I believe in different thinking, and I know that I can learn how to build robots by doing and watching.
My name is Dragos Calin, and I’m a computer and automation engineer. I enjoy building autonomous robots.
Email: dragos [at] intorobotics.com
Place of residence: Bucharest, Romania.
Note: English is not my native language, so please be patient with me and correct my errors.
Learn by doing
Knowledge isn’t a pyramid. Theory tends to be based on the pyramid model. Instead of working directly with a practical example, we are learned to start by teaching a more abstract theory from which all practical examples can be derived.
Learn by doing and watching tends to ignore the theory model, which is good, because the theories often aren’t as accurate as of the practical knowledge anyways.
Focusing on practice first, allow you to learn how you were designed to learn – by doing and watching other people.
Getting started to build autonomous robots is easier than you think. I created this website to show you real things for a specific purpose. As an example, learn to build a robot by picking a particular piece of software or electronics you want to make.
The theory builds on practice and not the other way around. If you follow this website, I promise you’ll find resources and practical projects to build autonomous robots.
A special category: Ag-Robots
The robots will transform the agriculture and how the farmers treat and work the land. I like to think that soon we will have robots able to grow healthy foods that we need to consume every day.
Many start-ups, companies, and even people involved in DIY projects (rise the hand!) aims to develop ag-bots that can move autonomously, monitoring crops, work the land, detecting and treating diseases, and saving farmers valuable time.
I create a particular category on intorobotics.com for ag-robots. In this category, you can find all the robots used in agriculture.
This blog cited as references in these books:
- Detecting and Mitigating Robotic Cyber Security Risks By Kumar, Raghavendra, Pattnaik, Prasant Kumar, Pandey, Priyanka – 2017
- Smart Universities: Concepts, Systems, and Technologies By Vladimir L. Uskov, Jeffrey P. Bakken, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain – 2018
- Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 4 By Jong-Hwan Kim, Fakhri Karray, Jun Jo, Peter Sincak, Hyun Myung, Jul 8, 2016
- Fully Autonomous Vehicles: Visions of the future or still reality? By Michael Nikowitz
epubli, Oct 12, 2015 – Science - Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects – Second Edition By Richard Grimmett
Packt Publishing Ltd, Apr 30, 2015 – Computers - Sociorobot World: A Guided Tour for All By Spyros G. Tzafestas
Springer, Jul 15, 2015 – Technology & Engineering - Raspberry Pi By Richard Grimmett
N.A (Japanese), Sep 19, 2014
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Very good resource compilation of young robotics engineers and enthusiasts thinking of using Arduino. Thank you!
Nice website! Love the content and resources.
Calin please change back the website design to previous one. This theme is annoying 🙁
I dnt feel like reading here anymore..
Dragos,
With the virus (or our governments) keeping us locked down I have become interested in building an heavy duty robot and your web site has become very helpful.
Hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy.
Hello,
I do the same, write tutorials and plan how to build a heavy duty robot for weed management.