NAO Next Gen Robot

This family-friendly humanoid robot designed by Aldebaran Robotics is also a multi-functional robot with features including microphones, HD cameras, Wi-Fi connectivity, Hi-Fi speakers, pressure sensors, a voice synthesizer and much more. It has made appearances at events including the Shanghai Expo in China with a synchronized dance routine, at Robocup participating with its own football team, in the UK teaching autistic children, and even demonstrating a stand-up comedy routine in December 2011. Read more at http://realitypod.com/2014/10/the-top-five-mind-blowing-robots-of-2014/#TajsM2ZH5iDAbyEE.99

Paul the Drawing Robot

This robot created by artist and researcher, Patrick Tresset, is a sketcher shaped like an arm that is able to draw portraits of people. It was primarily designed for Tresset’s “New Work” gallery installation which occurred in London in 2011. Read more at http://realitypod.com/2014/10/the-top-five-mind-blowing-robots-of-2014/#TajsM2ZH5iDAbyEE.99.

Pepper, the emotional robot

Another robot by Aldebaran Robotics, this emotional humanoid bot is designed to be able to assess moods, and interact with humans. It is able to shake hands, dance and display messages on the display screen on it’s chest. Read more at http://realitypod.com/2014/10/the-top-five-mind-blowing-robots-of-2014/#HQIHMayVl2ASCduX.99.

The Hybrid Exploration Robot for Air and Land Deployment.

is composed of two snake-like machines that attach via magnets to a UAV. After being carried to the site by the quadcopter, snake bots can detach themselves, slip through the holes and cracks of a collapsed building, for instance, and slither to their destinations.

The US military is considering the use of exoskeletons like this Sarcos for its soldiers

It was inevitable that funding for these projects by the US Military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) would lead to spin-offs finding their way into private startups. There are now at least another three companies developing exoskeletons for commercial use and the focus is on creating them to help people with spinal injuries. A Swedish company, Ekso Bionics, makes a 20kg titanium and aluminium suit that costs $100,000 a pop, which has helped several crippled individuals walk again for the first time.

Friday 2 October 2015

Meet Dash and OSHbot: the robot workers who might steal your job

More than 130,000 robots are predicted to be sold by 2017 as hotels and retail outlets start trialling automated staff. Mark Harris meets two of them

Dash and OSHbot are both hard-working employees in demand. Dash serves guests in a Silicon Valley hotel, while OSHbot works as a retail assistant in downtown San Jose, California. Only they’re not people. They are the first of a new breed of mobile, semi-intelligent robots designed to assist customers and work alongside human employees in shops, hotels and hospitals – and perhaps ultimately even replace them.

Related: The ethics of AI: how to stop your robot cooking your cat

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DIY POWERUP PAPER PLANE FLIGHT EXTENDER

Maybe you've wanted one of those powerup planes, but they are so darn expensive! This instructable will solve that problem by showing you how make one for just a few bucks! Components This is made up of:A supercapacitor (1F min)A plug of your choice, both male and female plugs, in this case I use...
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How to make a 3D hologram at home

I will show you how to make simple and easy 3D hologram at home. You can use any LCD screen, any smart phone or your laptop. According to your chose you have to adjust the size of your hologram pyramid. In this tutorial I show how to use your LCD screen to make 3D hologram. What you need You...
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Signal Generation with MATLAB. Example of DTMF in telephony

In mathematics a signal is a real function of a real variable f(t). In electronics it represents the evolution of a voltage (or a current) over the time and depends on the performances of the stage of the amplifier. Through a memory buffer, samples move to a digital-to-analog converter that pro...
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Thursday 1 October 2015

Reutilizando partes de una impresora

Aquí les traigo un método de disminuir dispositivos que puedan ser útiles para ustedes. Las impresoras son unos dispositivos con mecanismos realmente complejos desde la manera de generar el movimiento para deslizar la hoja en posiciones exactas, así como también de las impresoras multi funcionales q...
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Convert ioLibrary into BSD socket style on W5500-EVB

W5500-EVB platform was announced by WIZnet. So I implemented a firmware of W5500-EVB by using BSD socket API because I can handle a source code easily.You can know http://wizwiki.net site. Please refer to the following step. Prepare materials Please refer to the following.1. W5500-EVB board. ( ht...
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Asteroids Con OLED Y Arduino

Acá un juego retro "Asteroids". Que ocupamos:Arduino UNOOLED SSD1306 display (en esta caso el Itead OLED2864)Potenciómetro 10kBotónJumper cables y breadboard Conexiones El OLED diplay se conecta como se indica en la foto:OLED vcc - Arduino 3.3V (aunque esta conexión no hace falta)OLED gnd - Ardui...
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Python Programming - Slices

Short Python program that demonstrates how to use slices (segments) of a string.Below and attached.========================================print ("This program will print slices (segments) of strings.")StringEntered = input("Enter a word or phrase: ") StringLength = len(StringEntered) print ("The le...
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aquaponic BALCONY GARDEN

aquaponic BALCONY GARDENIoT (Internet of Things) Capable if you are interested in this aspect of aquaponics.DIY PROJECT -- purchase materials locally and build -- by rik kretzingerWith all the interest around the world in aquaponics there are a number of creative units being developed for small s...
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Primer programa de Arduino

El Arduino es un micro/controlador que se programa desde una computadora. Una vez descargado el Arduino IDE, y conectada la comptadora, seleccionar el tipo de placa y el puerto serial (instrucciones acá).El lenguaje de programación que se utiliza es C/C++, que es un lenguaje bastante simple. Un pro...
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Control a Robot with a RC Transmitter & Receiver

In this instructable we will walk through how to set up a traditional RC hobby Transmitter and Receiver with a RoboClaw motor controller to drive a robot around (such as ServoCity.com's Runt Rovers). Wire it Up. Motors: If you have more than 1 motor per side: wire the motors on each ...
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More-flexible machine learning

Researchers have presented a new way of doing machine learning that enables semantically related concepts to reinforce each other. So, for instance, an object-recognition algorithm would learn to weigh the co-occurrence of the classifications 'dog' and 'Chihuahua' more heavily than it would the co-occurrence of 'dog' and 'cat.'

