The application domains are quite varied and include, for example, playing soccer with
a small team of robots, supporting companies that are distributed over the globe, or responding to a disaster with a large ad - hoc organization consisting of different emergency services.
Not exact matches
One
of the projects was dubbed the «Store
of the Future» and consisted
of a
team building out a prototype for a
small - format Target store that would be part showroom and part warehouse, with
robots picking items behind the scenes to have ready for customers as they checked out, sources say.
The
team first tested the grippers in the Robo - Dome, a giant air hockey table at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where two 370 - kilogram
robots gently pushed each other around using a
small square
of gecko gripper.
Now, a
team of roboticists has managed to emulate the cooperation strategy
of leafcutter ants with computer simulations
of small, four - wheeled
robots.
In other
robot news, a
team at the University
of Lausanne, Switzerland, programmed groups
of small robots to behave like ants.
The new wing architecture, which could greatly simplify the manufacturing process and reduce fuel consumption by improving the wing's aerodynamics, as well as improving its agility, is based on a system
of tiny, lightweight subunits that could be assembled by a
team of small specialized
robots, and ultimately could be used to build the entire airframe.
It is based on a system
of tiny, lightweight subunits that could be assembled by a
team of small specialized
robots, and could ultimately be used to build the entire airframe.
Much
of the SRI
team's new external funding support and research direction came at the time from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office
of Naval Research, whose directors were primarily interested in using the technology for military purposes, including
small reconnaissance
robots and lightweight power generators.
The
team has installed a version
of the TAIGA system on a
small robot running the Linux operating system.
Lee Cronin at the University
of Glasgow, UK, and his
team built two
robots capable
of mixing liquids through a system
of pumps and analysing the results with a webcam hooked up to a
small computer.
(When talking to a scientist who helped devise
small, self - driving
robot drones that can play football in
teams, he asks if the most accomplished group
of drones can out - think Brazil's
team.
Unravel is made a by a
small team that genuinely care about videogames, proving that not all games are made by faceless groups
of money - grabbing
robots sitting atop massive corporations that churn out generic triple A titles.
Unravel is made a by a
small team that genuinely care about videogames, proving that not all games are made by faceless groups
of money - grabbing
robots sitting atop massive corporations that churn...
DARPA will use prize - based competitions and social networks to encourage
teams of students to design and manufacture go - carts, mobile
robots, and
small unmanned vehicles.
It's not that they can't afford fancy
robots to get the job done — the
small team of three prefers to do things this way.