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Mathematical prerequisites for beginning graduate student in robotics
A beginning graduate student in robotics asked me the areas of mathematics that he should brush up on (prerequisites) to begin a masters research program in robotics. What are some good materials/books that are indispensable for a research student?…
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Do "toy" robots move technology forwards?
Over the last month, I saw many robots that don't have any real purpose, which made me ask myself: "Does this have any value?" I saw dancing robot on CES, advanced lego based robots and also robots combined for very limited purpose. I saw ten year…
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How do I set up a rubber hand experiment with precise latency?
The rubber hand illusion (Wikipedia) involves touching both a fake arm and a subject's real arm simultaneously. This causes the subject to feel that the fake arm belongs to him. Normally a human delivers both touches, so the timing is approximate. I…
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Robotics Trends
Robotics has always been one of those engineering fields which has promised so much, but is taking a long time to deliver all the things that people imagine.
When someone asks: "How long before we have [X] type of robots?" Are there any resources we…
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Places for the up-to-date topics in robotics
Are there specific places/websites where you guys read about the topics that are being searched in Robotics, specially, for the most newest researches. I would like to know the places where the most hottest topics in Robotics are studied for both…
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Open source robotics projects that have complex software structure?
I've built some robotic systems that rely on handcrafted hierarchical FSM, I'm hoping to learn more by studying codes from some open source system that have more complex structures. Can anyone point out some open source robotics projects that have…
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Is robotics and automation a contradiction?
With the Meccano toy it is possible to construct a variety of useful machines. For example a knitting machine, a loom or a steam engine. What these machines have in common is, that they are doing productive work, running fully autonomous and doesn't…
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What should I study if I want to get into robotics?
I understand this is a broad question but I'm taking the risk to ask anyway. Robotics, from what I can tell so far, is a detailed, diverse, and thorough field. However, if there are better areas of research to invest time into, what would those…
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