a Venus flytrap can distinguish living preys from inanimate stimuli and close its leaves to capture preys. b The detailed structure of the robot with labels. c The simplified circuit diagram of the robot. Two touch sensors located on the leaves perceive external information and send that informati...
to identify his sidekick who was ahead. Its computer system could then combine this information with behavioral indices. Rather than having programmed the robot leader to send signals directly saying we should follow, the research team sent “behavioral cues” to the second robot via a wireless ...
JPL has developed sophisticated software for all the Mars rovers we’ve sent that lets us maintain control here on Earth. Yet we also write software that allows the rovers to drive on the Martian surface as independently as possible, place instruments on the surface, and use their cameras and...
A good friend of mine sent me this link to an article about robotics and wrote, "I’m sure this article is common knowledge to you...” Sadly, this is common knowledge to me because it reminds me of how little progress has been made in the robot part of robotics over the thirty yea...
We set the scene on the train table. Lily had each of the aliens go to their homes. Elon sent the HEXBUG nano Junior chasing after them. Lily talked through the story and had the aliens run away. Elon had fun watching the HEXBUG robots bump into everything and push the aliens around....
The backhoe is equipped with a suite of technologies to help it work on its own at the moon, which is located about 2 seconds' radio distance away from Earth. In other words, any command sent from Earth would take about 2 seconds to arrive at the moon's surface. (The averagedistance ...
This was shown when Poppy sent Bennie and Jet to frighten Charles one of Poppy's underlings in a successful attempt to incite Angel (a new recruit) into killing Charles by sending him into a grinder, much to Poppy's delight. Poppy then uses Charles' meat to create a "Poppy Burger" and...