Robotics Weekly #1

Robotics Weekly

Issue #1

11.12.2015

Featured article:

• Can my robot recognize stuff? - Google has recently announced that they released Google Cloud Vision API. This means, that if your robot is connected to Internet and have video camera, you can use their API and try to recognize objects which your robot see. This could also work for detecting/guessing emotions of person.

Articles and videos:

• The odds of a machine doing your job - cool infographics about predictions of machines replacing humans on job markets. Not so surprising but still interesting.

• F3Expo - Masters of Freestyle Finals - Skitzo FPv - mad remote controlled quadcopter skills. I'm starting to feel nauseous just by watching it.
• Raspberry Pi robot as a gift - comparison of three Raspberry Pi robot kits for beginners. It might be great idea for Christmas gift.
• Coactive learning technique - are you afraid that someday a robot will  accidentally slice your guts? Maybe you should teach him that this is not desired process.
• How to build your first robot tutorial - Simple 14-part tutorial which shows how to build your first robot.
• Robots and ... fashion? - Robot without any functionality? Can this make any sense? It looks like yes, if you are fashion designer and plan to wear it.

Crowdfunding:

• Fleye - very interesting flying robot in form of basketball which is supposed to be taking cool images/videos autonomously. And since it has ball form it should be safer than traditional drone.

Book of the week:

• Make: Making Simple Robots - book about getting started with robots world. Parts of this book are dedicated to get you familiar with simple tinkering concepts, CAD software, and Arduino boards. You probably will bot build super humanoid robot after this book, but you will be able to check it this stuff is right for you. If you are quick (till 17th of December 2015), you can get this and other book on Humble Books Bundle.

Courses:

• Aerial Robotics - first of series of courses on Coursera related to robotics. This course is dedicated to moving in three dimensional cluttered environments.

Jobs:

• Software Engineer / Robotics Engineer @ Boston Dynamics - do you know C/C++ in real time applications? Do you love working with sensors, digital signal processing and putting data over networks? Go to their website and who knows, maybe you will be designing cool robots in no time ;)

Humor:

• XKCD - What can happen when you permute Asimov laws of robotics?  

Kudos:

Michał Neonek

Appendix:

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