Task 3 - Five Normal Robots

The Adult Robot Toy, is one of the cooleset designs. It can dance, play music, do push ups and even respond to some comands. This must have many sensors to be able to do all these things. I think this is a very complex robot though and maybe hard to rpelicate some of its uses. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgl9a3fntkU&feature=related

The Dancing Sony Robots, are very cool. When the music plays the dance to the music. This sensor used must pick up the tune for it to dance to, which could be interesting to using in conjunction with the Arduino. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwZ5FQEUFg&feature=related.

The Robot Fish acts like a real fish in the water. It moves and acts like a real fish, however also is a very complex robot. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9oseiCTdk&feature=related.

The Tiny Chick Robot is an interesting one. It is baby bird, which when touched will make churping noises and flap it wings like a real baby bird. Again fairly complex and I would probably not use the parts. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5d3A-SV9Vo&feature=channel.

The Robot Violinist is a very cool and complex invention, this would take a lot of work to get this working. I would probably not use any of the parts for my arduino robot as it will be to complex. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjkBwZtxp4.

Task 2 - Presentation

Done in class.

Task 1 - Five Youtube Videos on Arduino Robots

Below is an arduino-based robot that can detect walls. It uses modified servos, which gives it continuous rotation and a Sharp IR Range finder. The continuous rotation could be interesting to use, as it will allow movement constantly without a controller. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo9m5PXjKks or blog http://bunedoggle.com/robots.php.

Here is another example of an arduino based robot. It is quite hard to see what it is doing, however I think it must have similar sensors as the last robot. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyvms5BDLw4

This is the coolest robot yet. It finds targets that are nearby and shoots rubberbands at them (in this case cups). This also uses servos and every quarter turn fires a rubberband and also uses a Sharp IR Range finder. Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBV-hF9AVDk&feature=related

Below is another Arduino powered robot. However this moved by a Wii Nunchuck. This is very cool and just follows the movement of the Nunchuck. It uses servos for movement, however couldn't find to much more information about it, but apparantly there is alot online about link an Arduino to Wii Nunchuck. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlukl5fLi7s&feature=related

Here is another example of a nunchuck and arduino robot. However this one has a camera on it and can be moved around, when the z button is clicked, the camera is locked on. This is very cool and is also using servos. It appears almost everything I have looked at is using servos. Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_-YnFZFP8&feature=related

First Robots

Eliza - A computer programmed robot that answered questions with questions. It had 240 lines of code.

Unimate Robot - The first industrial robot built in 1961. It took die casting from machines and performed weilding similar to a human task.

What Is A Robot?

A robot is a machine that can be programmed or controlled to do a specific task such as walking or flying. This is usually powered by electricity and can resemble human tasks.The word robot originates from Czech republic in 1921.


Wikipedia states that a robot is an automatically guided machine which is able to do tasks on its own, almost always due to electronically-programmed instructions. Another common characteristic is that by its appearance or movements, a robot often conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.


Dictionary.com defines a robot as:

1. A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
2. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
3. A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.