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As I wrote in “Rooms and living spaces in a SRCMR world” many things change when your living space becomes active and can do things for you. One maybe unexpected change is how we perceive travel. Self-reconfiguring modular robotics (SRCMR) will make travel transparent and almost unnoticeable. No more hassle, stress and wasted time and [...] http://youtu.be/f-iFJ3ncIDo
One really amazing thing that SRCMR can do is to totally transform our houses and apartments. It will do so in two deceivingly simple ways. First, it allows you to move and change your inner walls and floor surfaces etc at will* Secondly, it can create and change all your major furniture pieces like tables, [...] It is time for IROS and the Modular Robotics Workshop again, and from the program it looks really interesting. I will naturally attend the workshop on Sunday and then I will attend some standards meetings on Monday (thanks Craig and Raj for letting me lurk and learn). I think that getting good, open international standards [...] So yoyu think the Cubelets from Modular Robotics looks coool and you would like to play?
But you diden’t get one of the 250 prototype kits, and now they are out of stock That is where the flexibility Envelope comes to the rescue! You can win free tinkering time in the: [...] Victo Kuo In this episode we hear Victor Kuo talk about how he has developed radio communication that can handle many transmitters sending at the same time, which was a major obstacle to using radios for module to module communication. This will be a very powerful tool as it can handle the communication in all distances [...] In a post on ModRobotics.com called Hardware is Hard, Eric Schweikardt describes some of the problems he and the team had developing their Cubelets. (They have now shipped the first 100 kits, and one of them came to the Flexibility Envelope, check it out here: and here) What Eric and the team are doing is seriously [...]  This is three nice videos with a rundown of the latest prototypes Neil has done of his interesting self-reconfiguring modules, check his work out at www.selfreconfigurable.com and www.youtube.com/user/DesmondInnovation I think it is great that Neil shows us that you can develop and research Self-reconfiguring modular robotics(SRCMR) even if you do not have a big lab [...]  An interesting video of the progress Michael Rubenstein is making on the Kilobot project. If you want to know more about the kilobot and the systems capabilities here are som additional videos and a link the podcast interview I did with Michael Rubenstein on the Kilobots project att ICRA 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska. Building [...] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5SRtwx3kY”
Juan Gonzalez Gomez and a long snake robot In this episode we hear Juan Gonzalez Gomez talk about the snake modular robots he is developing. Everything is fully open source, so if you want to test making your own you can get started right away. But we start from the beginning and hear how [...]  Something very significant happened, when Nick Eckenstein and Matt Piccoli in ModLab, led by professor Mark Yim, made a copy of Willow Garage’s PR2 using 3 types and a total of 22 CkBot units. This is a very substantial step towards a universal machine. The development time was reported as less then a month [...] |
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