Robots Archive

  • MDS – Mobile, Dexterous, Social

    MDS – Mobile, Dexterous, Social

    More material coming soon, in the meantime checkout http://robotic.media.mit.edu/projects/robots/mds/overview/overview.html

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  • MeBot – A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence

    MeBot – A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence

    The MeBot is a semi-autonomous robotic avatar that gives a person a richer way to interact remotely with an audience than is allowed with phone and video conferencing. The robot was designed with an emphasis on being able to convey the non-verbal channels of social communication. That is, it is able to communicate some body [...]

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  • MCB Mini – Motor control scheme

    MCB Mini – Motor control scheme

    A motor control scheme was developed to address the very specific needs and demands of the research robots that are developed and used by the Personal Robots group at the Media Lab. The development of robots that should have the ability to display rich expressiveness as well dexterity and movement in human-like ways requires an [...]

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  • Human centric Robot Navigation – voice control, simulation, real robots

    Human centric Robot Navigation – voice control, simulation, real robots

    This project aimed at providing human-centric control of mobile and expressive robots to ease human-robot collaboration. The robot was afforded the ability to understand locations in terms of their names (kitchen, hallway, bedroom etc.) and the locations of people in terms of the person’s name. The operator controls the robot using a simple overhead map [...]

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  • Walker – A quadruped robot

    Walker – A quadruped robot

    This was my final project for How To Make Almost Anything I wanted to build a simple robot that could walk around and explore its environment, furthermore I wanted to build as much of it as I could custom so the sonar sensor is custom made, the servo controller is custom made and the control [...]

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