All items tagged with robotics and robots (175)

1-07-2007 | If your mobile robot’s sole function is to roam about the tiling or wooden floors of your home, it’s not very likely to have much need of th...

1-07-2007 | Quite simply, it’s a light-seeking robot — a sort of moth (on wheels) if you prefer, since, just like its counterpart in the living world, i...

1-07-2007 | Fans of the film ‘2001 a Space Odyssey’ will no doubt recall the polite yet sinister voice of HAL, the ship’s computer. It stands to reason...

1-07-2007 | Industrial production-line robots require high-resolution sensors to measure the position of robotic actuators so that the tools can be accu...

1-07-2007 | You will do doubt have seen pictures from ‘RoboCup’ showing robots booting footballs from one end of the pitch to the other. Building an ele...

1-07-2007 | Although ‘just for fun’ robotic applications can usually make do with the few bytes to few hundred bytes of Flash memory that’s available in...

1-07-2007 | More than any other electronics project, these days a robot can virtually not manage without at least one microcontroller to run it. So of c...

1-07-2007 | A (frequently unfulfilled) ambition of every robot builder is to make their machine capable of autonomous navigation. This is an ideal appli...

1-07-2007 | Although the majority of robots built by amateurs move around using wheels or caterpillar tracks, two categories occupy a place apart becaus...

1-07-2007 | In this Summer Circuits issue with robots as its theme, we can hardly afford to overlook the RoboCup. The RoboCup is a collective internatio...