Leap Motion V2 Tracking
From Leap Motion's developer blog :
V2 retains the speed and positional accuracy found in V1, but the software also now tracks the actual joints and bones inside each of the user’s fingers. This leads to some immediate benefits over V1:
Finger and hand labels – every finger, hand, and joint now has anatomical labels like ‘pinky’, ‘left hand’, and ‘proximal phalanges’
Occlusion robustness – fingers are tracked even when they’re not seen by the controller, as might happen if you turned your hands completely vertically or intertwined the fingers of your left and right hands
Massively improved resistance to ambient infrared light – sunlight, powerful halogens, etc.
Much more granular data for developers about the user’s hands and fingers – 27 dimensions per hand, in addition to special parameters like grab/pinch APIs
VoCore: A Coin-sized Linux Computer With Wifi
VoCore Indiegogo Campaign:
VoCore is a coin-sized Linux computer with wifi. It is also able to work as a full functional router. It runs OpenWrt on top of Linux. It contains 32MB SDRAM, 8MB SPI Flash and using RT5350(360MHz MIPS) as its heart. It provides many interfaces such as 10/100M Ethernet, USB, UART, I2C, I2S, PCM, JTAG and over 20 GPIOs but its size is less than one square inch... ( $20 USD for single unit )
Printed Hand With An Opposable Thumb
From Chiprobot on Let's Make Robots :
DARwIn-mini
Available now at Maker Shed for $499 :
If you haven't checked out the amazing capabilities of the DARwIn-OP Deluxe Edition , you should! DARwIn-Mini is the younger, but no less amazing, sibling of this award winning robot. DARwIn-Mini is Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence from Korea-based ROBOTIS kits, famed for their transformability and stunning humanoid designs.
Custom controller based on the 32-bit ARM Cortex M3
3D files of the robot’s parts at Thingverse
3D Video Capture With Three Kinects
From Doc-Ok.org:
Video from a capture space consisting of one Oculus Rift head-mounted display and three Kinect 3D cameras set up in an equilateral triangle, with each Kinect approximately 2m from the center point. The resulting 3D video data is merged with a virtual 3D model of an office environment... (cont'd)
Parrot Bebop
From Parrot's official announcement today:
Today, after 5 years of development, we are excited to introduce you Parrot Bebop Drone, a ultra-light drone with a full HD camera digitally stabilized on its 3-axis.
Chris Anderson's and DIYDrones first look
IEEE Spectrum coverage
Press release pdf
Open Source Firmware for RC Radio Transmitters
From OpenTX:
OpenTX is open source firmware for RC radio transmitters. The firmware is highly configurable and brings much more features than found in traditional radios... ( cont'd )
Thumbles: Robotic Tabletop User Interface Platform
From Pattenstudio :
Thumbles is an interactive tabletop system based on a group of tiny robots that users can grasp and manipulate. Each robot can represent anything from character in a video game to a molecule in a scientific visualization. The system combines the versatility of a graphical interface with the tactile advantages of physical controls.
Robot Orders a Scone in Mountain View, California
Using the Anybot QB Avatar to order a scone from Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, CA.
Golang Powered Robotics
From Gobot's homepage:
Gobot is a framework and set of libraries in the Go programming language for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things... ( cont'd )
UBR-1 Available for Purchase
From Unbounded Robotics:
Beginning today, UBR-1 is available for purchase. To order your own state-of-the-art mobile manipulation platform please contact sales@unboundedrobotics.com.
The majority of requests we have had to date have been for the UBR-1 pro model, so we have decided to focus on and ship only one model. The cost of the UBR-1 is $50,000 and will include the newest Hokuyo UST-20LX scanning laser. UBR-1 now offers a higher maximum speed, a state of the art laser scanner, more RAM, and a larger hard drive capacity. In addition to the UBR-1 we are happy to announce that we will also be offering a ROS Ready Computer Package to make setting up your robot even easier. This package includes a computer with Ubuntu and ROS pre-installed, and a wireless router pre-configured to connect your robot and computer.
We are planning to start shipping robots to their destinations in late August... ( cont'd )
Magnetically Actuated Micro-robots For Micro-Factories
From SRI International:
SRI is developing new technology to reliably control thousands of micro-robots for smart manufacturing of macro-scale products in compact, integrated systems... ( cont'd )
MorpHex
From Kåre Halvorsen project on the Lynxmotion forums:
Sphere shaped hexapod that I plan to give the following features:
Roll freely like a ball
Have different sort of locomotion for moving in any direction
Variable inner-body dimensions
Transform from a sphere shape into a hexapod and vice versa
Walk like a hexapod
Project's summary on Robotee and original forum thread.
New Computer Vision Project Can Solve reCAPTCHAs With Over 99% Accuracy
From Google Online Security Blog:
Translating a street address to an exact location on a map is harder than it seems. To take on this challenge and make Google Maps even more useful, we’ve been working on a new system to help locate addresses even more accurately, using some of the technology from the Street View and reCAPTCHA teams.
This technology finds and reads street numbers in Street View, and correlates those numbers with existing addresses to pinpoint their exact location on Google Maps.
We show that this system is able to accurately detect and read difficult numbers in Street View with 90% accuracy.
Turns out that this new algorithm can also be used to read CAPTCHA puzzles—we found that it can decipher the hardest distorted text puzzles from reCAPTCHA with over 99% accuracy... ( cont'd ) ( full technical paper )
A World Of Hardware Startups
Upverter has a hardware startup master list and world map. Currently contains around 150 robotics companies, 500+ consumer hardware startups and a list of incubators, venture firms and everything else... ( cont'd )
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