Mouser Electronics announced a global distribution agreement with DFRobot, a leading robotics and open source hardware provider. The agreement brings DFRobot’s robotics and maker-focused products to Mouser’s growing open source lineup. The DFRobot product line available from Mouser Electronics focuses on the Gravity Series plug-and-play toolkit and the LattePanda single-board computer. The open source Gravity…
The Cheap Arm Project (CHAP) began as an MSc project aimed at developing an affordable mobile robot arm system that could be used by wheelchair users to access daily objects at inaccessible heights or weights (the extreme case being 2 litre bottle). It’s a low-cost, open source, 2 meter tall robot buildable for under £2000. Now…
Thanks to a vibrant investment scene, and major government support, Korea is growing really fast. There’s been a massive startup upswing, but only about 10 percent are currently looking at markets outside Korea. Circulus, with its Pibo, is one of this 10 percent. “I think that if everyone could make their own programs in Korea,…
A new 6 axis robotic arm has been created by the development team at Niryo based in Lille, France, which is both open source and can be powered by Arduino, Raspberry Pi and ROS. With 6 axis, you can draw on a vertical board, or any non horizontal surface. “Our goal is to make robotics accessible…
The BeagleBone Blue from BeagleBoard.org is a credit-card sized board with all the components needed to operate a robot or even a drone. It is open source, as its schematics have been published, and developers can replicate the board. It has the components and software package needed to build medium-sized or small robots. It includes servo motors, electronic speed…
The Robot Core is produced by Second Robotics and serves as an essential connecting piece between the often numerous motors and sensors of a robot and the main controller. Additionally, the Robot Core is designed to be compatible with the Arduino open source platform as well as Raspberry Pi systems. This compatibility allows both veteran…
Mime Industries is running a crowdfunding campaign for MeArm Pi, a robotic arm powered by Raspberry Pi. The kit includes a Pi HAT that holds the joysticks for controlling the arm, and can also be controlled using Scratch, Blockly, Python or Javascript. Mime has also built an app using Node.js, making the arm controllable via a web…
We all use robots, or robot-made products, on a daily basis. Robots build our cars and clean our houses, but today we also enjoy these: AI applications automate financial, travel, legal processes; e-discoverysoftware, used in law firms, has replaced the document analysis and scanning formerly performed by paralegals; robot-advisers, such as Wealthfront and Betterment, take…
You can be the best soccer-player by consolle, but have you ever tried to be the best with a soccer-playing robot? Petrunia Tech engineers are doing their best to develop a robot that plays soccer: Wisoccero. The robots have omnidirectional wheels that allow them to move intuitively, and a mechanism that lets the robot…
A Microsoft researchers team have built and open sourced a simulation tool to help people train autonomous cars, drones and robots learn how to avoid obstacles just like they would in the real world. It’s called the Aerial Informatics and Robotics Platform, or AirSim for short. Available for Linux and Windows, it lets you generate a random environment…
How many people have the original Game Boy yet, in a drawer somewhere? I’m one of them, I still have my perfectly good and unused Game Boy. Someone else decided to give a new life to his Nintendo by turning it to a remote drone controller. Piloting unmanned aircraft with a Game Boy is not…
We admire the wonderful Super Bowl show recently … with the sky strangely illuminated. Intel was the maker! Drones are a good market because they use a lot of technology, including Intel’s RealSense depth cameras, and they produce an enormous amount of data. It’s all part of a virtuous cycle, according to Anil Nanduri, vice…
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