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Welcome to the special edition of Weekly Robotics in which we cover what we think are the most important news and projects of 2018. We hope that you’ll enjoy this...
1) Drone X Challenge 2020. Kryptolabs INFO: Kryptolabs is organizing a $1.5M drone challenge aimed at boosting drone related R&D and innovation. The challenge two main categories are Fixed Wing...
1) DroneClash 2019 team registration is open. DroneClash INFO: DroneClash is an drone competition where the teams have to take out other team’s drones. The team registration will be open...
1) Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters. https://youtu.be/4X9ORR-z_tY INFO: Disney Research has created a technique for producing kinetic wire characters using CNC bending machines. Researchers introduce spring-like templates...
1) Point Cloud Library (PCL) data repositories. http://pointclouds.org/media/ INFO: PCL is an open source project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing. In the Community Data Repository section at the...
1) Ion Drive Drone. https://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ion-drive-drone-no-moving-parts INFO: MIT researchers are experimenting with a drone powered by ionic wind (airflow induced by electrostatic forces). According to the video in the above blog...
1) Fast line-following robots part 1: control. https://www.a1k0n.net/2018/11/13/fast-line-following.html INFO: In this blog post Andy Sloane goes over evolution of his line following robot for DIYRobocars meetup in SF. The article...