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robotics

  • Build an Autonomous FPGA Search and Rescue Vehicle

    Hello again FPGA lovers! Today’s project is a challenging one where you build an autonomous search and rescue vehicle with FPGA! The projects involves the use of 2 vehicles, where one searches for the target with the aid of an FPGA, while the other uses minimal sensory aids to follow the search beacon and rescue. The…

  • See Through the Eyes of a Robot with FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers! Today’s project focuses on a key aspect of artificial intelligence and robotics. Robotic Vision is something different from human perception and understanding this and coding for Vision with FPGA can be a great step towards building projects which depend on robotic perception and vision using FPGA. The materials needed, apart from your…

  • Build Your Own Hexapod Robot with FPGA

      Hello FPGA lovers! Today’s project is going to be a challenge on mainly 3 fronts. The Project at hand is to build a Hexapod Robot based on FPGA, and the 3 challenges are to get the Hexapod to work with FPGA, design and simulate it with CAD and to carve and glue the parts…

  • Here is How The Dark Side Got Started With Their Robot Army!

    Nowadays, you may be fed up of Star Wars jokes, baits and so on. I am sorry, I could not resist the temptation. Anyway, this time, at least, was not a joke nor a lie. Today´s article brings the real truth to you. If you want to build your own robot, as simple as you…

  • Status Update On Papilio-Based Robot Avatar Project

    Here’s a great follow-up on the progress of Duane Benson’s Papilio-based tele-presence avatar project which we covered here on the blog a little while back. Looks like he is moving forward with the overall implementation in strides. Referring to the photo above, Duane gives us the run-down from a hardware standpoint: Toward the lower-left, we…

  • Robotic Arm Controlled In Realtime Using FPGA

    FPGA and robotics enthusiast ZaIoNeL has created a grasping, clamping robotic arm that has six degrees of freedom alongside a spherical wrist for maximum dexterity. On the hardware front, he’s using a keyboard, two Altera FPGAs, two Xbee modules, power supply, and of course the robotic arm. The robo-arm project uses a couple of Altera FPGA boards…