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Maxwell, A Mobile Manipulator

Navigation, object manipulation, other mobile manipulation research tasks.
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Maxwell is my latest attempt at a lowcost, human-scale mobile manipulator using an ArbotiX and ROS. The design guidelines were pretty straight forward: it needed … Read more
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Component

MINI Robocontroller

Price: $59.99 USD

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MINI Robocontroller The MINI robocontroller is designed for small robots. It incorporates a powerful AVR microcontroller, XBEE wireless radio, dual motor … Read more
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Robot

Issy

Walks around, wirelessly controlled, and shoots at things. Won Mechwars 2009
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Thought I would post about my latest robot: Issy (short for IssyDunnYet). I started actually making this robot run around about 3 weeks ago, and amazingly, it's … Read more
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Robot – work in progress

Issy Goes Fire Fighting

Fire Fighting Robot
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I've built several fire-fighting robots, and several walkers, but this is my first walking fire-fighting robot. Issy will compete in the Canadian National Robot … Read more
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Forum topic

Anyone ordered from Cascabots?

By mikef

November 12, 2008

Anybot out there ordered recently from cascabots? I placed an order 30 days ago and still have not recieved the order, or any response to my several emails to them. Has anybody out there suffered the same?

-Fergs

Robot – work in progress

Multipurpose Robot: XRB3

Mapping, very low-level vision things
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XRB3 is powered by an AVR ATMEGA324P micro controller on a custom board that I made. Although he is fully autonomous, he is using an XBEE module to communicate with … Read more
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