Robocraft is a “build, drive, fight” game where the players engage in online battles in order to gain Robot Points (RP) and Tech Points (TP) to further advance their robotic vehicles. With Tech Points, the player can unlock better armour blocks, hardware, and weapons from a tech tree, which they can then purchase with Robot Points. Parts can also be purchased with “Galaxy Cash”, an in-game currency that must be purchased for real money; some cosmetic items are only purchasable with Galaxy Cash.

The player is given the freedom to customize their vehicle or robot in any way they like, as long as it does not exceed their in-game CPU limit (obscene or offensive models are also banned under the terms and conditions). The player’s CPU limit increases as the player levels up, and it restricts the player from adding too many blocks to their vehicle. Robots are also placed into Tiers based on an arbitrary rating assigned to each part. There are ten Tiers, from T1 to T10,

The game features a part-based damage model, where the basic parts of the vehicles must be destroyed with weapons in order to achieve a kill over an opponent. The player’s team will win once all enemy vehicles are destroyed. Alternatively, players can capture the enemy’s base to win the game. There are several

Different WEAPON CLASSES

-Subatomic Machine Gun,
-Plasma Launcher,
-Rail Cannon,
-Nanotech Disruptor and
-Tesla Blades)
SEVERAL PROPULSION TYPES
-Thrusters,
-Wheels,
-Caterpillar Tracks,
-Hover Blades,
-Aerofoils,
-Rudders,
-Walker Legs, and
-Rotor Blades

While weapons cannot be mix-and-matched, propulsion systems can.

Resources

Game Link: http://robocraftgame.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocraft

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A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory’s Modular Prosthetic Limbs.

Most importantly, Les Baugh, who lost both arms in an electrical accident 40 years ago, was able to operate the system by simply thinking about moving his limbs, performing a variety of tasks during a short training period. These Prosthetic Robot Arms are opening gates to new human cyborgs.

One other DARPA-funded robotic limb controlled by thoughts alone — actually make that two, because Colorado man Les Baugh had two bionic arms attached from shoulder level. Baugh got them this summer, 40 years after losing both arms, as part of a Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program test run at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. The project’s researchers have been developing these Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL) over the past decade, but they say Baugh is the “first bilateral shoulder-level amputee” to wear two MPLs at the same time. Unlike Jan Scheuermann who controlled a robotic arm with a pair of neural implants, though, Baugh had to undergo a procedure called targeted muscle reinnervation, which reassigned the nerves that once controlled his arms and hands.

Once that was done, the team recorded the patterns his brain makes for each muscle he moves, and then they had him control virtual arms to prepare for the real things. Since his arms were cut off from the shoulder, they also had to design a custom socket for his torso where the prosthetics can be attached. All their preparations were worth it in the end, though, as Baugh turned out to be a brilliant test subject: after just 10 days of training, he was already moving cups from one shelf to the other just by thinking it.

Resources

© 2015 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC. All rights reserved.

http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2014/141216.asp

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/18/double-amputee-mind-controlled-robot-arms/

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It’s a story about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines bodes for the future of war and the human race.

Resources

Read Now: The Evil ‘Star Wars’ Robot Who Owns the Term ‘Meatbag’ – http://bit.ly/1Hy6KLU
Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD

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Keywords: Nano, Silver, Ink, Inkjet, Printer, Printed Electronics, 31041

Printed Electronics by Robotpark

Researchers at “Robotpark R&D Labs” has developed an easy-to-use “conductive printer ink” which can print electronic boards with an ordinary inkjet printer. With this ink, you only draw your curcuit board in any drawing software, send it to your desktop printer and voila. “It is like magic...” says Harry Eliot one of the test engineers of the project.

After adding this ink to your desktop printers cartridge everything is ready. This process may be a little bit frustrating, but after you have successfully installed your cartridge, the magic begins.

The Nano Technology Beneath

The evolution of producing printed electronics — printing semiconducting organic polymers or conductive ink on paper or plastic to create electronically functional devices is a new approach.  These new manufacturing methods will play an increasingly important role in a wide range of applications. Silver Nano Particles which are smaller then 20nm are added to a special solvent, this makes the “Conductive Ink” but it is not finished. You have to use a special A4 Paper to ensure pattern integrity

Available in three different substrates, the self-sintering special inkjet media utilizes an adhesion layer, a micro-porous, solvent-absorbing layer for flexibility, print quality and instant dry benefits. The proprietary chemical sintering agents produce instant electrical conductivity and the resultant patterns look like gold foil stamping.

The Products

Robotpark’s Smart Conductive Series makes time-consuming and expensive thermal curing and other additional processes that are generally used to produce conductors no longer required.

Creating functional electronic devices faster, more easily and more cost-effectively is vital to research institutions, development engineers, students and electronical device developers. Applications, once too complex are now easy with Robotpark’s SCS (Smart Conductive Series) Silver Nano Inkjet Tech.