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LED TUBELIGHT

1 watt power led are used Materials Required 30 ledsleds heat sinkcasing caping battentransparent plastic pipe2 bottle caps Wires Tools required soldier glue Making led tube light put led on heat sink and soldier it. led should be soldier as per polarity on sink shown. casing caping...
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Sending SMS and Email from your IoT device

Phone notifications are a good way to get alerted about anunusual activity. When we are developing an IoT solution it is always good to send SMS to user’s phone for certain activity as the smartphones are always within reach. It is not always possible for a user to monitor the data with a Mobile app...
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Electronics Tools

All the Tools and Equipment I want to build. null null null null Tools Organizer - Made with 3d Parts and OJ Funnels DIY Fume Extractor DIY Soldering Station Discreet Electronics Organizer Bench Power Source
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DIY Cassette Tape Echo

This project will show you how to make an analog tape echo effect for use with electric guitar or any other audio source. The cassette tape echo employs the same basic principle as legendary vintage units like the Roland Space Echo or more primitive reel-to-reel tape echo setups, but using much chea...
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Microchip PIC Library to Control a 20 by 4 LCD over I2C

This Instructable presents a 'C' library for controlling a single 20 by 4 LCD based on the HD44780 LCD controller over I2C using the NXP PCF8574 Remote 8bit IO Expander. The LCD is configured for 4 bit interfacing and can be written to and read from via the microcontroller. In this case the PIC18F26...
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How to fix Desktop Icon Positions Not Saving in windows 10

How to fix desktop icon positions not saving windows 10. If you put icons on Desktop in a certain order in Windows 10 and restart your computer, Windows 10 forgets the icons position and always puts the icons at the extreme left corner of the screen. Same thing happens with folder view settings. ...
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Epilog Laser Instruction

Here is a brief tutorial on using FabLab Tacoma's Epilog Laser Engraver 75 watts, 36x24 bed size. This is set up using Corel Draw with a vectorized image of a duck. This does not apply for every laser engraver, and if you are unsure about your settings check your laser manual or the internet for rec...
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Homemade Raspberry Pi Case Projects DIY Home Theater Computer HTPC Aluminium CNC Milling

Homemade Raspberry Pi Case Projects DIY Home Theater Computer HTPC Aluminium CNC MillingSingle-board microcomputers such as the Raspberry Pi 2 are making it cheaper and easier than ever to learn about computers.Simply put, the Raspberry Pi 2 is a magnet for innovation. Not only is the single-board m...
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L298N Motor Driver Controller Board

A guide on how to use the L298N Motor Driver Controller Board, this is a dual motor controller board that allow you to control the direction & speed of two DC motors or one stepper motor.The L298N Motor Driver Controller Board is a very low cost module, there are several design variants available on...
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KP Hazel/walnut cracker

This year was very good and bring to me several sacks full of walnut and hazelnut...to much for hand cracking...So, lamp switch on, visit flee markt and collect parts for....electric cracker.And I made it....SincerelyKresimir ASEMBLING... An picture is worth a 1000 words.All measurements and dim...
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The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford / Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan – review

Silicon Valley is out to disrupt entire industries – because that’s where the big money is to be made. How long before we lose our jobs?

In 1960, IBM realised that its own customers were alarmed by its new data-processing equipment. If these machines really were as clever as advertised, wouldn’t they threaten the jobs of the office managers buying them? In response, IBM came up with a phrase that still expresses what many of us think of as a central technological truth. “Computers,” it assured its clients, “can only do what they are programmed to do.”

Well, not any more. As both Jerry Kaplan and Martin Ford, old Silicon Valley hands, explain in highly readable books that are somewhere between the complementary and the almost entirely overlapping, computers have long outgrown this quaint summation. Instead, they can now work things out for themselves, proceeding by trial and error to develop their own programs according to their needs – in what Ford calls (I don’t think metaphorically) “a process of Darwinian natural selection”. They can also take a scientific interest in the world around them. In 2009, a computer at Cornell University faced with a double pendulum took only a few hours to formulate Newton’s second law of motion – considerably less time than it took Newton.

Related: Will robots create more jobs than they destroy?

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Boxing The Teensy 3.1

If you like to play with microcontrollers, you probably know almost everything about the Teensy board. If you do not, please keep reading because before moving on I will briefly introduce this little wonder to you.The Teensy USB Development Board, now to its fourth revision, the Teensy 3.1, is a tin...
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How to get all information about a WEBSITE ?

all info Set your target you want to get information of ... set the target of the website you're going to WHOIS. Little hacking go to silentregister.com ( this is not my website)find in menu WHOIS LOOKUPopen that type the domain you want to get information ofthere you go ...this was for educat...
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ShapeCrete-3D printed mold (candle holder)

This instructables goes over our first attempt to make a 3d printed candle holder mold, specifically for use with shapecrete a new concrete/clay like material here is a link to their site.It covers - 3D design and creating custom sized holder ( Formula for any sized candle that is straight and round...
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