Saturday was the final day of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015 at the Pomona, California Fairplex. Coverage of the first day’s exhibits is here. There were over 80 exhibitors at the event, as well as the finals challenge. Here’s some video of the exhibit area from Day II. Looky Read more …
Friday was a good day to go check out the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015 at the Pomona, California Fairplex. There are over 80 exhibitors at the event, as well as the finals challenge. The event continues on June 6, 2015. Here’s some video of the exhibit area: There were Read more …
The iRobot Create 2 is an affordable robot platform for education and research. Looky here: Introduction We are at an interesting point in time in the robotics world. Robots encompass a wide variety of disciplines and engineering, the cross roads where virtually everything technical meets. By their nature, robots are Read more …
Apollo Timbers over at Second Robotics is nearing completion of the NVIDIA Jetson Robot, a robot that is an experimental platform for vision and human interaction. Here’s a glamour shot: . Update 6-7-2015: Here’s some newly released video of the robot in action: Build Blog In the Build Blog, the Read more …
Recently the Zebracorns (FRC Team 900) from Durham, North Carolina participated in the 2015 FIRST Robotics competition. The event was held in St. Louis in April. As part of their robot, they integrated a NVIDIA Jetson TK1 connected to a Logitech C920 camera. They used the Jetson to run Zebravision Read more …
Robot Operating System (ROS) was originally developed at Stanford University as a platform to integrate methods drawn from all areas of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, vision, navigation, planning, reasoning, and speech/natural language processing. You can now install it on the Jetson! Looky here: Background From 2008 until 2013, development Read more …
A couple of videos have shown up on YouTube showing quadcopter control using image recognition on the Jetson TK1 and Tegra K1 based systems. The first is from Kazuya Sato which shows a PG400 enRoute quadcopter being controlled from a Jetson TK1. Looky here: What’s going on here? I couldn’t Read more …
Back in January of 2015, MIT offered a class called RACECAR (Rapid Autonomous Complex-Environment Competing Ackermann-steering Robot). The class outline: We will design and implement perception and planning algorithms for cars that can quickly navigate through complex environments. The class will be divided into six teams. Each team will be Read more …
There were several Jetson TK1 based robotic vehicles at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2015 in San Jose, California. Looky here: Officine Robotiche – Jetson Champs In the NVIDIA booth, there were two members of Officine Robotiche: Raffaello Bonghi and Walter “Myzhar” Lucetti both from Italy. Their robots are based Read more …
One of the projects I’ve been working on required a Pan and Tilt mechanism. Both pan and tilt controls are controlled by servo motors, which could be controlled by the Jetson. The RobotGeek Pan and Tilt Kit seemed to fit the bill, so I acquired one. Here’s a video of Read more …
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