More about Robotics (243)

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...

1-07-2007 | Service robots of the future will most likely need to act on spoken commands and be able to recognise voices. This article takes a look at o...

1-02-2007 | As processors become ever more powerful we are witnessing the rise of more ’intelligent’ systems. We now look to sophisticated robots to ass...