Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Robot Artificial Intelligence


  • Learn about Robot Artificial Intelligence

The simplest definition of a robot could be "a mechanism which moves and reacts to its environment", and there are many robot starter kits which use this definition in some form. The simplest of these I have seen is a fact file type book with a tray of electric and simple mechanical components together with an envelope of card board press out parts and stencils allowing the construction of a variety of wheeled and legged mechanisms which are crudely able to interact with the environment.

  • The "human-like" robot concept embodied as a Personal Assistant has been around since the beginning of this century. Only recently have the necessary technical advancements in engineering, fabrication, electronics, computers and software allowed the development of a flexible, articulated "human-like" machine to be affordably manufactured




robot used in outer space
  • The Canadian government chipped in $1.1 billion to develop a jointed construction crane that astronauts use to position themselves and large pieces of equipment during ISS construction. The Mobile Servicing System, better known as Canadarm 2, is a larger version of the space shuttle’s long robot arm, and its reach is eight feet longer. The space station arm was developed to move objects of more than 200,000 pounds. Or it can delicately move suited astronauts, plucking them up from the airlock and transferring them to designated work areas and back again, like a mother cat relocating kittens. The arm moves along a track built into the truss. Inside the station, astronauts use closed-circuit TV to guide the crane. Unlike the shuttle arm, Canadarm 2 has force sensors to provide an artificial sense of “touch” and an automatic collision avoidance system



  • Limits Of Life In The Atacama - a three year project to develop technologies and techniques to enable robotic astrobiology while also conducting scientific investigation of life in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

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