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As you’re more than aware by now, Generation Robots is a huge fan of the Lego Mindstorms EV3 kits. We were already won over by its previous version, the Lego Mindstorms NXT, but this latest version is just packed with bricks , sensors and motors all waiting to be transformed into robots ! From now[…]
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Printing directly from a smartphone has become an everyday reality. Now, you can also use your smartphone to control your 3D printers ! The revolution has begun… Available for iOS since last summer, the MakerBot app for controlling and managing a 3D printer from your smartphone was sorely missed by the (many) users of the[…]
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The Baxter robot’s SDK has been updated to version 1.1: you can now use the research version of the collaborative robot with the latest ROS release – Indigo! First you will need to install Ubuntu 14.04 on your workstation in order to make the very most of the latest version of ROS . Less than a year[…]
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Collaborative robots , or “cobots” (contraction of “collaborative” and “robots”), are definitely a strong trend in today’s robotics developments. Out go the heavy, imposing robots locked in their cages for safety reasons, it’s time to make way for collaborative robots! This blog article will help you distinguish between these two types of robot : collaborative[…]
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In order to make Baxter robot even more collaborative, the GR Lab , Generation Robots’ engineering team, decided to fit upon it the most famous depth measuring sensor: The Kinect camera. There is nothing more natural for a collaborative robot than to directly interact with someone, if he instantly detects this person in its surroundings. Why embed[…]
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Here is the second part of our interview with Didier Roy. To read the first half, it’s over here ! Génération Robots : Why do you think the Thymio 2 has been so successful among children and the Dessine-moi un robot site with teachers and coordinators? Didier Roy : As far as the Thymio robot is[…]
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Schools in the 21st century are gradually incorporating new technologies into their curricula and educational tools. Digital and robotics do have a great deal to offer in the classroom, as they increase pupils’ motivation and help reduce inequalities and academic failure. We interviewed Didier Roy , a researcher in the INRIA Flowers team and maths[…]
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More and more, robots play a role in the performances arts . Off course, some types of robots are used more frequently than others, because of their shapes or functionalities. “Medical” and “consultations” are not the first words that come to mind when we think about the double telepresence robot, but some ingenious people decided to show[…]
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State education in France is on the brink of a major revolution. Increasing numbers of work groups, proposals and initiatives are today contributing to the creation of more innovative schools. Innovative schools: the new government flagship In early November, François Hollande launched the Plan pour le numérique à l’école ( Plan for Digital Technology in Schools[…]
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As you’ll have already gathered from reading our earlier postings, Thymio II is quite a versatile mobile robot . You can of course use it to teach people about programming, but that’s not all! This mobile robot, created by the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, can also serve as a digital paintbrush. For[…]
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