Robotics Trends: 9-15 April 2012

As for last week the main topic this week is humanoid robots. The DARPA did reveal that PETMAN from Boston Dynamics will be the platform for the 8 teams that will participate to the software league of the humanoid challenge. Speaking of PETMAN, it can now climb stairs as shown in our selection of videos below. Awesome!

Videos of the Week

News of the Week

DARPA(5) Robotics Challenge(4) Humanoid Robots(3) Events(3) Programming(2) ROS(2) Stanford(2) National Robotics Week(1) Robogames(1) RobotC(1) Arduinio(1)

DARPA

DARPA(5) Robotics Challenge(4) Humanoid Robots(3) Manipulation(3) Robotics Software(2) Robotics Competition(2) PETMAN(2) Gill Pratt(2) Boston Dynamics(2) Open Source Robotics(1) Robotics Simulation(1) Hardware(1) Atlas(1)

DARPA Selects Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid for Robotics Challenge (UPDATED) – IEEE Spectrum : Robotics – 12 April 2012
DARPA Robotics Challenge 2012 – Robotland – 11 April 2012
DARPA Robotics Challenge: Q&A With Gill Pratt – IEEE Spectrum : Robotics – 11 April 2012
Catching up with Robots (April 10th, 2012) – Robots.net – 10 April 2012
DARPA Robotics Challenge: Here Are the Official Details – IEEE Spectrum : Robotics – 10 April 2012

Events

Events(3) Stanford(2) National Robotics Week(1) Robogames(1) Willow Garage(1) Autofuss(1) Sri(1) Nrw 2012(1) Taurus(1) Kickstarter(1)

Stanford Robot Block Party Has PR2s, SPHERES, More (Photos) – IEEE Spectrum : Robotics – 13 April 2012
Robotics and the Law: The New “We Robot” Conference – Hizook – 11 April 2012
Can’t Make It to RoboGames? Help Fund This Documentary – IEEE Spectrum : Robotics – 10 April 2012

Programming

RobotC(1) Arduino (1) NXT(1) Drivers(1) Software(1) NXT 2.0(1)

RobotC driver suite tutorial – The NXT Step – 12 April 2012
Arduino 5 Minute Tutorials: Lesson 1 – Software – RobotShop – 11 April 2012

ROS

ROS(2) PR2(1) Slam(1) RosCon(2)

ROS: The Linux for Robotics – NooTriX – 12 April 2012
ROS news: ROS Fuerte Beta 2 Released – Planet ROS – 11 April 2012

Misc

Arduino(1) Tank(1) Microcontrollers(1) Cloud Robotics(1) Telepresence(1) DIY(1) Toys(1) Roboctopus(1) NXT(1) Biorobotics(1) Octopus(1) Cellbots(1) Ologic(1) Octopus Project(1) NXT 2.0(1) Recycle(1) Oddwerx(1) Sensor(1)