Sunday, October 21, 2012

2012-10-21 Sunday - Rodney Brooks on Baxter

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/169/4935.html

...a new offering from http://www.rethinkrobotics.com

2012-10-21 Sunday - NimbRo-OP, Open Source Robot

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/169-robotics/4964-meet-nimbro-op-teen-size-open-source-robot.html

"...launched by the University of Bonn."

",,led by Professor Sven Behnke, that won the Louis Vuitton Cup for "Best Humanoid" in this year's RoboCup"

"95 cm tall (37.4 inches) and weighs 6.6 kg (14.55 pounds). It uses 20 Robotis Dynamixel servos, 6 per leg, 3 per amr and 2 in the nexk. It has a dual-core AMD E-450 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 64GB solid state drive. It also come equipped with WiFi, a wde-angled video camera (Logitech C905) and a Robotis CM-730 controller with 3-axis accelerometer, and 3-axis gyro. The GNU/Linux software is based on DARwin-OP."

2012-10-21 Sunday - New 32bit Arduino

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/4965-new-powerful-arduino-due-.html