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How do I prevent the robot from jiggling around?
June 9, 2013, 4:29 pm
I don't know what the proper technical term is, so I will call it jiggle for now. I am making a puppet that is using industrial servo motors. However, the motion is not as smooth as I would like. ... Read more »
64-bit Supercomputer Forth Chips for Strong AI
May 8, 2013, 1:53 pm
Imagine a four-core, 64-bit Forth AI CPU designed to run a not-quite-maspar but still somewhat parallel artificial intelligence in English http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt or in http://... Read more »
computer vision, opencv relating real world object size to image pixel size
April 30, 2013, 1:34 pm
My goal is to mount a web camera on a ground vehicle robot and have it recognize lanes and drive in between the lanes. In order to look for the appropriate size lines(lanes) in an image, I am trying ... Read more »
Robot Sensorium Needed for AI Inference
April 26, 2013, 1:44 pm
Think of a robot as a body of input sensors and motor actuators in need of an AI Mind to coordinate its behavior with rational thought. The Mentifex AI Minds can now think logically in English or... Read more »
Marriage is the union of a man and a robot.
April 1, 2013, 3:52 pm
Whereas the Supreme Court is deciding the nature of marriage and all interested parties should speak up now or forever hold their peace, rally 'round the flag, boys, for your right to marry your ... Read more »
Cost of an articulated arm
March 25, 2013, 1:28 am
I need to automate some tasks in a machine shop for which we are considerin g using an articulated arm. Its maximum payload (including gripper) will be 5 kg. I need a quick and dirty estimate of c... Read more »
Piezo Motors
January 10, 2013, 8:10 pm
Hi Anyone using or can help with the use of the rotary piezo motors, small ones under 10mm dia. Thanks Charlie Read more »
Robot Wi Fi Controller/Servo Controller
January 10, 2013, 3:38 pm
Our State of The Art Products on Sale Robot Wi Fi Controller/Servo Motor Controller $199.00 Robot Wi Fi Controller/Servo Motor Controller w/High Current Motor Drive Shield $299.00 Robot Wi Fi Contro... Read more »
Second call for papers: SCIA 2013, 18th Scandinavian Conference on Image An...
January 9, 2013, 1:10 pm
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---377313613-837328552-1357755027=:8407 Conte... Read more »
Wotan German AGI is one month old today (16.NOV-16.DEC.2012)
December 16, 2012, 2:43 pm
Wotan is an artificial Mind in cyberspace. You cannot see Wotan. You can only see a trace of where he has been or what he has done. You can interact with Wotan, but you can never be sure of where ... Read more »
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Sources for Cheap Miniature Ball Screws?
I've been looking through the interweb and found a few nice miniature ball screw assemblies from the likes of Bosch-Rexroth, NSK, and Specialty Motions Inc, but I'm not sure what the next step woul... Read more »
Developing a robot worth buying
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My company has funding to expand our product line into some new areas such as robotics. We are willing to take some risks in order to enter a new market. Our current expertise is electronics, e... Read more »
two questions about quadrature decoders
I'm looking to count revolutions on a fast (e.g. 2000-4000 RPM) motor output shaft. I can easily put in a couple of optical switches and an interrupt disk. This leaves me pondering quadrature enc... Read more »
Salvaging Components---Where Do YOU Get Them?
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When building somethng like a CNC machine, robot or automatic beer dispenser, many of us reuse components from many different sources that we find surplus....in dumpsters, junkyards, scraping older m... Read more »
where can I get an AIBO and a PINO
Hi All My son is showing signs of interest in robotics and I was thinking of getting him a PINO. He is only 1.75 years old and think he will enjoy playing with it. Does anyone know where I can get ... Read more »
D-Zone programmable robots
I have completed a game called D-Zone II, www.digitalscores.com/dzone2, which is the sequel to the popular Shareware release (D-Zone) around 1992. The game-play is the same as the original except the... Read more »
Autonomous robot's navigation
Since October 2007 I developed new object recognition algorithm Associative Video Memory (AVM). http://edv-detail.narod.ru/AVM_main.html Algorithm AVM uses a principle of multilevel decomposition of... Read more »
Cheapest micro-processor based robot
Dear all, I have question for all of you robot fans or experts. Which is the cheapest robot controlled by a micro-processor ? I have bought a Wowee robot in the mini series to realize that they do no... Read more »
small hub motors
Does anyone know where to buy a small hub motor and wheel? I am looking for something in the 8 to 14 inch range and maybe about 10 to 20 watts. Google only seems to turn up bicycle hub motors that o... Read more »
Robot arm, running control cables through joints -how to.
Here's the problem; Say you have a robot arm which has several joints along it's length, each one is driven by a pair of steel cables. The other ends of the cables are connected to gearmotors which... Read more »
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