Robots And Tech

Friday, July 18, 2014

Riverside Robotics Sumo Competition

Riverside Robotics Sumo Competition Riverside Robotics Society mini sumo robot competition April 19, 2014.

Robots playing Soccer for RoboCup. They may win Humans in World Cup within few Decades.

This video is showing interesting game of Robots which are playing Soccer for the Robocup.

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1997. The aim is to promote robotics and AI research, by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge

The official goal of the project:

By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.

Watch this video to see the RoboCup 2011, finals: Nao-Devils vs.

Meet Jibo, a Social Robot for the Home

Meet Jibo, a Social Robot for the Home MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal introduces her latest creation, Jibo, a social robot for the home that is now available for pre-order. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/cynthia-breazeal-unveils-jibo-a-social-robot-for-the-home

Valkyrie manipulation planning

An envisaged planning sequence for the NASA Valkyrie robot. Given the sensed scene, our algorithms plan a hypothetical planning sequence to pick some objects from a table and to drop them into a bucket.

This pairs with the same planning sequence for an Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6QVl2nR04s
Which can be then demonstrated on the real robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOb5JN9N9PI

The transfer of the PLANNING sequence to the NASA robot could be done with no modification of the original code.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

LADEE Prelaunch Briefing