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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)
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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
I hope these links could be useful for you: Bookmarks UBUNTU vmware image VMware Player with your own Ubunt
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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Vibration Analysis of Multilink Manipulators Based on Timoshenko Beam Theory
Timoshenko's theory is adopted in order to accurately describe the freely vibrating dynamics of...
A Novel Bioinspired Vision System: A Step toward Real-Time Human-Robot Interactions
Building a human-like robot that could be involved in our daily lives is a dream of many scientists...
Parallel Robot Translational Performance Evaluation through Direction-Selective Index (DSI)
Performance indexes usually provide global evaluations of robot performances mixing their...
Local Exponential Regulation of Nonholonomic Systems in Approximate Chained Form with Applications to Off-Axle Tractor-Trailers
Most of drift-less nonholonomic systems cannot be exactly converted to an nonholonomic chained form...
Distributed Synchronization Control to Trajectory Tracking of Multiple Robot Manipulators
This paper investigates the issue of designing decentralized control laws to cooperatively command...
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