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Category Archives: IEEE
Happy IPv6 Day
From IEEE Spectrum June 8, 2011 Happy IPv6 Day We’ve run out of IPv4 addresses. Time to test drive the new protocol Interview Podcast found at http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/telecom/standards/happy-ipv6-day Happy “World IPv6 Day.” If that’s not on your calendar as a major … Continue reading
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Treebot Learns to Autonomously Climb Trees
From IEEE Specturm May 18, 2011 This is Treebot. As you might expect, Treebot was designed to do one thing: climb trees. It is by no means the first robot able to do this, but its arboreal predecessors (RiSE and … Continue reading
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Robbot Juggler
From IEEE Spectrum May 31, 2011 UPDATE: The Czech roboticists updated their video with labels and a slow motion sequence, making it easier to see how the robot juggles three, and then four, and finally five balls, and also how … Continue reading
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Top 10 Robotic Kinect Hacks
From: IEEE Spectrum BY: Evan Ackerman / Mon, March 07, 2011 We love Microsoft’s Kinect 3D sensor, and not just because you can play games with it. At a mere $150, it’s a dirt-cheap way to bring depth sensing and … Continue reading
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Robotics News from IEEE
Just received a wonderful web edition of “Robotics News From IEEE” Articles include: Building an Internet For Robots David Hanson’s New Robot Heads Robot Crawls on Power Lines A New Kind of Factory Robot Also included is a link to … Continue reading
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Humanoids2010 – IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Conference
Taken from: http://www.humanoids2010.org/index.php The 2010 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots will be held on December 6-8, 2010 at Nashville, TN, USA. The conference theme is “Intelligent and Dependable Humanoid Robots,” reflecting growing interests in developing intelligent and dependable humanoid … Continue reading
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Video of Prototype and Final UofM Robot
Here are two videos of the University of Memphis SoutheastCon 2010 effort. The first video is of our prototype to test the mechanical steering system of the bot. The video below was of a test run during SoutheastCon itself with … Continue reading
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SoutheastCon 2011
Next years SoutheastCon 2011 Robotics competition that will be held in Nashville TN March 17 – 20, 2011 was announced this past Sunday. The general objective is to locate “victims” in a building that has been in an earthquake. Robots … Continue reading
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IEEE SouthEastCon 2010
Both the University of Memphis and Christian Brothers University Competed in the Hardware (Robotics) Competition at SouthEastCon 2010 held in Concord, NC this past weekend. The object was to create a solar powered robot (no other power source was allowed). … Continue reading
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Memphis Universities off to SouthEastCon
Both Christian Brothers University and the University of Memphis are sending teams to this weekends IEEE SouthEastCon in Concord, NC to compete in the region’s Hardware Competition This year’s contest is to build an autonomous solar powered robot to run … Continue reading
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