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...expected that Diller and Scofidio, well known as skeptics about the whole idea of museums, would end up designing one? When New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art gave them a big retrospective three years ago, they underlined their ambivalence about becoming insiders by having a little robot programmed to roll around for the duration of the show drilling holes in the gallery walls...
...Saturday in Science Center B, Joshua A. Kroll ’09 spoke about designing a computer program for an underwater robot that could recognize species...
...starter kit, the NXT box I cracked open was packed with some pretty high-tech gadgetry. For $250, you get 577 pieces, including sensors that can detect sound, light, touch and obstacles (using ultrasound). You can even control it wirelessly with Bluetooth technology. Most robots are fun for a day or two. Lego offers a more lasting thrill; you can build a robot of your own design, play with it for a while, then pull it apart and build something else...
...good. But when I loaded the software and started adding sensors and claws, things got dicey. And when I started programming, things got downright horrific. After several hours of frustration, I began to discover the rudiments of how to use virtual blocks of instruction to get the robot to move, respond to a clap, back up when it hit a wall. I finally got my little monster to pirouette, wave its lobster claws and shout "Lego...
...team’s discoveries are already proving useful in robotics. According to Biewener, Boston Dynamics, a company that works on human simulation, will use the findings in its push to create a legged robot...