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Are we destined to become one with machines? Notes on a Kevin Warwick Talk On the 10th November 2004, Kevin Warwick came to the University of Leeds to give a talk entitled "Cyborg Engineering - Practical experiments with implant technology".	Ben Wootton	10/11/2004
Sony Spring Festival 2004 at Mediage A relatively large Sony exhibition with a strong emphasis on Qrio - Generation5 investigated!	James Matthews	31/03/2004
AIBO Pictures Various pictures taken of Generation5's AIBO, Genki, and AIBOs in Japan.	James Matthews	13/01/2003
Generation5 at ROBODEX 2002 A photo journal of ROBODEX 2002.	Darryl and Mari Matthews	05/04/2002
Japan: Gateway to the Future - Report A report on the exhibition at the London Science Museum.	James Matthews	03/02/2002

General
The role of simulation in robotics In the last two decades a new category of robotics, the mobile robots evolved significantly, so nowadays they reached the level of everyday usage.	Richard Szabo	29/05/2005
Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics in Japan: A Symbiotic Relationship This essay looks at a large range of factors that contribute to anime and its unique relationship with the acceptance of robotics within Japan, including post-war development and the lack of ambivalence toward technology.	James Matthews	02/06/2004

Hacking
Robosapien Internals For those of you that don't want to take apart your Robosapien, a brief look under the hood.	James Matthews	23/08/2004

LEGO Mindstorms
Beetles, beetles, everywhere beetles A look at evolving a beetle-like robot using genetic algorithms and LEGO Mindstorms.	Bert van Dam	06/02/2005
Genetic Algorithms and Lego This article implements a genetic algorithm within LEGO Mindstorms.	Bert van Dam	06/02/2005
Simple neural network as robot brain An in-depth look at controlling a LEGO robot using neural networks.	Bert van Dam	06/02/2005
Designing and Rendering LEGO Mindstorms Robots This is intended to be a fun article that looks at how to design LEGO Mindstorms robots, as well as how to create high-resolution renders and construction videos.	James Matthews	16/11/2004
Legway: Building a Self-Balancing Robot with Standard Parts Using just two standard light sensors, I managed to get a reasonable self-balancing robot up and running. This articles shows you how I did it.	James Matthews	10/11/2004
LEGO Pseudo-Turing Machine A pseudo-Turing Machine created using LEGO Mindstorms.	Aatish Bhatia	29/03/2002
CRipComm - RCX IR Protocal Communications Class A C++ class that deals with the low-level IR protocol.	James Matthews	21/04/2001
LEGO IR Protocol in C++ Accessing the IR Tower at the bit level.	James Matthews	20/04/2001
Accessing the LEGO Cam Video Stream for Motion Detection How to retrieve and modify the raw video data from your QuickCam.	James Matthews	17/03/2001
Programming with the LEGO Cam How to use the QuickCam SDK to program your Vision Command camera.	James Matthews	20/02/2001
Creating Your Own Vision Command Regions Vision Command is great, but is doesn't allow custom region creation. The article shows you how!	James Matthews	17/02/2001
Using spirit.ocx in Visual C++ Discusses how to load and use the LEGO ActiveX Control in Visual C++!	James Matthews	24/08/2000
Proximity Detection Learning Using NQC Simple article explaining an NQC program that shows how to use the light detector for proximity detection.	James Matthews	23/08/2000

Machine Learning
Emerging behavior: the wave (4 x 12F675) An article looking at creating emergent behaviour using 4 x 12F675 processors.	Bert van Dam	06/02/2005
Machine learning (2 x 16F877) This article looks at one PIC processor learning a sequence of numbers from another without any human intervention.	Bert van Dam	06/02/2005

Navigation
Difficulties of Robot Navigation Looks at human methods of navigation at their associated problems to robotic design.	Richard Szabo	08/08/2004

Norland Research Calculator Robot
Emulating the Compurobot on the Calculator Robot II Mimick programming the old educational robot, Compurobot, on your Calculator Robot II.	James Matthews	15/07/2003
Introduction to the Calculator Robot A simple demonstration about how to use the Calculator Robot's bumpers and motors.	James Matthews	04/11/2000

Parallax Basic Stamp II
Introduction to IR with the STAMP II Basic look at how to use infra-red with the Stamp II.	James Matthews	11/05/2001
Basic Serial Communication with Stamp II How to communicate to and from a BASIC Stamp II chip via the serial port.	James Matthews	20/04/2001

Sony AIBO Entertainment Robot
Simple Hacking with your AIBO Want to get more out of your ERS-110/111 AIBO? Take a look at this article for more details.	James Matthews	23/12/2000

Tutorials
Cambot: Creating a Mobile Machine Vision Platform Discusses how to interface the CMUcam2 and Parallax BOE to create a vision-enabled robot.	James Matthews	25/09/2004
Converting a Floppy Disk Drive into a Simple Robot (Part I) Creating a robot out of a discarded floppy drive can be excellent fun -- this article shows you how!	Chris Barron	19/04/2001
Converting a Floppy Disk Drive into a Simple Robot (Part II) The second part of the tutorial.	Chris Barron	19/04/2001

Yost Engineering BugBrain
Programming the BugBrain A introductory look at the BugBrain robot, how the servos work, and some programming ideas	James Matthews	11/07/2003