Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Watch This Robot Infiltrate An Office, Go Under Doors, And Gain Full Access To Locked Resources...
This movie shows some unique feature of STAR (Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot). The biomimetic robot is 3D printed and controls its sprawl angle control which allows him to perform many maneuvers to overcome obstacles. In the movie the robot sprawls down and goes under a door then sprawls up.
It can run at all speeds up to 5.2m/s (43 body lengths per second) on smooth surfaces while steering is on (i.e. it can be controlled to run in straight line or turn). The legs slide to the side in order to reduce collisions with the ground which allow for better stability and steering control.
The robot was designed by David Zarrouk, Andrew Pullin, Nick Kohut and Ronald Fearing at the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, UC Berkeley. (Reference: ICRA 2013)
This is the third version of our robot, we made some mechanical improvements. We added fiber reinforced rods to reduce collision damage at high speeds.
It can run at all speeds up to 5.2m/s (43 body lengths per second) on smooth surfaces while steering is on (i.e. it can be controlled to run in straight line or turn). The legs slide to the side in order to reduce collisions with the ground which allow for better stability and steering control.
The robot was designed by David Zarrouk, Andrew Pullin, Nick Kohut and Ronald Fearing at the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, UC Berkeley. (Reference: ICRA 2013)
This is the third version of our robot, we made some mechanical improvements. We added fiber reinforced rods to reduce collision damage at high speeds.
My Slow Internet And How I Solved My Problem
My Internet got slower precisely when Comcast claimed that they had just upped the speed. Sometimes rebooting my wireless router and comcast modem seemed to help, sometimes it did not. So I did a speed test and got this:
Ridiculously slow right? I was not sure if it was Comcast and I also suspected my wireless router which is supposed to be one of the faster ones (wireless N). I logged into my wireless router and did a check to see if I had the latest firmware update and saw that there was a newer one available, so after a bit of an effort trying to find the update, as the update site was no longer available, I backed up my router configuration, downloaded the firmware update and then installed it, and did a speed test:
WoW! I am rocking the Youtube now baby! Talk you you all later, I am off to the internets in super speed!
Monday, August 12, 2013
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