Monday, September 7, 2009

Rule Of AbuRobocon 2010

Outline of the Contest
Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids is the main theme of this contest. The idea is
based on a virtual time machine that takes ancient Egyptian Great-Pyramids builders inside
classrooms of technical schools. The new target is to build parts of the three Pyramids in
sequence. Competing team members should be accurate, fast and cooperative. They should
adhere to the main requirement of not using binding material between blocks. The winner
team is the "Robo-Pharaoh" which succeeds to finish building assigned parts of the three
Pyramids first. During three minutes, red and blue teams compete in order to mimic one of
the surviving Seven World Wonders.








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Friday, January 9, 2009

Robotic Future Shock

Uh oh. Science fiction writers and directors have mined the idea of a robot revolution for decades, producing such classics as the “Terminator” film series. Doomsayers will take this next bit of news as evidence for humanity’s downfall as the Taser International corporation announced that it has teamed up with the iRobot Corporation to produce a new line of robots capable of delivering a shock charge to people.
These taser-equipped sentries will be sold to the military and police forces in the hopes of being used in a situation where non-lethal force is required to subdue an opponent. A human operator is still necessary to give the robot a command to subdue someone but already critics are warning that the day may come when the robot’s software is smarter and it doesn’t need a flesh buddy to give it any orders. Something like that went down in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”, didn’t it?
The two companies didn’t say when the first taser-armed iRobot would come off of the assembly line or where it would be deployed to at first. Still, this news makes us look at our Roomba in an entirely new light…

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ars Science Laboratory - Less Than a Year from Assembly and Testing Phase

The 2009 Mars Science Laboratory, the mammoth grandchild of the 1997 Sojourner rover, is less than one year from the assembly, test and launch operations phase (ATLO). With its immense increase in size comes advanced abilities in power, technology and science data collection. In early 2008, the team will start the flight vehicle assembly and testing, simulating on earth every challenge the brave new traveler will face during the mission.
"We have moved from paper designs to real hardware and software," said Matt Wallace MSL Flight System Manager. "To name a few of the things that have happened lately: the first control and power electronics have been delivered to the testbed, our mobility and touchdown test vehicle is assembled and rolling, the initial versions of the software code for our guided precision landing are running and the landing engines were qualified for flight. MSL is a much more complex spacecraft than those we've sent before, so our assembly and testing is going to be really challenging."
Teams that represent every rover subsystem are working furiously to meet deadlines and overcome challenges to ensure that the most advanced rover to go to Mars will make its date with destiny.

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