Robotics Links

This is a mostly-unformatted list of cool robotics stuff, whether it be books, components or robots themselves. I plan to keep this up-to-date as I find items of interest.

Robots

• SCAMP Really sweet quadcopter that, using micro-hooks, can attach to and climb up a wall
• Bat bot Bat robot. 'Nuff said.
• ARTI3 Passivly articulated tracked robot for stair climbing
• High precision teleoperation From UT Austin, a cool control interface
• Panasonic assist exoskeletons Title says it all
• Shape memory metal foam for soft robotics
• SRI's PCB-based microrobots
• Non-holonomic walking robot
• Google has a group of robots that share training data to speed up CNN-based learning
• UPenn Picobug-tiny walking flying robot. Cool parts include origami walking linkage, and using quadcopter to control rotation when walking

Resources

• Seminar on how weirdly good human performance is
• IEEE Spectrum Robotics tag
• Talk on challenges in drone flight
• CMU robotics youtube channel
• Free ebook from CSAIL on underactuated robotics

Components

• HEBI actuators Pre-packaged SEA actuators-just plug and play. Includes cool video of robot arm assembling actuators.
• Fast, high-precision IR sensor for drones
• SGbotic Fast shipping, selection similar to sparkfun, bit pricey