NASA Robots

NASA Robots

       NASA has innovated and designed special robots which can aid them in doing tasks in dangerous environments. The most common works that are done by these robots are the repair of radiation exposed machines, capturing videos in outer space, getting into minute places inside the space craft where astronauts cannot enter and so on. In some cases, the researchers in NASA have even created robots that almost resemble to human beings in the physical structure and also the different degrees of freedom. Some of the robots that were designed by NASA are described below.

Anthropomimetic Machines - The Humanoid Robots

Anthropomimetic Machines

        The Robotics technology has become highly advanced to such a level that even people who have routine jobs [in industries] are replaced by robots. Though the initial cost of such robots may be high, the overall gain will be huge when compared to manual labour. To us, robots are just machines with two arms and two legs which are connected together by nuts and bolts.

3-Phase Irrigation Water Pump Controller by GSM module for illiterates

      This project aims in providing a user friendly, reliable and automated water pumping system for illiterates. Now a day's technology is running with time, it completely occupied the life style of human beings. Even though there is such an importance for technology in our routine life there are even people whose life style are very far to this well known term technology. So it is our responsibility to design few reliable systems which can be even efficiently used by them. This basic idea gave birth to the project GSM based irrigation water pump controller for illiterates and this project aims in introducing the automation technology into the lives of the illiterates.

Remote Controlled Spy Car

Abstract

               We have seen bluetooth controlled car before this. Today we are going to see remote controlled spy robotic car. Here is the block diagram of remote controlled spy car. Applications of this car are this car can capture picture, can record audio as well as video using wireless remote controller i.e. using RF signals. Maximum range of this robotic car is 125 meters. It overcomes with limited range of infrared remote controllers.

Bluetooth Car

Abstract

            Today’s RC toys are controlled by a single dedicated (and often proprietary) controller.  We endeavored to develop a remote control car that would be controlled via Bluetooth wireless technology.  Since Bluetooth is a standardized and relatively reliable wireless protocol, we hoped to create a car controllable by any Bluetooth device.  Additionally, Bluetooth consumes low power and has a larger bandwidth than the standard 900MHz RF link which drives most toys.  This added benefit allows for sending of complex information from the car to the controlling device—something unseen in consumer grade RC cars.  Our computer-controlled Bluetooth car demo showed the feasibility and practicality of Bluetooth controlled devices while also revealing limitations in the amount of data transmission capable by commercially available Bluetooth options.

Project Report On Automatic Locking And Unlocking Of Door

Flexible Electronics Now Possible By Semiconductor Spray Paint

CREDIT: Wake Forest University

Flexible electronics, like a handheld computer that rolls up like a magazine or a video display embedded in a shirtsleeve are no longer limited to the realm of sci-fi, but they are still generally too expensive for the consumer market. Part of the problem is that semiconductor compounds that move electricity between different materials of varying conductivity tend to be inflexible or brittle.