Knuth: Developing Robotic Scientists for Space Exploration
October 21, 2008 Articles, Intelligent Systems, News No CommentsThe University at Albany (SUNY) has highlighted Knuth’s research in a recent news piece.
UAlbany Professor Kevin Knuth with a robot built from LEGOs. (Photo Mark Schmidt)
Kevin Knuth has a laboratory in the physics department of the University at Albany that is filled with LEGOs. The bricks are relatively cheap and can be used to rapidly prototype a robot’s body. Knuth’s robots are being programmed to solve such problems as mapping complex terrain.
At UAlbany Day on Saturday, Oct. 25, he will give a demonstration on Robotics and Robotic Exploration in Life Sciences Room 143 at 10:45 a.m.
More here:
http://www.albany.edu/news/update_4522.shtml
Building instructions for the robot shown in the UAlbany article can be found on Brickengineer.com
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