Professor Ralph Hollis invented a robot with a special motor that has a very simple drive system about a decade ago called the ballbot. Fast-forward ten years and Hollis' invention called the ...
A team of UC Santa Cruz computer science and engineering (CSE) Ph.D. students won third place in the first-ever Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a university competition focused on advancing ...
Streamlining a robot's design can cut back on maintenance and repairs by eliminating any extra parts that could break. Even better, transitioning from mechanical to electronic parts simplifies design ...
Ralph Hollis, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, has been building “ballbots” — tall, thin robots that glide around on a sphere a bit smaller than a bowling ball ...
More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbot, ...
A team of UC Santa Barbara graduate students advised by computer science professors Xifeng Yan and William Wang have made their mark in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). GauchoAI placed ...
More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbot, ...