Whether it be in research labs or in test areas, development engineers can print with Robotpark’s SCS (Smart Conductive Series) on a variety of specially treated media for conductivity in seconds without heat or flash exposure sintering.

Links

You can order test samples with the following link if you are interested in this technology.
http://www.robotpark.com/Silver-Nano-Particle-Printer-Ink-10ml

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We would like to suggest that this is not the “Best Robot Movies of All Time”, but just a simple list that we made. Soon we are planning to make another list, which will include famous robots in cinema and TV. Because it would not be fair to exclude R2D2 and C3PO from Star Wars series, and Dalek from Dr. Who.

We would like to know about your favourite robot movies, please follow us on facebook and comment on this article.

So, let’s start with number 10

Bicentennial Man (1999)

10 - Bicentennial Man (1999)

This 1999 year made movie, is based on and named after one of the short stories written by Isaac Asimov, “Bicentennial Man”. Starring Robin Williams, this film is of course very amusing, yet touching.

In this movie, we see the life of a “man” trapped in a robots body, who seeks for an acceptence in the world of the mankind.

Real Steel (2011)

9 - Real Steel (2011)

This movie, is not just about technology, but also a great movie about friendship, family and love. CGI performance and characterisation of robots are both great. Our thoughts on this movie has changed after seeing it. I admit, i had some prejudgements, and this movie proved me wrong. Hugh Jackman performs very well, and Dakota Goyo, has done well as a child actor,

Robot boxing is very popular in the future. An ex-boxer is trying to struggle in this favourite sport with the help of his “junk” robot, while trying to bond with his son, whom he haasn’t seen in years.

Short Circuit (1986)

8 - Short Circuit (1986)

When i was a child, i felt very amazed after i first saw this movie. As a kid, it is not hard to be impressed, but this movie is more than a childs play. Director John Badham, known for “Saturday Night Fever” did a great job, and made us love robots.
A robot, known as “Number 5″, tries to escape from reproggramming, and gains self-awareness and consciousness.

Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

7 - Artificial Intelligence (2001)

This Steven Spielberg film, is one of the milestones in robotics. It asks the question about what a human is, and what is the difference between mankind and robots.
It is a touching movie which you may either like it or hate it. Some say this is a boring film, while other insist that AI is a classic.
Still, if you like the philosophy behind the robot concept, this movie is just for you.

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For speech recognition, specialties include vowel sounds, consonant sounds, grammar, syntax, context, and other variables. For example, a context specialty program might determine whether a speaker means to say “weigh” or “way,” or “two,” “too,” or “to.” Another program lets the controller know when a sentence is finished and the next sentence is to begin. Another program can tell the difference between a statement and a question. Using the blackboard as their forum, the specialty circuits “debate” the most likely and logical interpretations of what is heard or seen. A “referee” called a focus specialist mediates.

For object recognition, specialties might be shape, color, size, texture, height,width, depth, and other visual cues.How does a computer know if an object is a cup on a table, or a water tower a mile away? Is that a bright lamp, or is it the sun? Is that biped thing a robot, a mannequin, or a person? As with speech recognition, the blackboard serves as a debating ground.

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The Cubli is a 15 × 15 × 15 cm cube that can jump up and balance on its corner. Reaction wheels mounted on three faces of the cube rotate at high angular velocities and then brake suddenly, causing the Cubli to jump up. Once the Cubli has almost reached the corner stand up position, controlled motor torques are applied to make it balance on its corner. In addition to balancing, the motor torques can also be used to achieve a controlled fall such that the Cubli can be commanded to fall in any arbitrary direction. Combining these three abilities — jumping up, balancing, and controlled falling — the Cubli is able to ‘walk’.

Lead Researchers: Gajamohan Mohanarajah and Raffaello D’Andrea

This work was done at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and was funded in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), grant number 146717.

Resources

http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/Cubli

http://robohub.org/swiss-robots-cubli-a-cube-that-can-jump-up-balance-and-walk-across-your-desk/

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Qualifiers Group B in the Fighting Robot Association 2013 UK Featherweight Championship hosted by RoboChallenge at Gadget Show Live in the Birmingham NEC.
Featherweight Robots have a weight limit of 13.6kg and must be built to the current FRA build rules.
Competition judged in accordance with FRA Competition Regulations.

Resources

More information visit www.fightingrobots.co.uk

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Parts needed to build this one:

Ice cream/popsicle stick
Paper clips
Drinking straw
Gear motor
Terminal block
Bolts, nuts and locknuts
Wire
Double sided tape
Black electric tape (optional)

If there’s any confusion found in this tutorial, feel free to ask me.

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Music
“Rollin at 5 – electronic” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Resources

https://www.facebook.com/Homemade.Robots

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+galopante78/posts

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