Robot did not jump from the stratosphere. However, no one expected this from him. It was a robot tourist. In his footsteps will go the people who want to engage in space tourism. Sent a robot in flight zero2infinity, a private company developing technologies to enable cost-efficient access to near-space with zero-environmental impact (unlike rocket tourism) flying solutions. Humanoid robot Nao from Aldebaran Robotics helps Spanish company to make future flights safer.
In 2014, the company wants to sell tours to space people. What will do the people at the altitude of 32 kilometers?
"Some people will want to tweet," said Jose Mariano Lopez-Urdiales, founder and CEO of Zero 2 Infinity.
"Some will want to put down a carpet and pray to mecca. Some people will want to eat their favorite buffalo wings while they're up there."
Robotics company CyPhy Works unveiled two small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs): EASE and PARC.
Instead of communicating wirelessly drones receives instructions and power through a special thin and light cord.
Helen Greiner, CEO and Founder of CyPhy Works said? To be able to achieve a useful altitude or traverse useful distances, we had to engineer a completely new type of tether for the air domain, we call this a microfilament?
The advantages of this approach are:
Robot Operating System (ROS) created in 2007 by the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and developed further in Willow Garage to his fifth anniversary implemented in more than 90 types of robots.
First of all, this is robots itself Willow Garage PR2 (Personal robot) and TurtleBot. Also Aldebaran Nao, iRobot Roomba, WowWee Rovio, Lego NXT, Parrot AR.Drone and many other.
ROS provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. ROS is completely open source (BSD) and free. Primary goal is to enable software developers to build more capable robot applications quickly and easily on a common platform. The latest sixth version of ROS, Groovy Galapagos, is currently in Beta 1 Release.
11-12 May 2013 in Stuttgart, Germany consists ROSCon 2013, immediately following ICRA in the neighboring town Karlsruhe. Roboticists can visit just two wonderful conferences.