by Jef Mangelschots

Here is an article I posted on my web-site about the Da Vinci Surgical robot, which I was able to test drive at a demonstration in Rancho Cucamonga.

By Arthur Ed LeBouthillier

This article appeared in the February 2000 issue of The Robot Builder.

Neural Nets excite many as a possible technique for developing adaptive capable robot controllers. Although the basic idea of their operation is simple and their use is efficient, the biggest problem has been in training them. A product developed by IBM
called the Zero Instruction Set Computer (ZISC) provides hope that neural net technology might be reasonably used in robots.

By Arthur Ed LeBouthillier

This article appeared in the January 2000 issue of The Robot Builder.

by Jef Mangelschots

by Ralph Irwin

This article was published in the October 1999 issue of The Robot Builder.

by Jef Mangelschots

These are my collected notes on a presentation given by Alex Brow at the January 2010 meeting where he talked about his experience with GPS for navigation of indoor Leaf-type robots. I have added information from email threads on this same issue.

by Jef Mangelschots

On April 15 2010, I went to the USC Open House for the Robotics Lab.  

Here is a link to an article written by Jim Ubersetzig on "Casters" for an RSSC class he gave in March 2001.