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Welcome to Robots, your source for information, news, and links to other sites involved with robots.   More content will be added when time permits.

Do you do robotics projects as a hobby? Building a robot to take over the world? It doesn't matter! e-mail your project, any articles, pictures, or any other tips, questions, anything you may have. It will be posted on this page. Thanks!

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wpe6.jpg (960 bytes)Clubs And Societies

Computers, Robotics, And Artist's Society of Houston -  non-profit organization whose goal is to develop and distribute software, media, and learning environments.

wpe6.jpg (960 bytes)Online Magazines

KrisTech Robot Magazine - a robotics magazine with editorials, articles, and lots of interesting information.

wpe6.jpg (960 bytes)Competitions

The Robotwars website - a popular contest where robots battle it out to survive.

RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative - the homepage for the yearly   Robot World Cup soccer games.

The Firefighting Home Robot Contest - sponsored by Trinity College, this is a contest where a robot must locate and put out an indoor fire.

wpe6.jpg (960 bytes)Robotics At Universities

Mobile Robots Group - a loose collection of staff and students who share a broad approach to artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.

The Robotics Institute - a part of Carnegie Mellon University, find out about their research and programs, and see what's new at CMU.

The Artificial Intelligence Labratory - a part of the Massachusetts Institiute of Technology, this site has plenty of information, such as their current research and articles.

California Institute of Technology - learn what projects the people at Caltech are working on, see pictures of some of the robots, and more.

wpe6.jpg (960 bytes)Where To Purchase Kits And Parts

The Robot Store - kits for beginners and plenty of parts and kits for the advanced robot builder. 

Arrick Robotics - a place to order robotics equipment such as computer based motion control, robot platforms, and more.

Solarbotics - a great place to order BEAM robots.

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The Process Of Creating A Robot

1] Visions or Dreams - Every robot starts as a gleam in the eye of its creator, a dream in search of a willing collaborator to help with its realization.

2] Hardware - This includes forming and assembling plastic, metal, nuts, bolts, levers and gears that make up the machine’s body.

3] Electronics - Depending on the robot, the creator needs to know a little, or a lot, about power, batteries, electronic components, soldering and how they all go together.

4] Logic - Whether done with software or with relays and wires, it lets the hardware and electronics react to the world as envisioned.

 

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Cool Robot of The Week - from the NASA Space Telerobotics Program

The Mars Pathfinder Mission website - find out the latest about the mission

 

 

 

 

 

Robot Fact

The earliest of all robots may have been mechanisms powered by steam that were employed by priests in ancient Egypt to open up massive temple doors, instilling awe and reverence in the watching congregation. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robot Fact

The term robot originates from the Czech word robota, meaning "compulsory labor." It was first used in the 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by the Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek.