AR Drone: Augmented Reality Flying Robot

AR Drone is a flying robot which has 4 propellers, two cameras and can be controlled with device with WiFi, for example iPhone.

This drone use two cameras to know its position and then to build Augmented Reality. The drone is robust against the wind. It can transform its surrounding into augmented reality for iPhone.

It is said that the AR Drone is future of AR gaming industry.

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More about the Drone can be seen from IEEE Spectrum article.

Church and Robotic

After I googled a little bit, I found some "churches" related to robot or Robotics.

• Church of the Big Robot in the Sky, a group in Facebook. I interpret that "the Big Robot" is God.
  
• The Church of the Immortal Robot Reagan, a website to make fun of Church of Scientology and money-making scam. OK, this is more "church" than "robot".
  
• "A Robotic Church", short stories from Joy Argow, who looks very religious (from her writing). This writing is more "church" than "robotic".
  

Well, my blog is supposed to talk more about "Robotics" than "church".

Do enjoy reading other posts from this blog!

Robots are still not smart enough to open a door

For Homo Sapiens (yes, that's us, human), it is easy to open a door. But for humanoid robot, opening a door is difficult. The robot should balance itself on two feet and give enough swing (or energy) to open a door. Swinging means unbalance position. Then a robot should be back into stable or balance position, which calles standing.

IEEE Spectrum published an article about how a humanoid robot opens a door.

Hello, Roboticist

Hello, Roboticist!

This is another blog of mine. This blog will be about robots and robotics.

My experience with Robotics is just in study. I was Bachelor student in Electrical Engineering at the "Institut Teknologi Bandung" (ITB) in Bandung, Indonesia. My specialty is Control Engineering. The control engineering student learned (the basic of) Robotics: Forward Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics.

I am now master student in Information and Automation Engineering at the University of Bremen. There is a course about robotics: Robotics I and Robotics II. The first part is about kinematics, control, motion planning and trajectory planning. The second part is about visually guided robot: image processing, feature extraction, classification, image geometry, visual servoing, stereo camera and so on.

I made this blog in order to put something interesting about robotics. I pick name "The Church of Robotics" so that I can get followers, hahaha. Actually the name was chosen because I have to make something different with other robotics blogs and websites. It happened that the name crossed into my mind. I hope with that name, I can be on the first page of Google Search.

Enjoy reading this blog!

You can also visit my other blog about Brain Robot: Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), EEG, brainwave, MRI, and so on.