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How to Mount an External Removable Hard Drive on a Robot
We often want to add an external hard drive to our robots in order to have a dedicated drive for…
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Perception in Smoke, Dust or Fog
I recently had the fortune to attend a talk titled Multi-Modal Data for Perception in Smoke-Filled Underground Mines by Joe Bartels. It…
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Motor Control Systems – Bode Plot & Stability
What is a control system? A control system alters the future state of its system to a more desirable outcome.…
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LIDAR vs RADAR: A Detailed Comparison
Hi allI was recently asked about the differences between RADAR and LIDAR. I gave the generic answer about LIDAR having…
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CAN and CCP/XCP for Error Detection and Calibration
Kvaser reached out to me about writing a sponsored post to put on this site. I have used many Kvaser CAN…
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Lithium, Lithium-ion, LiPo & LiFePO4Battery Safety and Fire Handling
Lithium battery safety is an important issue as there are more and more reports of fires and explosions. Fires have…
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Underwater Photography and Videography
I had somebody ask me questions this week about underwater photography and videography with robots (well, now it is a…
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3Q: Aleksander Madry on building trustworthy artificial intelligence
Aleksander Madry is a leader in the emerging field of building guarantees into artificial intelligence, which has nearly become a…
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Drones and satellite imaging to make forest protection pay
Better tracking of forest data will make the climate change reporting process easier for countries who want compensation for protecting…
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Growing bio-inspired shapes with a 300-robot swarm
Artistic photo taken by Jerry H. Wright showing a hand-made shape generated following an emergent Turing pattern (displayed using the…
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Robocar year in review for 2018
In spite of what most are writing, it was a year of much progress. A number of other summaries of…
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How robots are helping doctors save lives in the Canadian North
It is the middle of the winter and a six-month-old child is brought with acute respiratory distress to a nursing…