🤖 Shark Robotics, the French leader in the unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) field
Company designs reliable high-quality UGV, which combine power, reliability and robustness
Developed models:
▫️ RHYNO PROTECT is a small and versatile robot for disinfection and fire safety missions. Has a pulling capacity of 250 kg and carrying capacity of 200 kg. Works up to 5 hours in operational situation.
▫️ COLOSSUS is a multi-purpose support robot for operations in high-risk areas. The most powerful electrical robot in the world (500 kg). Resistant to thermal waves (up to 900°C). Works up to 12 hours in operational situations.
▫️ BARAKUDA is a multi-purpose mule unmanned ground vehicle. Designed to evacuate wounded people. Parachutable, droppable by helicopter, and towing by vehicles.
▫️ ATRAX is a small and versatile EOD robot designed to be operated in high-risk areas: dismantling of explosive devices, examine dangerous areas, gathering information, objects manipulation and making samples.
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Company designs reliable high-quality UGV, which combine power, reliability and robustness
Developed models:
▫️ RHYNO PROTECT is a small and versatile robot for disinfection and fire safety missions. Has a pulling capacity of 250 kg and carrying capacity of 200 kg. Works up to 5 hours in operational situation.
▫️ COLOSSUS is a multi-purpose support robot for operations in high-risk areas. The most powerful electrical robot in the world (500 kg). Resistant to thermal waves (up to 900°C). Works up to 12 hours in operational situations.
▫️ BARAKUDA is a multi-purpose mule unmanned ground vehicle. Designed to evacuate wounded people. Parachutable, droppable by helicopter, and towing by vehicles.
▫️ ATRAX is a small and versatile EOD robot designed to be operated in high-risk areas: dismantling of explosive devices, examine dangerous areas, gathering information, objects manipulation and making samples.
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💻 Useful Tips For Learning Embedded Programming
Good article for beginning in embedded programming with clean explanations, examples with pieces of code, etc.
The list is oriented to programmers like the girl/guy writing their very first lines of code up to experienced programmers from other remote galaxies like web developers. It may be useful to you if you are starting to develop for embedded systems, that go from the simplest Arduino board up to custom boards.
Most of the topics in the list are about the area I cover, that is, the microcontroller/bare-metal area of embedded programming (no high level languages or operating systems), a little on microelectronics and some other non-programming topics worth mentioning.
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Good article for beginning in embedded programming with clean explanations, examples with pieces of code, etc.
The list is oriented to programmers like the girl/guy writing their very first lines of code up to experienced programmers from other remote galaxies like web developers. It may be useful to you if you are starting to develop for embedded systems, that go from the simplest Arduino board up to custom boards.
Most of the topics in the list are about the area I cover, that is, the microcontroller/bare-metal area of embedded programming (no high level languages or operating systems), a little on microelectronics and some other non-programming topics worth mentioning.
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🤖 Mars Perseverance Rover Replica with Arduino
In this tutorial you will learn how to built a replica of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Inspired by the real rover which is currently exploring Mars, I designed this rover in a way that everyone who love this technology, students, makers, mechatronics or robotics enthusiast, and so on, can easily follow the instructions in this video and build their own Mars Rover.
Let’s take a look at the main features of this rover. It employs a rocker-bogie suspension which allows the rover to run smoothly on uneven terrain and climb obstacles, such as rocks, that are up to twice the wheel’s diameter in size while keeping all six wheels in contact with the ground all time.
In order to efficiently steer the rover and avoid tire slipping when driving around a curve, we are implementing the Ackermann steering geometry. With this geometry we can calculate the speed and angle of each wheel depending on the turning radius.
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In this tutorial you will learn how to built a replica of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Inspired by the real rover which is currently exploring Mars, I designed this rover in a way that everyone who love this technology, students, makers, mechatronics or robotics enthusiast, and so on, can easily follow the instructions in this video and build their own Mars Rover.
Let’s take a look at the main features of this rover. It employs a rocker-bogie suspension which allows the rover to run smoothly on uneven terrain and climb obstacles, such as rocks, that are up to twice the wheel’s diameter in size while keeping all six wheels in contact with the ground all time.
In order to efficiently steer the rover and avoid tire slipping when driving around a curve, we are implementing the Ackermann steering geometry. With this geometry we can calculate the speed and angle of each wheel depending on the turning radius.
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📰 Learning from the global chip shortage
The chip crisis is bound to persist at least until the second quarter of 2022, according to research firm Gartner. The time it takes to produce a single semiconductor might increase by six months, with more complex ones requiring up to a year to be completed.
This will continue to have disastrous consequences in the production and supply of devices containing touch screens, fingerprint sensors and microcontrollers, impacting sectors as diverse as gaming, security, home appliances and automotive.
The good news is that with every challenge comes a lesson. Governments worldwide are spurring initiatives to increase semiconductor self-sufficiency and diversify the supply chain.
In the US, manufacturing giants such as Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft have founded the Semiconductors in America Coalition (SIAC), while the EU is heavily investing in new facilities and equipment, aiming to produce 20% of the global chip supply by 2030.
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The chip crisis is bound to persist at least until the second quarter of 2022, according to research firm Gartner. The time it takes to produce a single semiconductor might increase by six months, with more complex ones requiring up to a year to be completed.
This will continue to have disastrous consequences in the production and supply of devices containing touch screens, fingerprint sensors and microcontrollers, impacting sectors as diverse as gaming, security, home appliances and automotive.
The good news is that with every challenge comes a lesson. Governments worldwide are spurring initiatives to increase semiconductor self-sufficiency and diversify the supply chain.
