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• Residential Solar Power Heads Toward Grid Parity
• Graphene Hybrid Material Comes to the Rescue of Li-ion Battery-Powered Vehicles
• Laser Fusion’s Brightest Hope
• HVDC Supergrid Technologies Besting Expectations
• Learn How to Program a TurtleBot and Use ROS

Residential Solar Power Heads Toward Grid Parity Posted: 28 Mar 2013 07:00 AM PDT Some rooftop photovoltaics are already cost-effective

Graphene Hybrid Material Comes to the Rescue of Li-ion Battery-Powered Vehicles Posted: 27 Mar 2013 09:08 PM PDT Nano-scale ribbons made of vanadium oxide and graphene produce cathodes with both high energy and power density

Laser Fusion’s Brightest Hope Posted: 27 Mar 2013 12:36 PM PDT The National Ignition Facility houses the world's most powerful laser. Is it enough to ignite a fusion revolution?

HVDC Supergrid Technologies Besting Expectations Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:11 AM PDT Components for meshed high-voltage DC networks are improving fast. Market barriers are the likely rate-limiting factor for Europe's efforts to exchange renewable power at continental scale.

Learn How to Program a TurtleBot and Use ROS Posted: 18 Mar 2013 07:42 AM PDT What can you do with a TurtleBot 2? We're about to find out

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RobotShop Feeds In This Issue... RobotShop Launches 3D Printing Service More Recent Articles Search RobotShop Blog RobotShop Launches 3D Printing Service RobotShop Prints the World Around You We are launching RobotShop’s 3D Printing service. The goal is to make it possible for roboticists to order the custom parts they need to make their robots along with their other robotic components. See the full press release, or the transcription below for further information. RobotShop Announces its Global 3D Printing Service RobotShop.com, the world’s leading robot store announces today a new service allowing their customers to upload their design and have their objects 3D printed and shipped to their home or business. Mirabel, Quebec, Canada. – RobotShop announced today the launch of a new 3D printing service to complement their online products catalogue. The service's slogan is "Print the World Around you™. The process is pretty simple: customers upload their file, RobotShop prints the part and then ships it to the customer wherever they may be on the planet. With more than 5000 products specific to robotics, RobotShop already offers almost all of the parts needed to build custom robots. This new service complements the website perfectly as it will allow customers to create custom mechanical parts such as chassis and frames. “Most of the time when you build a robot, you need custom mechanical parts. The process of building a robot using plexiglass, wood and hot glue is over.” indicated Mario Tremblay, founder and CEO of RobotShop. “Ever since we first played with a 3D printers in-house, we have seen firsthand the benefits of being able to print custom objects quickly with no delay. We want to offer this to our customers who do not have their own 3D printer yet. Customers can add their 3D printed design to their order and everything will be shipped together”. With this new service, RobotShop's objective is to better serve the customer by offering all the parts and services needed to help them build their custom robotic prototypes at a minimum cost This new service can just as easily be used to replace a broken part on domestic robot, create a useful widget or any other use that can be dreamt up. We are very excited about this new service and we already ordered our first print as shown below. Granted it is not a robotic part, but it is certainly lots of fun and it took only a few second to get the model from Thingiverse. Batman Cookie Cutter What are you waiting for? Start printing now! • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Immortality as an Investment Opportunity Chapter 2: Roomba 500 Series Maintenance Robot Combat League, or Real Steel for Real 2013 Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon Announced All Sciences Lead to Robotics

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New Build Pictures of Envy, Andrew’s Newest Quad Posted: 27 Mar 2013 08:33 AM PDT Mech Warfare is quickly approaching and the entrants are finalizing their bots before game day. Our own Andrew Alter is turning up the heat this year with his newest Quadruped, Envy! Envy uses 16 MX-64T and 2 MX-28T DYNAMIXEL robot actuators to produce its silky smooth movement. You can see a gallery of Andrew’s newest build here and some earlier pictures of his quad here Envy’s body is based on Ryan Lowerr’s QKQ1 design, an Open Source Quadruped. The head and guns are modified version’s of Andrew’s own Insanity Wolf mech. Leave a comment if you’d like to see your Mech Warfare entry up on the blog!

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RobotShop Feeds In This Issue... Immortality as an Investment Opportunity More Recent Articles Search RobotShop Blog Immortality as an Investment Opportunity 2045 Milestones Dmitry Itskov, a Russian mogul, recently launched the “2045 Initiative“. His main goal is to promote the development of technology aimed at achieving immortality. As shown in the image above, the project has very ambitious milestones that can be arguably a bit too optimistic. The initiative expects to be able to produce an android (humanoid robot with human appearance) by 2015 which could host and maintain a human brain after a person has died. The project then goes on to more ambitious goals of producing more advanced avatars which would make it possible to “backup” and augment the “human essence”. Although we would love to see such futuristic robots and computational power, it might be a bit hasty to consider transferring ones’ brain to a machine just two years in the future. Do you want to be immortal? Would you be willing to live a s a robot? And most importantly, would you invest in this project?Leave a comment and tell us how do you see the future of human longevity. • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Chapter 2: Roomba 500 Series Maintenance Robot Combat League, or Real Steel for Real 2013 Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon Announced All Sciences Lead to Robotics Vehicle Speed, RPM, and Wheel Diameter Finder

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RobotShop Feeds In This Issue... Chapter 2: Roomba 500 Series Maintenance More Recent Articles Search RobotShop Blog Chapter 2: Roomba 500 Series Maintenance Maintaining your Roomba is very important. Here is a video for a suggested routine maintenance for your Roomba 500 to 700 series. This cleaning can be done after every few cleaning cycles depending on your environment. If your Roomba 500 series is not working properly, we would recommend to clean your robot as suggested in the following video. Some of the 500 series Roombas are pictured below: Get ready for a cleaning! • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Robot Combat League, or Real Steel for Real 2013 Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon Announced All Sciences Lead to Robotics Vehicle Speed, RPM, and Wheel Diameter Finder Unit Conversion Tool

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