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Questions related to physical robots in general should use this tag. For other topics, please use one of the more specific tags listed in the wiki of this tag, if appropriate. You may also consider asking your question on robotics stack exchange: https://robotics.stackexchange.com/.

Questions related to physical robots in general should use this tag. For other topics, please use one of the more specific tags listed in the wiki of this tag, if appropriate. You may also consider asking your question on robotics stack exchange.

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Looking for ways for a robot to locate itself in the house

I am hacking a vacuum cleaner robot to control it with a microcontroller (Arduino). I want to make it more efficient when cleaning a room. For now, it just go straight and turn when it hits something. But I have trouble finding the best algorithm or…
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excessive traffic from facebookexternalhit bot

Does anyone know how tell the 'facebookexternalhit' bot to spread its traffic? Our website gets hammered every 45 - 60 minutes with spikes of approx. 400 requests per second, from 20 to 30 different IP addresses from the facebook netblocks. Between…
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robot programming with lisp?

I'm looking for some examples of robot/AI programming using lisp. Are there any good online examples available anywhere (preferably not too academic in nature)?
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Precedence of X-Robots-Tag header vs robots meta tag

I've placed the following Header in my vhost config: Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" The goal here is to just disable search engines from indexing my testing environment. The site is Wordpress and there is a plugin installed to manage…
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Google: Disable certain querystring in robots.txt

http://www.site.com/shop/maxi-dress?colourId=94&optId=694 http://www.site.com/shop/maxi-dress?colourId=94&optId=694&product_type=sale I have thousands of URLs like the above. Different combinations and names. I also have duplicates of these URLs…
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How to program LEGO Mindstorms EV3 using C language?

First of all, I'm new for this and I need a little help! I have a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot, I downloaded (LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Home Edition) to control the EV3. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the source code for the EV3 in the mentioned software.…
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Android Camera - app passed NULL surface

Whenever I run the cam_thread I get the error "app passed NULL surface". This code supposedly works on the HTC Incredible 1. I've reconfigured it slightly to run on a droid x. However I still get this error. public class Android_Activity extends…
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Smoothing path of a robot

I'm calculating shortest path of a robot on a plane with polygonal obstacles. Everything works well and fast, no problems there. But, how to smoothen the path so it becomes curvy ? Below is a picture of a path connecting vertices with a straight…
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Guiding a Robot Through a Path

I have a field filled with obstacles, I know where they are located, and I know the robot's position. Using a path-finding algorithm, I calculate a path for the robot to follow. Now my problem is, I am guiding the robot from grid to grid but this…
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Cannot get Robot class to right click

I am trying to get the Robot class to right click on a image on the screen so that I can save it. The problem is though that I cannot seem to get the Robot to successfully simulate a right click. Here is some sample code of what I am doing. It seems…
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Are there any CRobots style games that support robots written in more than one language?

Many years ago, just as I was getting started with programming, I ran into some programming games in the style of CRobots (I don't think it actually was CRobots, but a clone of sorts) which were pretty cool to play around with. Recently I've gotten…
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Defaults for robots meta tag

If I don't specify a robots meta tag in the head of the document, the defaults are: My question is, if I only specify "noindex", is the default still "follow"? So if I specify this below, is the default…
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Microsoft Robotics: cheap but very extensible robot?

Is there any cheap and very extensible robot kit, which can work with Microsoft Robotics? I want to have a great choice of cool parts for a robot to buy. :) If where is no such robot kit which can work with MS Robotics, is there any chance to buy a…
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Using a virtual machine inside of a game?

I am in the design stage of making a 3d "robot programming" game. Inspired by games such as Colobot, Robot Odyssey, Cholo, etc. I want every robot in the game to have it's own isolated environment/operating system/virtual machine just as they…
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Deny access but allow robots i.e. Google to sitemap.xml

Is there a method where you can only allow robots such as Google, Yahoo, or other search engine robots to my sitemap which is located at http://www.mywebsite.com/sitemap.xml. Is this possible to not allow direct access by a user but only to robots?
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