Videos tagged with Robotics

Bay Area Vision Meeting (more info below) Perception for Robotics Caroline Pantofaru and Radu Rusu March 7, 2011 ABSTRACT Perception for robotics is growing as a field. What was once a specialized area utilizing expensive sensors and using situational information unavailable to more general computer vision problems, is merging into the mainstream. Cheap sensors such as the Kinect provide 3D dat...

Google Tech Talk (more info below) September 13, 2011 Presented by FIRST Team Antipodes from Terra Nova High School in Pacifica, CA: Violet Replicon, Emma Filar, Kjersti Chippindale, Elizabeth Bowler. ABSTRACT The Return of Team Antipodes: Team Antipodes met with Google Engineering last year to showcase their experiences within FIRST Lego League (FLL) afterschool robotics. http://www.youtube.co...

Google Tech Talk February 14, 2012 Presented by Ron Garret. ABSTRACT The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away The Remote Agent Experiment (RAX) was an autonomous control system for an unmanned interplanetary spacecraft called New Millennium Deep Space 1 (DS1). In May, 1999, control of the DS1 spacecraft, a $150-million asset, was handed over to the Remote Agent sof...

Bay Area Vision Meeting (more info below)Perception for RoboticsCaroline Pantofaru and Radu RusuMarch 7, 2011ABSTRACTPerception for robotics is growing as a field. What was once a specialized area utilizing expensive sensors and using situational information unavailable to more general computer vision problems, is merging into the mainstream. Cheap sensors such as the Kinect provide 3D data to ...

This talk is about MakerBot, a new low-cost, open-source CNC fabrication robot produced by MakerBot Industries. MakerBot is an evolution of the RepRap project. Adam Mayer, one of the three founders of MakerBot Industries, will be on hand to present and demonstrate MakerBot and answer questions. Adam Mayer is one of the three founders of MakerBot Industries, and one of the core members of NYC Re...

Urbi is a middleware for concurrent and distributed programming, based on a new parallel and event-driven script language called 'urbiScript'. Using a familiar and easy-to-use syntax, the language offers several concurrent abstractions rooted in the language semantics, together with an integrated scheduler and a distributed component architecture called UObject, based on C++ or Java. urbiScript...

A technical look at designing robots for the enterprise, how they can free us from time and space, and how they will spawn a new generation of collaboration, remote labor forces, and remote service industries. Santa Monica based RoboDynamics now entering its fifth year is sending TiLR, its four foot tall robot into the real world and getting some real world feedback. The first TiLR was installe...

Veronica wants to giveaway a Zune, details in the show! Patrick reviews Gateway's One all-in-one PC. ReadyNAS vs Drobo: Which is more futureproof? Does 1080p matter on a small HDTV? Veronica wants to giveaway an 80GB Zune, details in the show, along with Craig's question about downloading podcasts directly to the Zune. Dear Microsoft: Veronica might buy a Zune if you had Mac software for it... ...

Ready to build your first robot? A sumo robot is a great place to start, and we've got the complete how to from David Calkins! Giant flailing heavyweight combot robots might get the most air time, but they're a horrible place to start out in robotics. Super expensive, super complicated. And they need a human with a remote control to fight... so are they really robots? Sumo Robots are a much bet...

1UP.com's Garnett Lee stops by to lend a hand as we check out Data Robotics' DroboShare and Spot's Personal Locator Beacon. Plus our the freebie download pick of the week and the GOM media player