Robot Magazine - January/February 2011 Contents

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6 UPDATE
- by Tom Atwood

8 NAME THAT BOT!

10 ROBOT FEED
Readers’ letters

12 LERN
Leading Edge Robotics News
-Tom Atwood

34 SNAPSHOT
Swimming Your Way ...

86 PLUG & PLAY
Product news

90 FUTURE BYTES
Warfighter Robot Upgrade
—by Tom Atwood



 

features

22 HOLIDAY BOT GUIDE!

26 THE MEANING OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE?
More Docs, More Data
—by Kevin M. Berry

30 NASA’S NEW SPACE POLICY
The “space bus” infrastructure becomes more sharply defined
—by Jim Oberg

36 ROBOT EXCLUSIVE! THESE ARE THE DROIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR…
Life-size humanoid uses the Android

40 REMOTE CONTROLLED VEX NERF MACHINE GUN
Ready, aim, fire!
—by Ray Xu

42 AUVSI NORTH AMERICA 2010
Unmanned Systems Land in Denver
—by George Mitsuoka

46 THE CRUSTCRAWLER NOMAD HD ROVER PART 2
Exploring emergent behavior
—by Steve Norris

54 ROBOTS OF CHINA
Robot Magazine brings you an exclusive look at Chinese Robotics
—by Humanoido

70 PARROT AR DRONE RTF
Quadrotor for new and advanced pilots/research organizations
—by Josh Gray

76 MECH WARFARE 2010
Second Annual battle of the mechs a real blast
—by Andrew Alter

50 DIY LOW BUCK 3D STEREO-VISION
A hands-on, step by step how-to for affordable 3D now
—by Albert Tejera

 

edu bots

60 ROBOFEST 2010
Little robots perform big missions for STEM
—by CJ Chung

66 DF ROBOTSHOP ROVER ROBOT
Arduino-complete, affordable and expandable
—by Dick Swan

74 GRASSROOTS ROBOTICS AFFORDABLE ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS ON THE RISE
Resources open up to provide easy access
—by Tom Atwood

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