关键词： 机器人教学   信息技术课堂   可行性   开放性思维   机器人竞赛   智能机器人   教学实践   活动主题  

摘要： 国外机器人教学实践证明，机器人竞赛不仅活动主题有趣，而且其问题解决方案是开放性的，学生可以用不同的方法达到同一个目标．因而智能机器人活动能激发学生充分发挥想像力、创造力，有利于培养学生的开放性思维。在机器人教学中，学生通过动手实践获取知识，他们就像真正的工程师一样，针对项目主题进行研究、策划、设计、组装和测试。

关键词： 青少年科技创新大赛   机器人   宁夏   竞赛   中国   展览中心   活动中心   平罗县  

摘要： 4月12～13日，第29届宁夏青少年科技创新大赛暨第14届中国青少年机器人（宁夏赛区）竞赛在宁夏平罗县文化展览中心举行。本届创新大赛由自治区科协、教育厅、科技厅和环保厅联合主办，平罗县政府、宁夏青少年科技活动中心承办，主题为“创新·体验·成长”。

关键词： 电脑机器人   竞赛活动   湖南省   中小学   长沙   师范学院   电化教育   开幕式  

摘要： 5月24日-25日，第十一届湖南中小学电脑机器人竞赛活动在湖南省第一师范学院第二附属小学举行。湖南省电化教育馆馆长陈德平、书记吴果夫、工会主席缪高勇，湖南省第一师范学院第二附属小学副校长章醇出席了开幕式。

关键词： 青少年   机器人   竞赛   教育  

摘要： 青少年机器人竞赛越来越受到社会、学校、家长和青少年的关注,机器人教育也越来越受到重视。青少年机器人竞赛对机器人教育起着推动和促进的作用,其创新性和实践性具有广阔的发展前景。从机器人竞赛这一角度,分析其发展现状,探讨对机器人教育影响的一些主要问题。

关键词： Odico Formwork Robotics   Robotic Hotwire Cutting (RHWC)   CNC-milling processes   ABB robots   concrete industry   PyRAPID   BladeRunner research   Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation   Opticut pilot project   Arhus Bay   Jean Prouve  

关键词： Mobile robotics   Cloud-based approaches   Computer Thinking  

摘要： Mobile robotics is a transforming field that presents a varying set of challenges. The discussion on the autonomy of (self-powered) robots is not settled, and as the communication infrastructure evolves, centralized concepts become more attractive over distributed concepts. This paper presents the CloudThinking architecture applied to intelligent cloud-based robotic operation. CloudThinking offloads most of complex robotic tasks to a central cloud, which retrieves inputs from the environment as a whole in order to instruct the robots to perform its actions. CloudThinking is a natural approach to the orchestration of multiple specialized robotic systems, defining the best mechanisms for reaching a goal. Furthermore, this architecture provides a set of automatic features which can be useful for application developers. These features can fully exploit novel cloud tools development as it becomes available, providing a time-resilient infrastructure of easy upgrade. The resulting approach has the potential to create a different set of market for robotic application developers.

关键词： General surgery   minimally invasive surgery   robot surgery  

摘要： Since its introduction, robotic surgery has been rapidly adopted to the extent that it has already assumed an important position in the field of general surgery. This rapid progress is quantitative as well as qualitative. In this review, we focus on the relatively common procedures to which robotic surgery has been applied in several fields of general surgery, including gastric, colorectal, hepato-biliary-pancreatic, and endocrine surgery, and we discuss the results to date and future possibilities. In addition, the advantages and limitations of the current robotic system are reviewed, and the advanced technologies and instruments to be applied in the near future are introduced. Such progress is expected to facilitate the widespread introduction of robotic surgery in additional fields and to solve existing problems.

关键词： minimally invasive surgery   robotic surgery  

摘要： The debate over the role of the da Vinci surgical robotic platform in benign gynecology is raging with increasing fervor and, as product liability issues arise, greater financial stakes. Although the best currently available science suggests that, in the hands of experts, robotics offers little in surgical advantage over laparoscopy, at increased expense, the observed decrease in laparotomy for hysterectomy is almost certainly, at least in part, attributable to the availability of the robot. In this author's opinion, the issue is not whether the robot has any role but rather to define the role in an institutional environment that also supports the safe use of vaginal and laparoscopic approaches in an integrated minimally invasive surgery program. Programs engaging robotic surgery should have a clear and self-determined regulatory process and should resist pressures in place that may preferentially support robotics over other forms of minimally invasive surgery.

关键词： Visual servoing   uncalibrated camera   robotic manipulators   sliding mode control   switching adaptation  

摘要： This paper addresses the visual servoing control problem for robot manipulators without using velocity measurements, and considering a fixed but uncalibrated camera with an optical axis perpendicular to the robot workspace. A novel visual servoing strategy via sliding mode control (SMC) and a monitoring function based switching scheme is presented to deal with the uncertainties in the camera calibration parameters and to remove any restriction on the unknown camera orientation angle. The developed method provides global stability, disturbance rejection properties, and exact output tracking with better transient performance than adaptive controllers. Experimental results illustrate the robustness and practical feasibility of the proposed scheme.

关键词： Hyperbody   RDM Vault   Rotterdam   Frank Lloyd Wright   Filippo Brunelleschi   Jean Prouvé   ABB's RAPID   Kuka's KRL   Staübli's VAL3   CAD geometry   ROB Technologies   RoboFold   designtoproduction   1:One   CASE   CNC fabrication   Gramazio & Kohler   Gantenbein vineyard facade   BrickDesign tool   Rhino? plug-in   Keller AG Headquarters   Arum installation   Zaha Hadid Architects   Philippe Block   ‘Common Ground’ Venice Architecture Biennale   Odico Formwork Robotics   Siemens Wind Power   Delft University of Technology   Dirk Vander Kooij   FANUC robot   Bernard Cache   Objectile   Bill Massie   Big Belt house   Machineous   Chrysler   ‘third industrial revolution’   Leon Battista Alberti  

摘要： What do Odico Formwork Robotics, RoboFold, Machineous, ROB Technologies and GREYSHED share in common? They are all architectural robotics startups. Jelle Feringa, Chief Technology Officer at Odico, places the phenomenon of the architectural robotics entrepreneur in a historical and cultural context while highlighting the very practical role startups are poised to play in bridging the gap between academic research and industry, by providing the building industry with much needed new software tools.