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Robotics

Android controlling a Surveyor mounted on a Blmp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz6X4BJ1ZFw

A robot in the industry

A sentry gun managed by Linux

ATRON Modular robots

The ATRON robot is a lattice-based self-reconfigurable robot with modules composed of two hemispheres joined by a single revolute joint. Mechanical design and resulting system properties are described and discussed, based on FEM analyses as well as real-world experiments. It is concluded that the ATRON design is both competent and novel. Even though the ATRON modules are minimalistic, in the sense that they have only one actuated degree of freedom, the collective of modules is capable of self-reconfiguring in three dimensions.

Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and Caterpillar Inc. To Automate Large Off Highway Haul Trucks

The Robotics Institute will be adapting more than a decade's worth of its research into self-driving vehicles for use with Caterpillar's two largest haul trucks, each with payload capacities of 240 tons or more. This is the first major project resulting from a three-year master agreement for sponsored research signed last year by Carnegie Mellon and Caterpillar, the world's leading manufacturer of construction, mining and other heavy equipment. Researchers at the Robotics Institute's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) will work closely with Caterpillar's Pittsburgh Automation Center.

Robot with Rat Brains Learns to Avoid Obstacles