces (triangles, circles and squares each about a meter in the diameter) and hang them on pegs protruding
from walls on either side of the 8.2 - by 16.4 - meter playing floor.
In the past,
robots attempting to recover
from damage would have attempted upward of hundreds of thousands of movements in an inefficient trial - and - error process
designed to overcome injury.
In an effort to remove the
robots from their battery - shackles, Baughman and colleagues have
designed two types of artificial muscle that also act as fuel cells — converting chemical energy to mechanical movement.
The
robot draws its power and the signals that command its movement
from the specially
designed electrostatic surface it crawls on.
From a beach - cleaning robot to affordable diagnostic tools and better - fitting prosthetics, the fourth annual Senior Design Expo showcased innovations from the Class of 2017 that embody the vision of Columbia Engineering for Human
From a beach - cleaning
robot to affordable diagnostic tools and better - fitting prosthetics, the fourth annual Senior
Design Expo showcased innovations
from the Class of 2017 that embody the vision of Columbia Engineering for Human
from the Class of 2017 that embody the vision of Columbia Engineering for Humanity.
Information
from the study could help in the
design of
robots that may need to move on surfaces such as sand that flows around limbs, said Goldman.
These range
from cinematographer Roger Deakins's overt restaging of many iconic shots
from the first film, to Dennis Gassner's production
design that meticulously matches its grimy neon - noir urban dystopia, to the dashing trench coat worn by this movie's young
robot - hunter, K (Ryan Gosling).
Whether the groundbreaking special effects, the visual scope or the intricate set
design, greats such as Ridley Scott, George Lucas and Stanley Kubrick have borrowed
from it (Lucas modeled C - 3PO directly after the Maria
robot).
The world
design in a post-era destroyed by
robots looks incredible
from all points.
Indeed, Caleb's uber - rich, genius boss, Nathan (played by Oscar Isaac, in what may be the best performance of the year to date), did
design a humanoid
robot with all of the traits that Caleb most desires through the secret collection of data
from Caleb's computers, cell phones, etc. (there was a special emphasis put upon Caleb's «porn profile» when it came to
designing the
robot, Ava's, face).
I pretty much just started
from scratch and threw out years of stuff that just didn't work but the
design of Victuals, the
robot suit and the lighthouse were pretty much untouched.
There are no other
robots present in society, and the ones that do fight don't have any personality apart
from the individual aesthetics in their
design.
Each week, two days are centered around apprenticeships in areas ranging
from the artistic (watercolors, graphic
design, recycled sculpture) to the pragmatic (healthy eating, buying a car, opening a bank account) to the downright cool (software
design and
robot building in programs sponsored by Google).
The skillset that was once taught in home ec classes intertwines with other more technical skills as students
design and create
robots from the circuitry to the embellishment.
Others partner with engineers at the Sarnoff Corporation and with mentors
from Princeton University to
design and build a working
robot to enter in a national competition.
The reformed qualification is
designed to ensure pupils are «equipped with the skills employers need» and will give them a chance to develop their own
design briefs and projects ranging
from furniture
design to computer controlled
robots.
Museums, libraries, community centers and after - school programs have
designed physical and virtual «makerspaces» to host communities of supportive peers and mentors invested in creating everything
from nail polish
design and webpages to jewelry and
robots... and now, even school curriculum.
Elementary students get the chance to work with adults, including STEM professionals
from local businesses, to
design, build, test, and program
robots before competing against other schools.
In March, the Robotics team
from The Children's Guild's Monarch Global Academy Public Contract School was awarded first place for
robot design in the FIRST Lego League.
Designers for the Morgan EV3 say that its sleek, tubular
design is inspired by 1930s aero - engine race cars, classic motorcycles, and
robots from the 1950s.
Now a team of researchers
from Harvard has developed this little
robot, called Root, that's
designed to make writing code a more tangible experience.
With the vision bug fixed, the
robots went
from dangerous to unstoppable, and the
design team then had to rebalance their aggression and vision variables to return to the «feel» we'd previously settled on with the bugged system.