Rabble of Robots

ROBOTS!!!

Videos!

There are a few videos here. Keep in mind that the videos of robots you see are usually the 5 minutes it worked out of months (or years) of build and debugging and hours of trials.

• “Tiny Robots” shows a small demonstration (sorry there’s a desk in the way) of a ‘swarm’ of small ground and aerial robots being controlled as a group
• “Autonomous boat driving around a lake” is fairly self-explanatory. The original plan had to be altered on the fly because there were immovable logs in the lake that the robot would not have been able to avoid. Of the 3+ hours we were at the lake, the robot probably drove around for ~10 minutes total.
• The final video provides a good, non-shiny view of a typical day of working with robots, what it looks like, and how poorly things work 95% of the time.

A few photos from around the lab…

This was a random humanoid that was sitting around the lab and marked as “not trash”.

This was a tiny robot I met that was driven by magnets! These robots were brought by a visiting researcher, Ryan St. Pierre.

To put the size in context, the picture above was actually very zoomed in. it’s inside the petri dish on the right. His brother (a robot with wings) is in the dish on the left.