[Petar and Sylvain] are teaching this robot to flip pancakes. It starts with some kinesthetic learning; a human operator moves the robot arm to flip a pancake while the robot records the motion.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.28 at 17:24
[MC] realized he had forgotten about an order for 2000 cut wires that was now due in a few days. Rather than dropping everything to complete the task, he whipped up this machine to cut the wires for him.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.28 at 16:53
Those crazy programmers over at the Willow Garage are at it again. This time around they’ve created a robotic wench to deliver the beer. When thirst strikes you can fire up a web interface and drag a picture of your beer into a shopping basket.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 07:48
When faced with having 2 cats with different dietary needs, [Landmanr] had to decide between manually stopping the cat on a diet from eating normal food, or building a dietary robot overlord.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 07:41
[Oleg] worked out a way to use his USB mouse to control this manipulator arm. Using a Lynxmotion AL5D (we’ve seen the AL5A previously) he drives the six servos with an Arduino servo shield.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 07:31
We usually envision small wheeled robots when we thing about swarm robotics but these cooperative quadcopters make us think again. This is an extension of the same project that produced those impressive aerial acrobatics.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 07:26
Inspired by a ducted fan project to simulate lunar landers he had seen recently, [Charles Guan] decided to do the next logical thing and make a ducted fan driven shopping cart.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 07:05
Imagine our surprise when this article on Ecobot III and the disgusting video above showed up in our feed. The robot can theoretically be self-sustaining forever, so long as it has a food source.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 06:52
CubeStormer solves Rubik’s cubes and it does it quickly! Made entirely out of LEGO, a Mindstorm web camera is used to scan in the cube with four mechanical hands for manipulation.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 06:33
[theGrue] has posted his Robot remote control project for us to gawk at. This box o’ buttons is a parallax propeller brain with some Xbee units for communication.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 06:31