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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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John Gidney, a technician who runs NJIT’s Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering lab, and Dr. Kevin McDermott, a professor who's research interests are in the field of industrial robotics, discuss the Festo MPS and it's benefits to students...
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At the Vincent A. Stabile Laboratory at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, a companion robotics laboratory features 10 experimental stations, the Festo System, which gives students “hands-on” training in solving practical problems using robotics for...
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Army testing has shown that Chatten Associates' Head-Aimed Remote Viewer (HARV) more than doubles the mission performance of remote operations. It can be controlled by either a joystick or the operator's head motions. Both of these gimbals are...
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Major Pottratz discusses EOD robots in use today. TALON EOD robots were the first military robots taken into Afghanistan during action against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden in February 2002. They initially accompanied the Special Forces on a Classified...
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Military robots are widely used for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), reconnaissance, communications, hazmat, security, defense and rescue. TALON SWORDS robots can be configured with M240 or M249 machine guns or Barrett .50 caliber rifles for armed reconnaissance...
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Passive dynamic locomotion when applied to robotics creates a walking robot with three legs; two outer parallel legs balance the robot while a third middle leg swings between them to catch the weight of the system.
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The M.A.R.S. (multi-appendage robot system) is a robotic instrument designed to be used in zero gravity for the NASA JPL to walk outside the space station or the next generation space exploration task.
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Robots playing soccer my not seem like a huge accomplishment, until you see DARWIN. Short for Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot With INtelligence, this robot can track a ball and respond to it's movement, all the while under it's own programmed autonomy...
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The Mechatronics program at the University of Texas combines mechanical, electrical and other disciplines together to provide an integrated engineering degree from previously independent disciplines and includes student projects with real world applications...
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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...
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A new robotic hand developed by the German Aerospace Institute and the Harbin Institute of Technology uses servo-actuators which are completely integrated into the hand allowing the four fingers, each with three degrees of freedom, to grip with torque...