Beng explaining the biosonar of the batbot

UBD hosted the International Workshop on Biodiversity and Bioinspiration from 9-13 Jan. The Faculty of Science (FOS), the Faculty of Integrated Technologies (FIT), the School of Digital Science (SDS) and the Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER) in collaboration with Virginia Tech (VT) co-organised the workshop. The participants visited the UBD-VT International Lab located …

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Our NAO is back alive

The battery pack of the NAO robot has “intelligent” charging circuit that prevents the battery from charging when the battery’s voltage falls below a set value. This would deem the battery useless and call for replacement. Our NAO was idle for about two years when restriction on physical activities was in place due to the …

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Teleop and digital twin of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm

The School of Digital Science has acquired a Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm. This added opportunities for us to experiment with manipulation tasks in robotic. The video below is our first project with the NED. This is a lab project by three third year students in the Bachelor of Digital Science: Firdaus, Luqman and Farah. …

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Research assistant position for human activities discovery project

We are hiring a full-time research assistant (RA) for our human activities discovery project. The work should start in Jan 2023. . The RA will implement the software system we have developed for unsupervised human activity discovery on a Turtlebot 2 mobile robot. This will involve integrating the software system alongside the Navigation stack in …

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Robotic workshop at GDG Brunei DevFest 2022

Syamimi and Haifq with a few members of Robolab will be conducting a robotic workshop at the DevFest Brunei 2022 organized by Google Developers Group (GDG) Brunei and Women Techmakers Brunei. Exploring Robot Programming with Python 👩🏽‍💻 Suitable for: Beginners and Intermediates in Robotics ⏰ Time & Room allocation: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm at …

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Logitech G920 steering wheel and pedal added to Robolab

We have gotten the Logitech G920 steering wheel and pedal for our self-driving car project. It is much more natural to drive with the steering wheel and pedal than the keyboard and mouse. It works in Carla and will be used in the data collection phase. This will be Syamimi‘s toy for a while.