Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Making the robot 'slightly' more aesthetically pleasing!

Although I think the robot making crew have been taking lessons from Sid Phillips of 'Toy Story' fame....



lots of wires...


fixing on the additional, crucial element...


and done...


but then ---- disaster ---- literally 3 minutes later.....decapitated!


Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Still in development

Although we've submitted part of our code, we are still developing the mechanisms to control the robot - at some point we also need to sort out how we are going to control it for the various tasks it will need to do at Cambridge...


For the time being, students seem to be having fun testing it - trying to work out its limits!


YouTube - clip 1


YouTube - clip 2

Monday, 2 November 2015