REMUS SharkCam: The Hunter and the Hunted
From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Vimeo page:
In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS "SharkCam" underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more than they bargained for.
Additional article in Oceanus Magazine.
Automated Vision Inspection and Parts Traceability in Automotive Assembly Process
Compared to manual inspection, a machine vision and barcode reading system offers improved accuracy, higher consistency, and it works non-stop, day in and day out.
Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In 2 Minutes
From Medium:
Today, Antoine Cully at the Sorbonne University in Paris and a couple of pals say they’ve developed a technique that allows a damaged robot to learn how to walk again in just a few seconds. They say their work has important consequences for the reliability and robustness of future robots and may also provide some insight into the way that animals adapt to injury as well... (cont'd)
Integrated Ultra-compact Barcode Imagers Enable Automated Laboratory Diagnostics
The EUROPattern Microscope is a high-performance automation solution designed for the evaluation of immunofluorescence slides in autoimmune diagnostics.
JIBO
From JIBO's Indiegogo campaign:
Friendly, helpful and intelligent. From social robotics pioneer Dr. Cynthia Breazeal.
OpenFPV
From Tilman Griesel's posts on DIY Drones:
Open source project to make FPV(first person view) with the raspberry pi easy to use for every one.
OpenFPV is a project that uses latest technology to provide low latency, easy and well tested open source FPV flying. Based on single-board computers, HD cameras and IEEE 802.11.
Current Features:
Recording
Web interface
Low-Latency H264 Streaming (≈120ms)
RESTful API
Customizable
Extendable
Installer (in progress)
Minimal bettery consumption
Roadmap:
Invite more people to join the development team
Complete the installer
More field tests with different setups
Create desktop applications for mac/win with HUD support
Add OculusVR support
Release is not available yet but you can follow the progress on DIY Drones or the OpenFPV homepage.
HEXO+ and their wildly successful Kickstarter project
Its a drone with an intelligent system that allows anyone to program it and have it either track a subject or follow planned scenarios.
5 Robotics Related Kickstarters And One Funded Product Available Now
We're always looking for new companies and products to spark the imagination of our readers. Crowd funding is a great place to look. Here are a few we think you will enjoy learning about.
Quoc Le's Lectures on Deep Learning
Gaurav Trivedi has put together a landing page with all of Quoc Le’s recent lecture series and accompanying resources:
Dr. Quoc Le from the Google Brain project team (yes, the one that made headlines for creating a cat recognizer) presented a series of lectures at the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS ’14) in Pittsburgh this week. This is my favorite lecture series from the event till now and I was glad to be able to attend them... (cont'd with all videos)
Effect of Robotic Driverless Vehicles on Auto Insurance Costs
The effects of RDVs is requiring the insurance industry to change its business dynamics whereby a greater portion of the liability will be moved from the car owner to the car manufacturer and infrastructure providers (federal and state).
Upcoming Tradeshow, Conference & Exhibition Summary - August, September & October
The end of Summer and beginning of Fall brings alot of great tradeshows for the Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing industry. The Chicago area is the place to be with several great shows scheduled. Here is a look at some of the key events for the next few months.
Parallella: $119 Parallel Computing Platform with 16-core Epiphany chip
Parallella Computer Specifications:
The Parallella platform is an open source, energy efficient, high performance, credit-card sized computer based on the Epiphany multicore chips developed by Adapteva. This affordable platform is designed for developing and implementing high performance, parallel processing applications developed to take advantage of the on-board Epiphany chip. The Epiphany 16 or 64 core chips consists of a scalable array of simple RISC processors programmable in C/C++ connected together with a fast on chip network within a single shared memory architecture... (cont'd)
A realtime raytracing example running on the 16-core Epiphany chip:
Machine Vision Technology Ensures Product Quality and Traceability at Del Monte Foods
A comprehensive Del Monte quality initiative sought to ensure product code legibility, and improve labeling accuracy and overall traceability of its canned fruits and vegetables.
Raspberry Pi Model B+
From Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi Founder:
This isn’t a “Raspberry Pi 2″, but rather the final evolution of the original Raspberry Pi. Today, I’m very pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability, at $35 – it’s still the same price, of what we’re calling the Raspberry Pi Model B+.
The Model B+ uses the same BCM2835 application processor as the Model B. It runs the same software, and still has 512MB RAM; but James and the team have made the following key improvements:
More GPIO. The GPIO header has grown to 40 pins, while retaining the same pinout for the first 26 pins as the Model B.
More USB. We now have 4 USB 2.0 ports, compared to 2 on the Model B, and better hotplug and overcurrent behaviour.
Micro SD. The old friction-fit SD card socket has been replaced with a much nicer push-push micro SD version.
Lower power consumption. By replacing linear regulators with switching ones we’ve reduced power consumption by between 0.5W and 1W.
Better audio. The audio circuit incorporates a dedicated low-noise power supply.
Neater form factor. We’ve aligned the USB connectors with the board edge, moved composite video onto the 3.5mm jack, and added four squarely-placed mounting holes... (cont'd)
Intro to Shape Memory Alloy Actuation Using Flexinol
From Jie Qi's projects page:
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are metals that change shape when heated up. They are wonderful actuators in that they are light, silent and can be "turned on" by simply running current through. The shape that they change to can also be set, though this process is a bit more tricky. Flexinol is a particular brand of nitinol, which is an SMA made of nickel and titanium, and is pre-set to contract about 10% of its original length when heated.
In my projects, I generally used the 0.006" to 0.01" diameter, High-Temp wires.
Since Flexinol draws a lot of current (about 300mA for the diameters I used), you need a strong power supply like a wall supply or a good lithium-ion battery. I've used from 3.7V up to 6V (any more and my Flexinol wires would start overheating). To turn the Flexinol on, I would simply short the ends of the wire to the power. For digital control, I used a standard MOSFET circuit which is a digital switch that can be turned on and off using a microcontroller... (cont'd)
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