robots

Potential field method : Real Robots

Potential field method is a very popular simulation for Robot Navigation. However, has anyone implemented Potential field method on real robots ? Any reference or any claim of using the method in real robots ?. ...

Running a piece of code for a certain amount of time in C#?

Hi I am working on a robot that is capable of motion detection using a webcam. I am doing this in C# The robot moves too fast, so I want to turn it on/off at short time intervals in order to reduce its speed. For example, it will start the engine then wait 0.5 second and turn it off, this cycle repeats every 2 seconds. This way, its s...

How difficult is it to write our own Robots API, similar to G Wave Robots API ? Please read the details of my query before answering.

Consider the following entities : a) My own Wave-server b) My own Robots API c) Tomcat d) Google wave server/any other wave server Let us consider that a and d interact with one another via Google wave federation protocol. Now, I want to write my own Robots API in Java (similar to that of G Wave Robots API) using which I want to crea...

Learn to Build Robots

I have knowledge with programming languages like C++, C#, Java. I have also developed various websites and other applications. Building Robots is my dream and I planning to chase it. But all that I know about Electronics (Electricals) is Electricity flows through wires. I know it will take a very long time for me to reach there. Could ...

Should I block bot*?

Hello, Bandwidth on one of our sites was severely messed with on the 28th of this month. The cpanel only tracks daily access logs and didnt archive them(it does now), using aw stats I found our bot traffic to be as follows: Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*') 91541+417 4.78 GB 28 Jul 2010 - 07:12 I have blocked bot* using htaccess: ...

How to show effectiveness of Erlang for programming Robots?

Hi all, I am currently pursuing Masters in Embedded and for my thesis I have to study the effectiveness of Erlang for programming Robot. AFAIK Erlang's declarative nature and concurrency can be effective, so I made an Erlang code for "Adaptive cruise control" which takes sensor values from C program(because Erlang can not read sensor...

does a PHP redirection affects the way a crawler or a robot views a website?

for example if in my index.php i have something like: <?php header('Location: /mypublicsite/index.php'); ?> what do the crawlers and/or robots get? just a blank page? or they actually arrive to /mypublicsite/index.php? ...

Do search engine robots read localized text from resource files?

In my asp.net mvc project all text is in resource files, and in view for text values roots to the resource file. I have english and german text. Current culture is read from cookies and rooted from global.asax. Will this work correctly with search robots or is it better to have an additional parameter value like /en/ in my url? ...

automatic redirection/geo-location and search engine optimization - Detect if its a spider that is accessing site

I have a site who's search ranking has plumetted. It should be quite SEO friendly because its built using XHtml/CSS and has been run against the SEO toolkit. The only thing I can think that may be annoying Google is The keywords are the same accross the whole site rather than being page specific. (cant see why this would be a massive ...

Dissallow robots for a while

I'm will be hosting a wordpress site on a live server. But it will be in test phase for while. How can I tell the robots not to index the site till then? ...

What languages/internet protocols for controlling robots/electronics remotely?

I wonder what languages are used in robots and electronics. Is it low level languages like Java, C, C++ etc? And if these robots and electronics could be controlled from another place, what protocol is used? It couldn't be HTTP Rest, could it? :) ...