Robotics Blog » navigation http://roboticsblog.org Robot and Electronics News Weblog Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:10:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 MIT Demos Autonomous, Navigating Robotic Helicopter – With Video! http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/mit-demos-autonomous-navigating-robotic-helicopter-with-video/ http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/mit-demos-autonomous-navigating-robotic-helicopter-with-video/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:16:17 +0000 Dan http://roboticsblog.org/?p=968 MIT’s RANGE, “Robust Aerial Navigation in GPS-denied Environments” Quad-Rotor Helicopter was the first to complete the fifth mission of the IARC aerial robotics competition.

It features a small laser scanner as well as a color camera and other sensors.

Watch it fly below.

]]> http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/mit-demos-autonomous-navigating-robotic-helicopter-with-video/feed/ 0 Garbage Robot, ‘Dustbot’, Will Take Your Trash Away http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-images/garbage-robot-dustbot-will-take-your-trash-away/ http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-images/garbage-robot-dustbot-will-take-your-trash-away/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 21:00:09 +0000 Dan http://roboticsblog.org/?p=672 This unique Italian grown robot has no problem taking out the trash. “Dustbot,” as the trash bot is called, provides a garbage disposal solution for older cities built with narrow streets that modern garbage trucks cannot navigate. The user calls a Dustbot over a telephone when they have trash. The robot navigates to the person’s location using GPS, where the user then places their garbage in the robot’s slide-out garbage bin.

Solving the problems of trash disposal in cities with narrow streets….
[Dustbot Project Presentation PDF]
[found at Botropolis]

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