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Yellow Drum Machine - on tracks!
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I need to lay my hands on this little chap. He rolls around making beats, sampling himself and doing it again. He gets robot of the month award for sure.
What it does? Basically:
* Navigate around, collect some data, avoid obstacles, until it
* Finds something "worth playing on" (a single isolated object or a wide flat surface that it can find an angle onto)
* Snakes into place
* Plays some beats on what it have found, and samples this, checking it has a "good sound"
* Based on data collected in the area, and sample just made, then compose a little rhythm, and plays this along with the sample
Lego Robot Completes Rubiks Cube
Tilted Twister solves Rubik’s cube fully automatically.
Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister’s turntable. An ultrasonic sensor detects its presence and starts to read the colors of the cube faces using a light sensor. The robot turns and tilts the cube in order to read all the faces of the cube. It then calculates a solution and executes the moves by turning, tilting and twisting the cube.
Hella lot of work, but sweet. It might be old? but its new to me.
Making the Future with Robotics
Robotics is a hot topic worldwide these days. Amongst this global buzz, Takayuki Furuta is involved in research and development of a different kind of robot. Instead of focusing exclusively on humanoid robots, this robotics engineer and developer of the Morph, Hallucigenia, and Halluc II robots approaches his work from a new perspective. Check this link for an in-depth report from his unique angle.
