Robots And Tech

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Golem Group Golem 3 CalTech Alice DARPA Autonomous Vehicles

75 State of the Art Exhibits, "Best we've ever seen!!"......

Instrumentation 2008 Expo & Training was held on February 28, 2008, in Southern California. The list of training classes and contacts from this year's expo is presented at www.instrumentation2009.com, along with details about next year's expo.

"The largest exhibition dedicated to state of the art instrumentation and process control on the west coast," it features a dozen technical training sessions.

Dropping in on Mars in High-Res

Dropping in on Mars in High-Res This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high-resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Friday, December 20, 2013

NASA and Caltech Test Steep-Terrain Rover (Axel) - Video File (AVC-2009-018)

Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and students at Caltech have designed and tested Axel, a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters.

Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

Prof. Wolfgang Fink - Wall-E's Cousin at Caltech

Wall-E's cousin is a battery-operated rover equipped with an onboard Unix workstation, infrared sensors for obstacle avoidance, navigation cameras, and loudspeaker system. The rover can operate autonomously or it can be tele-commanded from anywhere in the world via the Internet or autonomously controlled.

Robot Rock Climbing , el primer robot capaz de escalar .

JPL ha desarrollado el primer robot escalalar. Este video presenta escalada ensayos en vertical, saliente, y los ngulos invertidos, y un simulacro de gravedad cero para los astronautas. "Video Presentacin de un Robot Rock Climbing", de Aaron Parness, Matt Frost, A Jonathan King, Nitish Thatte, Kevin Witkoe, Moises Nevarez, Michael Garrett, Hrand Aghazarian y Brett Kennedy, del JPL / Caltech, fue presentado en IROS 2013 en Tokio, Japn.
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JPL has developed the worlds first rock climbing robot.