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Robotics

Become a member of Robotics World and join other like-minded engineers looking to make the next best robot. Learn (and help teach others) how to make robots, from simple bristlebots to lifelike mechanical human clones.

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Sep 11, 2008

Illah Nourbakhsh of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute teaches you how to set up and use your Gigapan robotic system. Watch all four videos to see the process from start to finish. Learn how to use ...

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Jun 30, 2008

Here's how to make an electric motor with some wire. It looks like a cool spider. ...

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Jun 30, 2008

Herbie the Mousebot is a very quick, easy-to-build, light-chasing robot kit, perfect for beginners. This little robot is so quick, you have to run to keep up with him! This is from make magazine. MAK ...

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May 30, 2008

This is a three part video on how to make a swashbot robot. Check it out! ...

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Mar 20, 2008

This robot is BEAM bot inspired. First we build up the Motor Drive, an excellent and cheap Robot Bot-Base. We start with the Tamiya kit, get it going, then strap on a battery and a drag wheel, center ...

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Mar 6, 2008

Control an i-SOBOT with a wiimote. This tutorial shows how to do the i-SOBOT Slapping maneuver using Robodance and the Nintendo Wii Remote with Nunchaku attachment. ...

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Feb 29, 2008

A video tutorial on how to use the wiimote to control a Lego NXT robot. Link to download GlovePie: http://carl.kenner.googlepages. com/glovepie_downloadScript for Glovepiewiimote.Leds = 9Key.F1 = Wii ...

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Feb 26, 2008

Check out this video to learn how to make a RepStrap robot. This project entails LOTS of materials. The only way you can learn what to use is by watching. ...

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Jan 12, 2008

A five minute film on how to make your own edible robot. Edible robotics is an exciting new field of research into robots as food and prey. This research was supported by Robo250, the Robotics Institu ...

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Dec 11, 2007

Mousey the junk bot is a light sensing robot made out of an old computer mouse. Bre Pettis of Make Magazine goes over how the pieces are installed and talks about some mistakes that he wishes he coul ...