The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the kitchen' means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.
Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
The real challenge in going under the belly was a robotics challenge, ... Jim and Wendy, they had probably the most challenging job of all. ... I had to find the gap fillers, and direct Wendy to take me there. ... Getting there was a big deal. Getting them out was not.
Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.
Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.
We are in real good shape to support putting off robotics until tomorrow. We could see that was coming.
When you think of Seattle, you think of Starbucks or Microsoft. But when people think of Pittsburgh, would they say, 'Carnegie Mellon University,' the center of the universe for robotics right now? It's amazing what you find here and it's a story that needs to be told.
Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007.
You think about your tools and your equipment, you think about your communications with the robotics people, you think about your clearance with the orbiter, you think about what will work, and if that doesn't work, what you'll do next,