Category Archives: IEEE

Brainlink Gives Any Robot a New Brain

Posted on January 10, 2012 by dkohn96

From IEEE Spectrum Brainlink is a little piece of hardware that can augment (or replace) the brain that’s currently powering your robot. Yes, your robot. Any robot at all, pretty much, as long as it’s controllable with an IR remote … Continue reading →

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Amazing Nao Hack Offers Full-Body Teleoperated Kitty Grooming

Posted on January 10, 2012 by dkohn96

From IEEE Spectrum Groom your cat remotely using a NAO and Kinect. Full Article

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Inflatable Robots

Posted on December 26, 2011 by dkohn96

Back on Nov 23, 2011 IEEE Reported on Inflatable Robots on Spectrum Online. It is called Ant-Roach, because it looks like a cross between the two (their opinion not mine….I think it looks like an ant eater myself) It works … Continue reading →

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Memphis Boy Scouts Take Robotics Merit Badge

Posted on October 28, 2011 by dkohn96

On Oct 22, 19 Scouts from Farmington Presbyterian Church, Troop 368 came to the University of Memphis for a Robotics Merit Badge Day! Robotics Merit Badge, just added to by Boy Scouts of America this year, has scouts learn about … Continue reading →

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Robot Emotions on Display

Posted on July 26, 2011 by dkohn96

Polish Robot Coaxes Expressiveness Out of Weird Design From: IEEE Spectrum July 14, 2011 We’re always impressed by how much expressiveness and emotion can be squeezed out of even the simplest robot faces if they’re cleverly done, and Emys (for … Continue reading →

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Happy IPv6 Day

Posted on June 9, 2011 by dkohn96

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

Posted on June 1, 2011 by dkohn96

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

Posted on June 1, 2011 by dkohn96

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

Posted on March 8, 2011 by dkohn96

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

Posted on February 9, 2011 by dkohn96

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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