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Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870) The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923.
Latest version of the robot was developed as a robotic platform for education and research purposes. Mona robot platform: R-One: light, IR, gyro, bump, accelerometer: wheel, 30 cm/s: 10 cm: 6 h: Rice University, USA [33] R-one [34] is a low-cost Robot for research and teaching purposes. It was used in several study on swarm robotics.
It is equipped with twin blasters and a deflector shield generator and can transform into its wheel form, allowing the droideka to roll towards the enemy at speeds of up to 75 km/h (47 mph). [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Commando droids are superior versions of the B1 battle droid, built sturdier with armor to withstand blaster fire and more advanced ...
Robot locomotion is the collective name for the various methods that robots use to transport themselves from place to place. Wheeled robots are typically quite energy efficient and simple to control. However, other forms of locomotion may be more appropriate for a number of reasons, for example traversing rough terrain, as well as moving and ...
The robot was used in a simulation for the Space Robotics Challenge. [8] In mid-2015, NASA announced plans to provide two R5 robots to research teams. The competition was won by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northeastern University, with each team receiving an R5 robot along with $500,000 in funding spread over two years.
Valkyrie, a humanoid robot, [1] from NASA. A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes. In general, humanoid robots have a torso, a head ...
Waldo, a short story by Robert Heinlein, that gave its name to a popular nickname for remote manipulators. Walking robot, a robot capable of locomotion by walking. Owing to the difficulties of balance, two-legged walking robots have so far been rare and most walking robots have used insect-like multilegged walking gaits.
For general traveling purposes the ATHLETE rolls on its six wheels but if it encounters more rugged and extreme terrain, it is able to lock each wheel into place and walk using its limbs. The first generation ATHLETE was developed in 2005 and consisted of 6, six-degree-of-freedom limbs mounted to the frame of the robot.