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Tag Archives: open source
2012 a Big Year for MakerBot – New 3D Printer, $Millions in Funding, and Huge Growth Ahead
Three years ago they had three employees and were still trying to keep their equipment from breaking down. Now MakerBot [...]
New Startup Romotive Turns Your Smartphone Into A Robot (video)
How awesome is Romo the Smartphone Robot? Without knowing anything about it, you simply have to look at the robot’s [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged iPhone, open source, romo, romotive, smartphone, telepresence
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Electric Sheep: Stunning Visual Creatures Spawned By Thousands Of Computers While They Sleep
“Dr. Chandra, will I dream?” “I don’t know.” If Hal was somehow able to dream after Dr. Chandra shut it [...]
Posted in Art, Video Central
Tagged brain-computer interface, creative commons, electric sheep, flame, genes, open source, scott draves
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Luna Personal Robot Brings You Telepresence and More for $3k. Can It Be a Game Changer?
A few months ago a video was leaked of a mysterious robot. Now, after its official launch I can tell [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged Luna, LunaOS, open source, personal robot, RoboDynamics, ROS
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A $25 Computer The Size of Your Thumb! (video)
It’s called Rasberry Pi and the price for the new computer is as delicious as its name. Under development by [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Video Central
Tagged $25 computer, David Braben, open source, Rasberry Pi
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Android Crushing iPhone – Open Source For the Win
Google’s Android is spreading like wildfire. In little more than a year phones based on Google’s Android OS have gone [...]
Willow Garage’s PR2 Robots are Officially On Sale for $400k With Possible Discounts
How much would you pay for a robot that can plug itself in, beat you in a game of pool, [...]
Open Science Summit 2010 – Thursday Review
Over the next few days, Singularity Hub will be bringing exclusive coverage of the Open Science Summit 2010 taking place [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged data access, Open Science Summit, open source, OSS
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Your Mobile Phone Becomes A Robot With Cellbots (video)
Sure, we’ve all seen robots being controlled by a mobile phone, but how about a robot that is your mobile [...]
Qbo – The Tiny Open Source Robot Wants to Invigorate Human-Machine Interaction
Francisco Paz (aka TheCorpora) has released new information about his open source robot Qbo. The diminutive wheeled bot stands only [...]
HARK! Sound Separation Software for Telepresence Robots (Video)
Part of the reason animals have two ears it to help them pinpoint where a sound is coming from and [...]
Flying Drones for Your Home from DIY Drones (Video)
So apparently building a military style drone is a do-it-yourself project now. DIY Drones is an online community that helps [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Robots
Tagged Chris Anderson, DIY Drones, do it yourself, open source, open source hardware, uav, Unmanned aerial vehicles
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Breaking News: Willow Garage Announces 11 Winners for its Robot Give Away
Today is a good day to be a robotics engineer. Not only is it the first day of ICRA, it’s [...]
Pimp Your Artificial Limb with the Open Prosthetics Project
We all have those moments when we look at a commercial gadget and think: “you know what this thing really [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged artificial limb, John Bergmann, Jonathan Kuniholm, Lego Hand, myoelectric, Open Prosthetics, open source, OPP
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Willow Garage Lets You Control Your Robot From a Web Browser (video)
Willow Garage is one of the leading innovators of open source robotics, so it’s no surprise that they introduce some [...]
Willow Garage Celebrates April Fools’ with “Telepresence for Robots” Video
Everyone likes playing April Fools’ pranks, but when you get robots in on the action, it’s just that much funnier. [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged open source, personal robot, PR2, Telepresence for Robots, Texai, Willow Garage
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Berkeley Gets Willow Garage Robot to Fold Towels – Simply Stunning Video
Robots just got roped into doing some light housework. Researchers at UC Berkeley used Willow Garage’s PR2 robot to fold [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged ICRA, Maitin-Shepard, open source, open source robotics, Pieter Abbeel, PR2, UC Berkeley, UCB, Willow Garage
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Willow Garage Shares Specs for TeleRobot, Takes It To Show and Tell at School
Wouldn’t you have loved to be the kid who brought a real life working robot to school for show and [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged Dallas Goecker, discovery day, open source, PR2, Rob Wheeler, show and tell, telepresence, telerobot, Texai, Texas Alpha, Willow Garage
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Newest Graffiti Belongs to Robots (Video)
Dang-blasted kids with their music, and their clothes, and no respect for authority. They’ve gone and corrupted law-abiding robots, teaching [...]
Posted in Art, Robots
Tagged #000000book, ABB, Carnegie Mellon, F.A.T., GML, graffiti, graffiti markup language, open source
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Willow Garage Creates Awesome Open Source Telepresence Robots
Fans of open source robotics need look no further than Willow Garage. Not satisfied with merely creating an amazing robot [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged open source, telepresence, Texas Alpha, Texas robots, Willow Garage
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Take a Virtual Trip Through The Brain of a Mouse
It may sound like the premise for the next roller coaster ride at Disney Land, but UC San Diego is [...]