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Robots Galore A Few Recent Articles on Robots
Robots Galore I've just dug up a few week old articles that escaped me the first time round... the nifty devils. Robots Puts Students First http://www.spacedaily.com/news/robot-01i.html Discusses a non-profit competition for clever robots, doing abnormal non-human tasks. Robo Doc Gets An Eyefull http://www.spacedaily.com/news/robot-01j.html About the creation of an automated eye-testor, which has NASA interested for a startrek like autonomous doctor (not a hologram!) Robots Dive in Quest for Weather Secrets of Seas http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011117/sc/australia_weather_dc_1.html Mapping the marine currents via thousands of simple small robots that drift around. A good example of how stochasticity can help solve complex practical problems. Embodied Intelligence Projects Home page http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/fun/robots/ Also see http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/31/140215 Describes a lego robot that avoids walls, and guards a corridor. Sounds like the folks at MIT are having great fun! Steering Behaviours http://www.steeringbehaviors.de/ More of simulated robotics via simple reactive rules. The german team has done research in artificial life (there are more and more doing this), and created a user interface for their tool. Robotic Fly http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/nov01/innovation5.asp Shows the smallest ever robot with flapping wings. Not very smart yet, but hey... you can't have everything! | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Tuesday 20 November, 08:25 Reply