In the previous blog posts for this 'series' "It is a good time...." Post 1 looked at the hardware unpinning some of this positive rise in robots; Post 2 looked at social robots; Post 3 looked at a collection of small robots; This post contin ues with small robot idea a bit more, looking at some of the other robots I have been fortunate to be able to play with. The opinions are from a personal point of view of playing with them, but comments are very welcome. Kbots The kilobots ( http://www.k-team.com/mobile-robotics-products/kilobot )were designed to be relatively low-cost devices specifically designed for work on swarm/collective intelligence experiments. Developed at Harvard University as a scalable system to program groups of robots (now into the thousands) ( http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/progSA/kilobot.html ). Individually these are quite simple units, they move by vibration. The real advantage, in my opinion, of the system though i...
Robots and getting computers to work with the physical world is fun; this blog looks at my own personal experimenting and building in this area.