Blog
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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 [read more]
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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 [read more]
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Syamimi and Hafiq's robot programming workshop went well
The turnout was good considering that there were parallel sessions at the same time. Syamimi, Hafiq and Beng handled the event. [read more]
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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. [read more]
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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. [read more]
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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 [read more]
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We have started with our physical lab meetings
It had been a few years we couldn’t have physical lab meetings. [read more]
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Upgraded the Raspberry Pi 4 firmware of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm
We are working on the Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm that the School of Digital Science has recently acquired. The RPi firmware that came with the NED is an older version and is not compatible with the latest version of Niryo Studio, 4.1.0. So, we [read more]
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Hafiq presented his paper at RiTA 2021
Hafiq presented his initial work in his MSc at the 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2021). The conference is a hybrid one with on-site and virtual participation. We attended the conference virtually. [read more]
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Final Robot Programming presentation for this semester
The Covid pandemic second wave hit the country at the beginning of this semester. I was stuck in how to get going with the SS-4311 Robot Programming module where the students are supposed to have fun with the physical robot. Fortunately, there are just the [read more]