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How Robots Work
 R2D2 (Star Wars)
 Industrial Robots
 Data (Star Trek)
 Mars Rover (NASA)
 HAL (Movie: “2001”)
 Robomower
 LEGO Robotics Kits
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How Hydraulics Works
Produce
Force
(900 lbs)
Pistons
A = πr2
Cylinders
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Robotic Arm
end
effector
 How Articulated Robot Arms Work
 BMW Berlin Plant
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Robotic Hand
Robotic Hand Demo
Awesome Robot Ride
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Mobile Robots
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Homebrew Robots
 Battlebots
 Robocup
 RoboCup is a an international joint project to foster AI and intelligent
robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide
range of technologies can be integrated and examined.
 GOAL: By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous
humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer
champion team.
 Great Goalkeeping
 Rovio
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Robots and Artificial Intelligence
 Solving Rubrick’s Cube
 Robot Housekeeper
 MIT Friendly Robot
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Artificial Intelligence at the Movies
 2001: A Space
Odyssey
 AI
 Bicentennial Man
 Blade Runner
 Demon Seed
 The Matrix
 Short Circuit
 The Terminator
 Westworld
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