We’re heading to the very first Boulder Is For Robots Meetup on Feb. 7. Our technical advisor Dr. Nikolaus Correll of the University of Colorado’s Correll Lab is one of the organizers. Check it out here and you can read more about it here.
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The Phasespace Motion Capture Impulse system is now available on-site at the Occam Robotics office here in Boulder, CO. For leasing and pricing information, please contact us at info.at.occamrobotics.com.
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Type “kinect” into Slashdot and you can see just how much the Kinect technology is really kickstarting a lot of cool projects in the computer vision and robotics space. Here are some links that are interesting for us and, of course, more Kinect video stalking. Kinect gesture recognition has an open source project and here’s…
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Here’s a video discussing how the Kinect camera (designed for Xbox 360) can be used with robots and SLAM to create real-time 3d modeling of a robot’s surroundings. (Head here for the full article.) It’s pretty cool. The project was created by Philipp Robbel (a PhD student with MIT’s Personal Robots Group) who used iRobot’s “Create” machines….
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This is a great video of an automated manufacturing line made entirely with legos. Not quite what we do at Occam (we’re in the middle of welding one of the iterations for our product — which is a little more dangerous). But it’s still an awesome video. (Head here, for the full article.)
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