video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPZk3wlqRdM
Check out this cool robot made with iRobot and CMUCam.
“This is an iRobot Create fitted with a Robot Arm I pulled from an old Radio Controlled vehicle. It uses a Propeller Protoboard and motor controllers and accelerometers from Parallax to control the Arm and monitor it’s position using the two accelerometers mounted on the arm. The Create is controlled by another Propeller and uses a CMUCam1 for Color Tracking to track the object. A S
Here’s a cool roomba for robot enthusiasts that iRobot just released. Great news for todbot! Now he can spend more time making some more cool stuff with this one although he’s hacked Roomba enough that we probably don’t need this new IROBOT Create…dur… Thanks chiwawa for the info! :0)
Today at the Consumer Electron
Cool, looks like wireless mesh technology is coming to robots…
The folks at iRobot stopped developing Jetsons-inspired robot vacuum cleaners for a second to crank out the Sentinel, a technology that allows users to control several different robots simultaneously from a Tablet PC. The technology is being aimed at our fighting men and first responders so they can more safely and efficiently haul ass. The Army threw iRobot some cash to de