In the US, manufacturing giants such as Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft have founded the Semiconductors in America Coalition (SIAC), while the EU is heavily investing in new facilities and equipment, aiming to produce 20% of the global chip supply by 2030.
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Bricks Batteries Last Forever
Embedded Podcast
🎙 Embedded Podcast: Bricks’ Batteries Last Forever (snippet)
Matthew Liberty shared good advice for lowering power. We talk about different ways to measure current (Matt has a nice write-up) and things software can do to decrease power consumption.
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Matthew Liberty shared good advice for lowering power. We talk about different ways to measure current (Matt has a nice write-up) and things software can do to decrease power consumption.
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🚗 How Software Is Eating the Car
Good article about the latest trends in automotive industry and development of electronics and software in modern cars.
The semiconductor shortage has placed an intense spotlight on the auto industry’s reliance on the dozens of concealed computers embedded throughout vehicles today.
Ten years ago, only premium cars contained 100 microprocessor-based electronic control units (ECUs) networked throughout the body of a car, executing 100 million lines of code or more.
Today, high-end cars like the BMW 7-series with advanced technology like advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) may contain 150 ECUs or more, while pick-up trucks like Ford’s F-150 top 150 million lines of code.
Even low-end vehicles are quickly approaching 100 ECUs and 100 million of lines of code as more features that were once considered luxury options, such as adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking, are becoming standard.
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Good article about the latest trends in automotive industry and development of electronics and software in modern cars.
The semiconductor shortage has placed an intense spotlight on the auto industry’s reliance on the dozens of concealed computers embedded throughout vehicles today.
Ten years ago, only premium cars contained 100 microprocessor-based electronic control units (ECUs) networked throughout the body of a car, executing 100 million lines of code or more.
Today, high-end cars like the BMW 7-series with advanced technology like advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) may contain 150 ECUs or more, while pick-up trucks like Ford’s F-150 top 150 million lines of code.
Even low-end vehicles are quickly approaching 100 ECUs and 100 million of lines of code as more features that were once considered luxury options, such as adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking, are becoming standard.
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🤖 Moley Robotics: The future is served
"The Moley Robotic Kitchen allows you to save time, free up your day from routine cooking, plan and adapt your menu according to different diets and lifestyles, enjoy international cuisine anytime, control calories and get cooking tips and recipes from chefs around the world."
Moley Robotics is a robotics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom that developed, created and put on the market the first robotic kitchen based on a multifunctional cooking platform.
Company emphasizes that it aims to improve quality of life and health by combining innovative technology and nutrition in every home and commercial institution. The ultimate goal claimed by Moley Robotics is to design a robotic kitchen that can be delivered to the mass market at an affordable price.
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"The Moley Robotic Kitchen allows you to save time, free up your day from routine cooking, plan and adapt your menu according to different diets and lifestyles, enjoy international cuisine anytime, control calories and get cooking tips and recipes from chefs around the world."
Moley Robotics is a robotics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom that developed, created and put on the market the first robotic kitchen based on a multifunctional cooking platform.
Company emphasizes that it aims to improve quality of life and health by combining innovative technology and nutrition in every home and commercial institution. The ultimate goal claimed by Moley Robotics is to design a robotic kitchen that can be delivered to the mass market at an affordable price.
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🧠 Techniques for studying books more effectively
I developed an elaborate and carefully-specified system of shorthand notation to represent causal, temporal, and physical structures. It used Newick notation for tree structures, variants on arrow signs to articulate causation, sequence, combination, and more, templates to rewrite the stereotyped information presented by textbooks in a uniform format, and hyperlinks in Obsidian to represent the relationships between concepts.
The rigid structure of my note-taking approach gave me clear guidance on what it means to "read" or "study" a textbook chapter. The idea of bringing together any data, formula, charts, or techniques I needed to solve a problem, and then making a plan of attack before setting to work, was a big upgrade for my accuracy and sense of ease.
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I developed an elaborate and carefully-specified system of shorthand notation to represent causal, temporal, and physical structures. It used Newick notation for tree structures, variants on arrow signs to articulate causation, sequence, combination, and more, templates to rewrite the stereotyped information presented by textbooks in a uniform format, and hyperlinks in Obsidian to represent the relationships between concepts.
The rigid structure of my note-taking approach gave me clear guidance on what it means to "read" or "study" a textbook chapter. The idea of bringing together any data, formula, charts, or techniques I needed to solve a problem, and then making a plan of attack before setting to work, was a big upgrade for my accuracy and sense of ease.
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📰 NASA Awards PickNik an SBIR Grant for Orbital Robot Autonomy
PickNik Robotics announced on June 8th that it has been awarded a NASA Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop its technology for advanced planning capabilities for robots in microgravity environments.
Founded in 2015, PickNik is a robotics software company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. PickNik is the lead maintainer of the open-source MoveIt project, a widely used robotic motion planning framework within the Robot Operating System (ROS).
“We are so excited to be collaborating with NASA in pushing the frontier of robotic manipulation beyond factories and warehouses, and into the most difficult domains,” commented Dr. Dave Coleman, PickNik founder and CEO.
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PickNik Robotics announced on June 8th that it has been awarded a NASA Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop its technology for advanced planning capabilities for robots in microgravity environments.
Founded in 2015, PickNik is a robotics software company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. PickNik is the lead maintainer of the open-source MoveIt project, a widely used robotic motion planning framework within the Robot Operating System (ROS).
“We are so excited to be collaborating with NASA in pushing the frontier of robotic manipulation beyond factories and warehouses, and into the most difficult domains,” commented Dr. Dave Coleman, PickNik founder and CEO.
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