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A set of machine-readable instructions (most often in the form of a computer program) that directs a computer's processor to perform specific operations.

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Why is analysis required to study robotics?

The short answer is that learning robotics is easier with the math than without. Here are a few areas of robotics and the field of mathematics that make them manageable: Measuring data from senso …
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I need a software that will help me track passage and identify fish in clear water

The main difficulty of using openCV to classify fish underwater involves lighting. Even in clear water, the amount of available light varies wildly with depth, cloud cover, sun position, etc. Fish p …
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King Robota: Does he speak for himself?

Not only is a human voice behind this (likely through a vocoder), I believe you are looking at a mechanized costume and not an actual robot -- someone is inside. Using fake robots to attract crowds …
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How does a robot efficiently store a map it makes?

The world is always bigger than the robot's memory can hold (it's bigger than your memory can hold, too). There are 2 ways to reduce the space that you need. The first is to consider whether you nee …
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Should you learn assembly language for robotics?

I think the answer here is "that's the wrong question". (It's a bit like asking "what spoken language should I learn if I want to write detective novels?") But it does have an answer: it depends. I …
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Can you have a career in robotics if you hate mechanics?

Working in robotics doesn't mean that you must understand (or enjoy) all the relevant disciplines. It simply means that you must understand that you are one part of a team that produces a robotic sys …
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Software libraries for parsing sensor data

YACC and Lex to the rescue. They are exactly what you ask for: "a general purpose datagram parsing library". Bytes go in one end, and structured data comes out the other end. You are responsible fo …
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Robots without microcontrolers (beam robots). Are they technologically limited?

BEAM robots are generally simple circuits that exhibit some emergent behavior that (superficially) mimics biological behavior. Generally speaking, there is no hard criteria for what a BEAM robot must …
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