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Category Archives: robotics
Animatronic Nikola Tesla Sets the Record Straight
While the Hackaday reader likely knows all about Nikola Tesla and his incredible body of work, the same can’t necessarily be said for the average passerby. Even a child can be counted on to know the names of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, but as [Daniel Springwald] laments, the …read more
Posted in animatronic, Nikola Tesla, robotics, robots hacks
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Assemble Your (Virtual) Robotic Underground Exploration Team
It’s amazing how many things have managed to move online in recent weeks, many with a beneficial side effect of eliminating travel making them more accessible to everyone around the world. Though some events had a virtual track before it was cool, among them the DARPA Subterranean Challenge (SubT) robotics …read more
Spherical Quadruped Arduino Robot
[Greg06] started learning electronics the same way most of us did: buy a few kits, read a few tutorials, and try your hardest to put a few things together. Sound familiar? After a while, you noticed your skills started increasing, and your comfort level with different projects improved as well. …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, animatronics, arduino, astromech, BB-8, diy, droid, first project, instructables, quadruped, robotics, robots hacks, star wars, transformers, Zoids
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Compliant Quadruped Legs Using Servos
Walking robots that move smoothly are tricky to build and usually involve some sort of compliant leg mechanism — a robot limb that can rebound like natural physiology for much better movement than what a stiff machine can accomplish. In his everlasting quest to build a real working robot dog, …read more
Posted in 3d printing, hobby servo, james bruton, OpenDog, quadruped, robotics, robots hacks, walking robot
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DARPA Challenge Autonomous Robot Teams To Navigate Unfinished Nuclear Power Plant
Robots might be finding their footing above ground, but today’s autonomous robots have a difficult time operating underground. DARPA wanted to give the state of the art a push forward, so they are running a Subterranean (SubT) Challenge which just wrapped up its latest round. A great review of this …read more
DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit Now Livestreaming
Currently underway is the DARPA Subterranean Challenge (SubT) systems competition for urban circuits streamed live on YouTube now through Wednesday, February 26th.
The DARPA Grand Challenge of 2004 kicked research and development of autonomous vehicles into high gear. Many components on today’s self-driving vehicles can be traced back to systems …read more
Teardown: BilBot Bluetooth Robot
Historically, the subject of our January teardown has been a piece of high-tech holiday lighting from the clearance rack; after all, they can usually be picked up for pocket change once the trucks full of Valentine’s Day merchandise start pulling up around the back of your local Big Box retailer. …read more
It Turns Out, Robots Need Tough Love Too
Showing robots adversarial behavior may be the key to improving their performance, according to a study conducted by the University of Southern California. While a generative adversarial network (GAN), where two neural networks compete in a game, has been demonstrated, this is the first time adversarial human users have been …read more
Posted in human in the loop, machine learning, robotics, robots hacks
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David Williams Is “FPGA-Curious”
If you hadn’t noticed, we had a bit of an FPGA theme running at this year’s Superconference. Why? Because the open-source FPGA toolchain is ripening, and because many of the problems that hackers (and academics) are tackling these days have become complex enough to warrant using them. A case in …read more
Posted in 2019 Hackaday Superconference, cons, fpga, hardware, robotics
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Navigating the Dark Side: Controlling Robots With Zero Radio Communication
While autonomous robots have been the subject of some projects in the past, this particular project takes a swing at building a robot that can teach children about controls and robotics.
The idea is to mimic a space mission on the dark side of the moon, where radio contact is …read more