“It can do nine kilometers in three hours on one charge. It is full-sealed, so you can use it in the swamp,” De added. “It uses components you can buy off the shelf,” in line with a keep-it-simple ethic cited by many of the Penn robot developers. It could be used for security in a remote environment, and routine patrol inspections.Robotics means business, and that business has often been war., now the son-in-law of Turkish strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Another Penn PhD student Gedaliah Knizhnik prepared a mini-quad-copter to land in a pool-sized water tank, where five floating mini-docks had assembled autonomously to receive it, aided by magnets. “These are very simple ‘bots,” he explained. “Manufacturers who develop a product for this application usually assume it has to go in any direction” and install multiple motors and complex controls.
“Event-Based Cameras” use LIDAR - Laser Detection and Ranging -- instead of traditional light accumulation on a lens, to instantly process extra information from a subject. “It’s a next-generation camera,” because it’s effectively composed of many tiny cameras, each the size of a pixel, that combine their data into a much sharper image, said Kumar, the dean, stopping his tour to watch the camera display.
“A lot of robots are inspired by nature,” said Kumar. “But the reality is, we don’t know much about nature,” so engineers are using robots to learn more, in a self-reinforcing cycle.At the CMOS group of researchers, the robots are as thin as a human hair; a handful are displayed resting in a copper U.S. penny, in Lincoln’s ear. “That’s about 300 microns across. These are dumb robots: no sensing,” says Lucas Hanson, a Penn Ph.D. student who helps to fabricate them.
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