Knuth: Developing Robotic Scientists for Space Exploration

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:40:41 +0000

The 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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I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:53:27 +0000

This month’s issue of IEEE Spectrum Online has an interesting article by Rodney Brooks on the future of artificial intelligence titled “I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot“.

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