Congratulations to MiP--a partnership betwixt researchers inwards the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab at the Jacobs School in addition to toymaker WowWee--which won a Best of What's New abide by inwards the Entertainment category from Popular Science magazine. In this TV segment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the robot gives host Joe Scarborough a run for his money.
The periodical hails MiP equally the showtime self-balancing consumer robot. It goes on to say:
The device uses a ready of multiaxis gyroscopes in addition to accelerometers to rest upright. It tin response to gesture commands, zilch some corners, in addition to acquit modest items such equally a soda can, all spell remaining vertical. The best part? Users tin network upwardly to viii MiPs together for synchronized movement. Robot trip the low-cal fantastic toe party!Much of the engineering behind MiP's mightiness to residuum on 2 wheels was developed hither at the Jacobs School, atomic number 82 past times mechanical engineering scientific discipline professor Thomas Bewley.
More near MiP here and here.
As a side note, this is the mo twelvemonth that Nick Morozovsky, a Ph.D. pupil who only graduated from Bewley's lab, has a robot he worked on featured inwards Popular Science's Best of What's New. Last year, his robot SkySweeper won an award. "Being recognized 2 years inwards a row for the high-tech, but low-cost robots that we’ve been developing inwards the Coordinated Robotics Lab is awesome validation," Morozovsky said. "We bring to a greater extent than robots inwards the pipeline that bring the potential for an fifty-fifty bigger impact." Recruiters: heads-up: he is currently looking for a job!
UPDATE: MiP has been nominated for a People's Play Award. You tin vote here! Sumber http://jacobsschoolofengineering.blogspot.com/