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How Robots Work R2D2 (Star Wars) Industrial Robots Data (Star Trek) Mars Rover (NASA) HAL (Movie: “2001”) Robomower LEGO Robotics Kits

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How Hydraulics Works

Produce Produce Force Force

(900 lbs)(900 lbs)

Cylinders

Pistons

A = πr2

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Robotic Arm

end effector

How Articulated Robot Arms Work BMW Berlin Plant

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Robotic Hand

Robotic Hand DemoAwesome Robot Ride

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Mobile Robots

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Homebrew Robots

Battlebots Robocup

RoboCup is a an international joint project to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined.

GOAL: By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.

Great Goalkeeping Rovio

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Robots and Artificial Intelligence Solving Rubrick’s Cube Robot Housekeeper MIT Friendly Robot

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Artificial Intelligence at the Movies

2001: A Space Odyssey

AI Bicentennial Man Blade Runner Demon Seed The Matrix Short Circuit The Terminator Westworld