Meet Derek "The Great SLAMboni" Kartoffel The Great SLAMboni hanging out at the TechStars office. Derek "The Great SLAMboni" Kartoffel is our current low-cost research robot, costing less than $600 to build but capable of the same tasks that many multi-thousand dollar robots are typically used for in robotics research. Much thanks to Brian and Evan for naming Derek! During...
Meet the Robot Our robot watching the Belgium-US World Cup Game with the rest of the office last week. This is our robot, which has a lot of awesome capabilities for under $600, but still lacks a name and personality (let us know if you have any ideas for a good robot name!). In this post, we'll be giving some quick...
Hello World! We're Bill and Michael, two Olin College students joining the Aerospace Robotics team for the summer of 2014. An ordinary day at Olin College. Michael (on the left) is a Mechanical Engineering student; Bill (on the right) is a Robotics Engineering student. Regardless of the paperwork, we both think robots are awesome and enjoy building and helping others...
