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Robots Attempt Record Breaking Pacific Ocean Voyage
Nov 20, 2011

Four robots have set out on an epic 33,000 nautical mile (66,000km) journey across the Pacific Ocean. Created by US firm Liquid Robotics, the four are aiming to set the record for the longest distance at sea travelled by an unmanned craft. Throughout their journey the robots will gather lots of data about the composition and quality of sea water. The journey is expected to take about 300 days, and is designed to inspire researchers to study ocean health.


Mars micro-rover Kapvik may tether to larger vehicles
Sep 18, 2011

A Canadian prototype for Mars and moon micro-rovers could be tethered to larger vehicles to avoid getting trapped in sand.


UC Berkeley Team Has Quadrotor Catching Balls
Sep 18, 2011

A team from the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) has released a video showing a quadrotor catching balls. The video also details some of the incremental improvements made in the hardware of the quadrotor and the software controlling it. (via Automaton)


Latest from our Bloggers

Rosjava – Java for Robotics?
posted by semesa2 on Sep 24, 2011
 In May Google and Willow Garage announced the first pure-Java implementation of ROS - Willow Garage's Robotic Operating System. Called...
Liquid Robotics Pacific Crossing Challenge for Wave Glider Robots
posted by semesa2 on Sep 22, 2011
A few months ago James Gosling turned up at Liquid Robotics. Liquid Robotics designs robots called Wave Gliders that collect sensor data while...
Controlling Lego Mindstorms with Java (Lejos)
posted by jfalkner on Feb 2, 2008
I just had the chance to play around with Bryan E. Smith's Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. We installed Lejos and I was coding programs directly from...
How to create applications with Sun Spot?
posted by felipegaucho on May 31, 2007
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What's hot in James' Tech Day at JavaOne
posted by bboyes on May 19, 2006
The huge projection screen at the front of the hall seemed to be a cut above what it's been in the past, in terms of brightness, color gamut, and...
 

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Skill Evaluation from Observation of Discrete Hand Movements during Console Operation
This paper focused on discrete movements of hand in reaching actions, which necessarily occur...
The Kinematics Analysis of a Novel 3-DOF Cable-Driven Wind Tunnel Mechanism
The kinematics analysis method of a novel 3-DOF wind tunnel mechanism based on cable-driven...
Massive Sensor Array Fault Tolerance: Tolerance Mechanism and Fault Injection for Validation
As today's machines become increasingly complex in order to handle intricate tasks, the number...
HCBPM: An Idea toward a Social Learning Environment for Humanoid Robot
To advance robotics toward real-world applications, a growing body of research has focused on the...
Humanoid Walking Robot: Modeling, Inverse Dynamics, and Gain Scheduling Control
This article presents reference-model-based control design for a 10 degree-of-freedom bipedal...