Featured Projects & Ideas

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Hello there. I just had this idea, and I thought someone in the domestic robots community might enjoy hearing it.

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Welcome

This is not really an idea, but a welcome. The takemetoyourrobot site is now public, all thanks to David Holstius of the CREATE lab. We hope you enjoy the site. Please sign up, and consider posting an idea or two as well as a project, if you have something you'd love to share.

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Robot to Exercise Your Dog

The Robots Feed Your Dog idea is similar in nature to an idea we want for our dog. Instead of just giving her food, it would make her exercise during the day so that she won't be so hyper when we come home.

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Featured How-Tos & Activities

How To Get Started in Robotics

A lot of people have asked us how they can get started in robotics. This how to guide offers some suggestions and links to various resources for beginners.

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Artificial Intelligence Robot - Version 1

This program has the iRobot guess the animal you are thinking of by asking you questions. If it doesn't know the animal, then it will ask you to name it and then provide a question to distinquish it from another animal that the robot already knows. That animal is then added to the list of animals the program knows. A tree structure based on the attached Node class allows the names and questions to be stored in the tree. The program, when run, initially asks the question, “Is the animal bigger than a human?” and it only knows two animals … a dog (smaller) and a bear (bigger). I have a file version of the program where the contents of the tree are retrieved and rewritten to a text file. Once I get Version 2 working I will post that version. This program was originally written for Java 1.4 (note use of a ConsoleReader class) but will compile and run with Java 1.5. You will want to have students write portions of the code in the driver (Animal1.java) or the Node class. If you update the program to Java 1.5 then you won't need the ConsoleReader class.

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Square Feet

In this assignment your robot will automatically calculate the size of a room. The robot will measure the wall lengths of a rectangular room, then calculate the square feet.

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Robot 250 videos

I just shot some videos of a few of the robot 250 sites around town. Learn more at: robot250.org

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