By Carlos Asmat & filed under Cloud Robotics.
Another important announcement for the field of robotics was made at Google IO 2011 that complements the announcement for the Android Open Accessory Kit. As shown in the video below about Cloud Robotics (this presentation is very interesting and explores somewhat involved robot programming), there is a new implementation of ROS, the popular operating system for robots, that runs […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Humanoids.
Since the Kinect was released, lots of robotic applications have been developed around it. One of them is the teleoperation of humanoid robots using skeletal tracking. The pioneer in humanoid robot control using the Kinect is Taylor Veltrop, who controlled his Veltrobot (based on the KHR family) using ROS and NITE. The video below illustrates […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Humanoids.
Many new things happened at Willow Garage recently. So let’s go ahead and have a look at all the awesome news. ROS Turns Three The Robot Operating System celebrated its third anniversary. It has come a long way since its beginning and should go even further in the future. See the video below for a quick overview […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Domestic, Industry, Prototypes.
Tandy Trower, the 57 years old retired Microsoft employee and creator of the Microsoft Robotic Studio, launched a new Seattle-based start-up called Hoaloha Robotics. The main goal is to produce a unified programming environment and robotic interface (à la ROS) in order to commercialize affordable “socially assistive robots” (as they put it). Mr. Trower intends to develop elder care robots in […]
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