Interesting info on Robotics:
Many of us are interested in the Robotics field. You can find some of the worlds interesting robots details below:
Humanoids and bipeds:
Honda's Asimo: The most advanced humanoid robot in the world. You can find interesting info about the various applications and pictures of this robot.
Toyota's Humanoid: Toyota's partner robots to have human characteristics, such as being agile, warm and kind and also intelligent enough to skillfully operate a variety of devices in the areas of personal assistance, care for the elderly, manufacturing, and mobility.
Alexander Vogler's Biped: A wonderful biped robot with 6 degrees of freedom per leg. Go through the pictures and video's in the site.
Multi-wheeled vehicles:
Makro: A robot developed to inspect sewers and rain pipes. Uses lasers to find its way. You can find lots of pictures and video's.
Varia:
Dave Barne's Personal Home Page: Generic description of different robots can be found here.
Beagle 2: End of 2003, this robot is to land on Mars. This site has generic info, and few image/video's.
Kar Williams Robotics And Electronics Devices Page: Small robots info can be found in this site. Few pictures and movies are present.
Commercial Sites:
Lynxmotion: Sells robot kits for four and six legged walkers, robot arms with 5 degrees of freedom, motor chasis for 2, 4 or 6 wheels, electronics kits. You can find lots of pictures and video clips on this site.
Parallax: Can find different robot kits: bipeds, 6-legged walker, 2-wheel chasis, etc. Full assembly instructions and software code available.
RobotBooks: Good site to get info about robot books, kid's robot kits, etc. Also has links to many robot pages.
JCM inVentures: Toy robots (CYBUG series) can be found here. Also can find pictures and video's.
Linnks and References:
Dmoz Computers/Robotics: Lots of links and references about robots, artificail intelligence, software, robot projects, etc.