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TORC Technologies is automating dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks by commercializing intelligent robotic technologies into interoperable off-the-shelf products, providing the essential building blocks for rapidly enabling autonomy on virtually any platform...
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Team Victor Tango is comprised of Virginia Tech undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and a Virginia Tech autonomous systems spin off company, Torc Technologies. The DARPA Urban Challenge competition pushes the limits of robotics, requiring teams...
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The Berkeley Aerobotics group is also expanding its research scope into the advanced control and coordination of fixed-wing UAVs. Leveraging on their expertise, experiences, and thoroughly investigated flight control software from the rotary wing cousins...
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Berkeley Aerobot Team’s Ursa Electra UAV series is, as the name implies, based on an electrically powered radio-control helicopter, Maxi-Joker. It was originally designed to serve as the vehicle platform for a DARPA Perch-n-Move project. The helicopter...
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BEAR research facility features a fleet of BEAR helicopter UAVs, fixed-wing UAVs, unmanned ground robots, and a mobile ground station. Since its beginning in 1996, more than six helicopters have been instrumented and five of them are in full service....
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The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC) uses a miniature autonomous waypoint tracker flight control system, and the creation of a multi-vehicle platform for experimentation and validation of multi-agent control...
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The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC) is a multi vehicle test bed used to demonstrate new concepts in multi agent control on a real-world platform. In order to make such a testbed easy to use, the Stanford team...
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Wall climbing robots can perform inspection, observation, repair, and act as communications relays. Their small size allows them to enter areas that are inaccessible to humans. The tri-leg Waalbot uses dry adhesion to stick to walls and ceilings as it...
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The Boston Engineering FlexStack is a tiny, rugged deployment platform that combines the flexibility of LabVIEW Embedded technology with the power of the Analog Devices Blackfin Processor. With these 2.5 by 2.5 in. stackable modules, you can implement...
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With a high-resolution camera, a 3-axis accelerometer, and a Bluetooth wireless link, the Nintendo Wii Controller (Wiimote) offers exciting possibilities beyond use as a video game controller for the Nintendo Wii. One of National Instruments' Application...
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The c-Link Systems Trak-Bot is a tabletop educational robotic vehicle used to explore and demonstrate autonomous vehicle motion. The robot is perfect for students and hobbyists to test motion programming or autonomous concepts that need to be demonstrated...
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Lindsay Lawler, inventor of the Electric Giraffe, discusses the project's past, present and future, from it's 10 month-long build cycle, to adventures at the Burning Man festival, to it's role in shaping the imaginations of future generations...
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Based on Tamiya's little model of a walking giraffe, the Electric Giraffe is a 17 foot tall robotic giraffe that borrows this toy's walking mechanism. The giraffe uses a small 12 horsepower engine burning propane gas to charge system batteries...
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Lego Mindstorm products have spawned a completely new group of robotic Lego builders; adult fans of Legos. From polynomic robots to shooting robots, engineers are spending their free time exploring the limits of the NXT platform in a robust programming...