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New 3D printed grippers for Mini Maxwell.

I designed a little brother for Maxwell.

I recorded a small video of Maxwell navigating, under voice control.

Maxwell journeys across the country to visit the Stanford Robot Block Party.

I spent Monday and Tuesday at the IEEE Technologies for Practical Robotics Applications (TePRA)

National Robotics Week, Day 2

Highlights of my trip to the Trinity Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest.

A preview of the upcoming week that is National Robotics Week.

A look at the perception side of the AAAI Small Scale Manipulation Challenge.

Earlier today we got Maxwell moving chess pieces around a bit.

I rebuilt Maxwell's base using a new design which allows the front plate to drop down for easy access to the ArbotiX2 prototype.

I added a big red panic button to Maxwell.

A look at how laser scanners and Kinects interact with our surroundngs.

This afternoon I collected a very nice dataset and map of our lab at ILS.

And now a video of Maxwell driving around.

Maxwell is my latest attempt at a lowcost, human-scale mobile manipulator using an ArbotiX and ROS.

My entry to the ROS 3D contest, and a new robot to test it.

How to build a map with gmapping and a 360 degree laser.

CoreSLAM is finally working.

More progress on CoreSLAM in ROS.

I've been developing a SLAM dataset.

A look at alternative SLAM implementations.

It's alive!

My initial work on a ROS driver for the Neato XV-11 robot is successful.

Building maps with a small robot, Hokuyo laser and ROS.

I've been working on a poor man's lidar for ROS navigation.

Another solid day of printing robot parts on the Makerbot.

Issy3 has a new foot 3d-printed foot design with integrated tactile feedback.

Let's recap Robogames 2010

If you're looking to build a giant robot, here is your tool

The saga of creating a 3d-printed head for SMALdog

Over the past month, Vanadium has released two new products, and has another on the way.

The Nearly Universal Kinematics Engine (NUKE) is finally out in a first beta.

The Nearly Universal Kinematics Engine is nearly released.

Issy didn't fare so well in the Fire Fighting competition

Check out the video of Issy fighting fires

Video of Sally, a salamander-inspired robot.

More SES-based assemblies for Bioloid/Dynamixel.

I've been working on assembling a Biped for mech warfare for a little while now.

Where to Buy Stuff, Part Two

While the hardware of the arbotiX has been stable and ready to go for months, we've still been working to expand and refine the software suite.

It's finally here!

I've been talking lately about building a walking fire fighter, but I've now finally started transforming Issy from a mech into a Fire Fighter

Socket head cap screws are an awesome upgrade for your bioloid kit, here's where to get them.

How to install nuts in Dynamixel servos

The first full batch of arbotiX prototypes is finally done after a summer of development and testing.

Robogames 2009 is now over.

Recap from 2009 Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Contest.

Trinity is just 6 days away.

There's always gonna be some setbacks... such as the robot falls over when it comes to a stop.