Cybert – our autonomous home robot

Cybert is an autonomous home robot built on the Cye platform from Probotics. I added a head, a voice, some additional sensors, and programmed it to wake us up in the morning! I made a number of improvements but lost my hard drive before I could get another video.

Intel’s Robot Butler Serves, Clears, and Does Dishes

Our collective dream of a Jetsons-like future is inching closer to reality with a little help from Intel, which this week showed off HERB (the Home Exploring Robot Butler) to FastCompany.com. The robotic butler, built as part of a collaboration with the Quality of Life Technology Center and Carnegie Mellon University, uses six multi-core computers along with multiple sensors to perform various tasks around the kitchen. HERB has some powerful capabilities. It can serve, toss things in the trash (or recycling), sort dishes and place them in the dishwasher, and more. But there are still plenty of issues to overcome before HERB can will be scrubbing your pots. During our demonstration, Intel programmers spent nearly 10 minutes debugging code before the HERB was finally able to grasp a container and throw it away. Once HERB got going, though, we could see a real-life robo-maid become a very distinct possibility. Check out our video below. Ariel Schwartz can be reached on Twitter …

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BYOR, Build Your Own Robot

BYOR, Build Your Own Robot

The Time Is Right:

The field of hobby robotics is more exciting today than ever before. The day when you will have a humanoid, walking, talking robot in your home that will do your cooking and cleaning looms ever closer. Short of having a real robotic maid or butler, there are many other options that can be built today on just about any budget. If you really want to enjoy a fun, reasonably priced hobby, you should try to build your own robots. There are many reasons why it makes sense create a robot from scratch rather than buying pre-made ones.

Affordable:

The technology that exists today staggers the mind in not only how advanced it has become, but also in how cheap it is to purchase. There are microcontrollers today that literally replace a room-sized computer of the previous century. The cost for such controllers can be well under 0 for a more-than-capable unit. Some can be purchased as kits to assemble and learn about computer architecture and electronics, others are pre-built units and some even come as single boards that are ready to “plug and play.”

Sensors for hobby robots have increased in functionality while they have also reduced in price. It has gotten to the point where advanced sensors like ultrasonic range detectors and infrared distance sensors even come with robotic toys like the Lego Mindstorms kits. The accuracy of these sensors is astonishing and affords the robotic hobbyist with very high-precision instruments capable of providing ample functionality on even an entry-level robot.

Programability:

It was formerly the case that many of these microcontrollers required a high-level understanding of computers, binary math and assembler language programming to operate. This restricted the field to schooled adults or older children with a great deal of mathematics background.

Today, many of these robotic products

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Benefits of the Weathermatic Smartline SL4800 Controller

Benefits of the Weathermatic Smartline SL4800 Controller

The Weathermatic Smartline SL4800 Controller is a product of “smart irrigation.” This system analyzes surrounding data from plant material, weather and other site data. Therefore, this “smart” system can determine when it is appropriate to begin irrigation and when it is time to stop. With new high-tech sensors the system can also determine when it is necessary to temporarily stop the irrigation process. The Weathermatic Smartline SL4800 Controller is a twelve-zone base model which can be expanded to 48 zones using an SLM12 twelve-zone module. The system can work indoors or outdoors and has won the Weathermatic company numerous awards and distinctions of honor.

The Weathermatic Smartline SL4800 Controller is the company’s “professional” line of product, it being far more powerful and expandable than other series like the SL800 or SL1600. Smart irrigation may indeed be fascinating to look at. Hey, remember when Rosie the Robot Maid used to do all of the Jetsons’ chores? Robotics is fun, right? However, the question is, how is this service actually useful? Especially considering that most of these models sell for a few hundred dollars brand new?

The Weathermatic Smartline SL4800 Controller is all about timing, water usage and money. Why is timing important? You well know that your time is valuable. Many hours can be spent outside tending to a lawn or garden, and in the summer or winter season, every half hour spent in extreme temperature is critical. Homeowners and business owners are always on the look out for a more efficient and effective style of water management.

The primary reason why the Weathermatic Smartline SL4800 Controller is valuable is because it can help you reduce water usage. Excessive water usage is a problem locally and environmentally on a much larger scale. The point is, using water for irrigation is not what causes this excess. It’s all the water that you don’t need, but that