Active Robotics Laboratory
Advanced Robotics, Networked Systems and Embedded Devices
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The Active Robotics Laboratory (ARL) carries out advanced research in robot systems. Current areas of research includes space robotics, networked robotics, human-robot interaction & telerobotics, and online robot systems. We also have a special interest in robotics education. The ARL contact details are below for further information click on read more. Gerard McKee Mercury Flyby 2On October 6, 2008, the MESSENGER spacecraft passed a mere 200 kilometers (124 miles) above Mercury's surface for the mission's second flyby of its target planet. The flyby¹s primary purpose was to use Mercury for a gravity assist, a crucial encounter needed to enable MESSENGER, in 2011, to become the first spacecraft ever to enter into an orbit around Mercury. Though the gravity assist was the top priority for the flyby, MESSENGER's second flyby of Mercury also provided an opportunity to make significant and exciting science observations and measurements. Models of eel cells suggest electrifying possibilitiesSecret Sub Project for Steve FossettHawkes created a heavy-duty vehicle capable of withstanding the tremendous pressures of the Mariana Trench, 36,000 feet below the surface. "The pressure is about 20,000 pounds per square inch, approximately 15,000 times the atmospheric pressure," Hawkes said. "If you look at conventional technologies, the best and strongest materials such as titanium will only get you about halfway down to the ocean floor. We used carbon fiber that's laid down filament by filament under computer control, the same as what's used on rocket motor nozzles." Open Source UFO's
Not a post on robotics I know, but on the off chance that one of these UFO's might turn out to be a very cool autonomous robot you heard it here first =)) The UK is making decades worth of classified files relating to UFOs freely available to the public. Click Here For UK UFOs . This follows France's opening of its UFO files which can be found Click Here For French UFOs. Query on Arterie Clearing RobotDear Richard Bridgman, Thanks for your post, I did not get an email address for you so I though I should reply via the blog. My email address is r.mcelligott@reading.ac.uk if you wish to contact me directly. Our research is related to robotics and hence, most of the posts on this site are in some way involved with robotics. The post you were looking at in perticular is research not done by us but I did take a look a look around the topic a little further and have a list of links that might be interest. The research on that perticular arterie clearing robot is being conducted by researchers at Chonnam National University in Korea, and from what i have read it has been tested (limited) and can travel 55 yards in a week inside the body. The link to Chonnam National University [click here] . The source for this information is the Telegraph and New Scientist.
Some other articles on related topics are listed below: All the best, Richard McElligott ExoskeletonRobots in the Bulletin
Spin off work from the research into LabANT (the biologically inspired hexapod) has lead to both a mention in the Universities fortnightly bulletin and an award of £65000 ‘Proof of concept fund’. The funding from CommercialiSE (the University’s link to the business community in the south east) aims to further develop and prototype the novel suspension system, where several application areas have already been identified. The bulletin can be found here in pdf format. If this development is of further interest to you please contact the Active Robotics Laboratory via the contact us page found here.
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