Creatively calling the plug-in boards "capes" in reference to the cape worn by a beloved cartoon beagle super hero, the active open source BeagleBoard.org community designed the plug-in boards to foster an even wider range of innovations such as robot motor drivers and sensors that measure location and pressure.
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In the game, the Indian-born billionaire is featured as a robot that has to be defeated.
The software that powers the robots, known as the Robot Operating System, or ROS, is more common.
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Thanks to spotty Wi-Fi coverage, we'd go a short distance, talking naturally, then halt as the robot lost signal, or veered off.
The current demonstration implements a tethered solution as the robot's source of power, pumps, gasses and liquids, but future developments may allow for a self-contained system.
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The always amusing HAL 9000 account (yes, somebody tweets as the robot from "2001") posted an "animated JIF" -- which is to say, a swirling, animated jar of the tasty, high-protein spread.
The snakes observed appear to accept the robot as real, with one snake even biting the robot's head, according to researchers.
Interestingly, the 2005 Guinness World Records listed the QRIO as the first bipedal robot capable of running (which it defines as moving while both legs are off the ground at the same time).
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We are currently exploring ways for Henry to use a PR2 robot as his surrogate.
The magazine gets its name from the Japanese animation character Mazinga Z, who was also known as Our Lord Robot.
We may look at a robot as being incredibly adultlike and smart: Machines such as IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue and "Jeopardy!"
Their conclusions will perhaps give pause to those who see the ultimate robot as something which physically resembles a human being.
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Daniel Sandberg is tweaking the remote control system of a 6-foot-tall robot as it wanders through the halls, broadcasting what it sees to a laptop.
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As for the robot itself, it's currently designed to work with an 11-inch MacBook Air that conveniently doubles as its torso, and it relies on a PrimeSense motion sensor to monitor its surroundings.
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He discussed and showed pictures and videos of his experience as one of the 3 drivers of R2-D2, re-creating the Energizer bunny, various robotics and automated systems for Mythbusters as well as making the robot skeleton, Geoff Peterson, for the Late Late Show.
Trower, who's working on Microsoft's own software platform for robotic systems, says this kind of PC bot would serve as a multiapplication communication and work device, but it would have microphones and touch-screens for interacting with humans and the same adaptable and moving form factor as a small robot.
As an alien robot attempting to master the ways of New Yorkers, Murphy is expectably uproarious, but more than half of his screen time is given over to his straight-man role as the captain, who, along with the rest of his crew, undergoes an emotional awakening upon contact with the joyful irrationality of life on earth.
The little robot serves as a combined assistant and guard dog.
"I see today's robot toys as predecessors to the future of the robotics industry just as my Apple II and Atari now seem like toys compared to computers today, " Trower says.
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The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet.
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With this in mind Dr Hover and Mr Englot, along with a team of colleagues, used a robot known as the Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV), which was developed at MIT and has since been commercialised by a company called Bluefin Robotics.
It is fed in part by some of the familiar pejoratives associated with tech geekery (Denton as anti-social robot, for example), and also by his own publications, which, in the interest of his vaunted transparency, occasionally turn their pitiless gaze on the boss himself, for comic effect.
Commercial robot makers such as Tmsuk, based in south-western Japan, say they were shut out too.
As the music plays the robot will grow a head, arms, and legs and start dancing.
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Campaign groups such as the International Committee for Robot Arms Control have been formed in opposition to the growing use of drones.
The Mars Curiosity mission featured a Reddit AMA, a weird web-video featuring a woman in an American flag bikini and a robot head, as well as streaming video of the landing.
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Just as DARPA and other humanoid robot developers have drawn on biology for design inspiration, the agency hopes that robotic actuation can approach the efficiency of human and animal actuation where muscles, tendons, and bones cooperate in highly efficient ways.
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