Robot Links!
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Member Submitted Links
- The XPort
This tiny device has a full OS running a TCP stack with loads of protocols. It has 256K Ram, 512K flash, 385K for web pages.- Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects
- Parallax's Gas Powered Robot
- Society of Robots
A good site for beginners- The Journey Robot
Another great looking robot from David P. Anderson. Really nice use of IMU to supplement odometry. Especially cool is the hat-trick video.- A transforming robot
Sometimes it's a car, sometimes it's a humanoid robot- The new Lego Mindstorms
- OmniTread
A serpentine robot. Even better than the Shrimp robot. Check the video. Real cool.- "Emiew"
2 wheels, 4 feet tall, 6km/h, from Hitachi- Shrimp III
Can climb very large obstacles relative to its size- A walking logging machine!
- Rambling robots show human efficiency
- Ted Larson's balancing robot
Cool use of the CMUCam 2!- Martial arts robots hit Asian tech fair
- Humanoid Robot to the Max!!!! using a BMW Mini Cooper.
- Really cool humanoid videos
- A nicely constructed walker
Check out the '3D' PCB that he's using- A tiny Linux controller board.
200 MHz, 4M flash, 64M RAM- Lego Rovers
- An artist/ web guy/ robotic guy...and some ideas for wild robotic projects
- Using Lego Mindstorms to solve the Rubic's Cube
- Great articles (in 18 chapters) on choosing and caring for batteries
- Golf Ball Retrieving Robot
- Robotic Snakes
- Personal Robotics News
- Internet Controlled Robot at C.A.C.T. labs, StLawrence College
- LegWay
- nBot Balancing Robot
- Eagle schematic and layout software
- How to use Eagle schematic and layout software
- MachineGrid - articles, tutorials, projects
- Cyberbotics
- How to modify a servo
- RC servos
- ROBOT Science- Technology Magazine's Online Supplement for Educators, Students
- Robotics FAQ Table of Contents
- TALOS
- Welcome to BattleBots(TM)
- What is PID - Tutorial
- J.A. Sethian - Fast Marching Methods and Level Set Methods
- Precise Miniature Robots and Desktop Flexible Production
- A robot gallery provided by Arrick Robotics
- CareBot from Gecko Systems
Motor Control
- A great detailed overview on how stepper motors work - part 1, part 2
- Control of Stepping Motors - A Tutorial by Douglas W. Jones
- Motor Control Module
- PID Control Information from John Shaw
Robot Plans
- Cricket the Robot
- Johann Borenstein - Mobile Robots, Obstacle Avoidance, Odometry, Positioning, etc..
- Kam's Homepage
- My Robots
- personalrobotics.net
- Roganti's Robotics Zone
- Shadow Robot Project_ Biped Walker
- SRAT
- Student Papers From Previous Semesters
- The Yoda Project
- Workshop Documentation
Sensors
- Bill Harrison on IR detectors
- Dennis's OK Web Page
- Dinsmore Sensors
- Implementing Infrared Object Detection
- Infrared `Radar'
- Larry Barello
- Paul's Cheap Sonar Range Finder Design
- PIC Based Imaging Sonar
- Sci.electronicsFAQ - IR ASCII Schematics
Vision
- RoboRealm - Free Image Processing Software
- Improv - Image Processing for Robot Vision
- Robotics_Structured Light Vision
- CMUcam
- AVRcam
- Improv - Image Processing for Robot Vision
Competitions
Sumo
- OMSI SUMO
- Robot Sumo
- Robothon Sumo
- Ryerson
- OCAD Sumo Robot Challange - Bashing/crashing/smashing robots sponsored by the Ontario College of Art & Design
- USA Robot Sumo - Japanese champions come to the US! $2000 first prize.
- All-Japan Robot Sumo - Worlds largest robot competition with 3000 robots entered!
- North East Indiana Robot Games - Three weight classes of Robot Sumo Mayhem
- Robot Sumo - The annual competition also features rope climbing, maze, and other events
- Robot Sumo
- RoboTag - Autonomous Mobile Robots Playing Tag
- BEAM_WCRG Robot Games Homepage
- 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition - MIT's famous robot competition
- Aerial Robotics Competition - This is the place for smart helicopters and blimps
- BattleBots - The most dangerous collection of battling robots in the world.
- BotBall - Teams of High School students have six weeks to design, build, and program a mobile robot
- Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Contest - Autonomous robots extinguish fires in a maze
- FIRST - Corporations sponsor local High Schools across the US.
- Intelligent Robot Contest - Sendai, Japan.
- International Festival of Sciences and Technologies - France's big robot competition
- Micromouse Competition - The UC Davis Micromouse page
- MIROSOT - The Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
- RoboCup - The International Robot Soccer competition
- RoboRama - Robot competition sponsored by the Dallas Personal Robotics Group
- Robot Battles - Head-to-head combat with other 'bots
- Robot Wars - A UK TV show
- Robothon - The annual competition of the Seattle Robotics Society
- SME Student Robotic Challenge - Long-running competition
- Western Canadian Robot Games - Canada's premier robotic event includes Robot Sumo, BEAM, and Robot Hockey
- Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects