Hardware : Motors & Motor Control

• Control of Stepping Motors - this tutorial covers the basic principles of stepping motors and stepping motor control systems, including both the physics of the motor, the electronics of the basic control systems, and software architectures appropriate for motor control. ^pop
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Resources

• Robot Projects - Various projects for the robotics enthusiast. ^pop
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• GoRobotics.net - Everything you need to know about robotics. Projects. Links. Books. Resources. Tutorials. News. Reviews. And more! ^pop
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Resources : Web Directories

• The Legged Robot Builder - this site is a resource for builders of autonomous legged robots. Whether your robot walks, crawls, runs or hops, these links may offer some inspiration. ^pop
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Robots

• SHRIMP: High Mobility Wheeled Rover - Shrimp is able to overcome obstacles up to twice its wheel size and can climb regular stairs. It has 6 wheels each powered by a 1.75 W DC motor. The total weight of this first prototype is 3.1 kg including 600 g of batteries. The site contains a video in MPEG and RealVideo format. ^pop
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• HOME-ROBOT.COM - This site is dedicated to home robots, and includes information about the author's home robot, Cybert. ^pop
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Robots : Artistic

• nemomatic - The kinetic, robot sculptures of artist, Nemo Gould. A collection of photos and videos of robots made from found materials. ^pop
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Robots : BEAM

• BEAM Online - The site for all things BEAM. Includes tutorials, schematics, galleries, information, articles, links and more. ^pop
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• Insectroïdes - A really cool BEAM robotics site with information. Includes excellent tutorials, quality pictures, video of robots in action , resources, links and much more. ^pop
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• Beamboticist - Personal BEAM site ^pop
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Robots : Humanoids

• Rodney - An open source upper torso humanoid robot currently under development. ^pop
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• Biped Robot - A biped robot that can straighten itself up from a fallen position on it's own. ^pop
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Robots : Individuals

• Aart Jochem's Amateur Robotics Page - A great page on amateur robotics, with 2 projects, tips, hardware and software resources. ^pop
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Robots : Personal Robots

• Cye Personal Robot - Cye is a personal robot designed for you! Whereas an industrial robot is designed to perform a task or a job in manufacturing, a personal robot is designed to work and perform tasks for its user. Cye is controlled through a simple graphic user interface on any PC. ^pop
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• iRobot-LE - The iRobot-LE™ is the first multi-purpose home robot controllable from a web browser anywhere in the world. It is a powerful personal computer with sensors that allow it to understand the world around it. ^pop
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Robots : Robotic Arms

• Robotic Webcam - The robotic arm webcam has 5 control points, including a clamp. ^pop
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• Canadarm2 - Canada's new generation space arm. ^pop
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Robots : Walking Robots

• Cricket - is a simple walking robot. He walks around using a tri-gate step, avoids objects when touched by the feelers, and chirps randomly. ^pop
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• BiPed - This BiPed is an autonomous walking two legged robot. It can walk over small obstacles, and it can make curves. You find an extensive description on the website. ^pop
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• HexWorks - a new, Rabbit2000 based, hexapod autonomous robot hits the road! ^pop
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• BiPed Robot V-3 - The V-3 is a two-legged walking robot with 12 active degrees of freedom, developed to get far as possible to the movement of the human legs. A prototype of an upper body with 16 DOF is under development. For now the robots are controlled by PC. ^pop
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Software

• The Rossum Project - a site dedicated to free, open-source software for robotics. Its latest release features an Java-based 2D robot simulation intended to help developers create navigation, exploration, and maze-solving logic. The Rossum Project is now seeking both new software and developers to assist in its creation. ^pop
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Software : Simulators

• Camelot - Robot Offline Programming and Simulation Software - Camelots Ropsim is windows based Robot Offline Programming and Simulation Software for industrial robots. With Ropsim you can program your robot on your PC. ^pop
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• RoboWorks - RoboWorks is an easy to use software tool for 3D modeling, simulation and animation of any physical system. RoboWorks users benefit from: Extremely intuitive model development, High quality, fully interactive 3D graphics, Interfacing with popular software packages. RoboWorks supports interactive animation via the keyboard, through a data file, or through the open source RoboTalk programming interface. ^pop
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• BugWorks 2D Robot Simulator - 2D robot simulator written in Java with cut-and-paste user interface plus all the usual features. ^pop
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