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The Swarmbots Project The main gripper of an SBOT Arena time slots - Reserve sbot arena time SBOT hardware disassembly - videos on how to take an sbot apart and fix hardware problems HOWTO Use Fixed IP for the S-bots in IRDIA - How to use the S-bots with fixed IPs Compiling ODE, KODEX, and MISS - How to compile the open-source alternative to Vortex, ODE, a wrapper and the simulator MISS. Robot labs around the World Introduction to evolutionary robotics - Reading material for beginners (when Elio gets it done, which is probably never) The official SwarmBots webpage SBOT technical resource page - download the SBOT API and the toolchain for crosscompilation.

Software and Hardware Workstation configuration - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc. Backup Server - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA R and 3D plots - How to setup R and get it to plot experimental data in 3D. See all Software HOWTOs

General Information Moving to Brussels - Information on transport, short- and long-term accommodation. Surviving in Brussels - What you need to know once you have found a place to stay. University Administration - The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription etc.

News Toward a More Human Robot (BusinessWeek article) - Interview with Takeo Kanade. As director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001, Takeo Kanade has been one of the pioneers in the field of robotics. On the future of robotics, the US research situation and playfulness. Japanese robot to chat lonely elderly out of senility (Yahoo News) - Japan's growing elderly population from will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45-centimeter (18-inch) robot, programmed to provide just enough small talk to keep them from going senile. Army to deploy robots that shoot (News.com article) - Next year, the U.S. Army will give robots machine guns, although humans will firmly be in control of them. Read more news on robots.net... Old news

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