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    Recap from International Robotics Week
    It was the event we have worked towards since the founding of RoboValley: the International Robotics Week. Last week, we were able to show the whole world what RoboValley has built in the past years a...
    26 April 2017, by

    DroneClash: Delft University of Technology organising first anti-drone race
    To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 4 December the TU Delft Micro Air Vehicle Lab (MAVLab) will host the first ever anti-drone competition: D...
    29 March 2017, by

    Schiaparelli, are you there? The high risks of space robotics again crash home
    In Darmstadt, Germany, European Space Agency (ESA) teams are scrambling to confirm contact with the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), Schiaparelli—the spectre of Philae still hau...
    20 October 2016, by

    Drone learns to see in zero-gravity
    During an experiment performed on board of the International Space Station (ISS) a small drone successfully learned by itself to see distances using only one eye, reported scientists at the 67th Inter...
    03 October 2016, by
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    Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon

    Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
    01 May 2016, by

    AI, deep learning and 3D printing produce ‘The Next Rembrandt’
    From the Smithsonian comes news - and a must-see fascinating video - about a painting created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt's work, trained to paint in Rembrandt's signature...
    08 April 2016, by



    Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games
    Embed from Getty Images Machines have been beating humans for years in games and contests: chess, Scrabble, checkers, Jeopardy! and more recently, the Chinese board game Go. Google's AI machi...
    17 March 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Machine learning in healthcare and the AlphaGo matches
    In episode five of season two, Ryan walks us through variational inference. We put some listener questions about Go and how to play it to Andy Okun, president of the American Go Association (who is in...
    14 March 2016, by

    To err is human: raising the bar on AI
    Last week, media outlets reported about the latest 'sure sign' of an imminent robopocalypse. Google-backed DeepMind created an AI sophisticated enough to beat a human champion in the Chinese ...
    01 February 2016, by

    How friendly is your AI? It depends on the rewards
    Two years after the small London-based startup DeepMind published their pioneering work on “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning”, they have become one of the leaders in the chase for Ar...
    08 January 2016, by , , , , and

    New insect-inspired vision strategy could hasten development of mini-drones
    New research published today in the Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics by the Micro Air Vehicle laboratory of TU Delft shows that an insect-inspired vision strategy can help indoor flying drone...
    07 January 2016, by

    Talking Machines: On ‘solving intelligence’, with DeepMind’s Nando de Freitas
    In episode fourteen we talk with Nando de Freitas. He’s a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior staff research scientist Google DeepMind. Right now he’s focusing o...
    03 July 2015, by

    Ocean-going robot fleet successfully completes fish-tracking mission
    The second phase of an ambitious project to gather valuable information on ocean processes and marine life using a fleet of innovative marine robots has just reached its conclusion. Co-ordinated by th...
    04 December 2014, by

    Philae: A proof of concept for cometary landing
    We asked Alan Winfield what the first successful landing on a comet means for the future of space mining. Find out his answer below. The successful landing of Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasim...
    01 December 2014, by

    Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae makes first ever landing on a comet
    UPDATE: ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03...
    12 November 2014, by

    Google adds to DeepMind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U
    In January, 2014, Google acquired London-based DeepMind Technologies for $643 million. Now it is adding to that purchase with two more companies, ten new hires and a substantial contribution to Oxford...
    27 October 2014, by

    ESA confirms primary landing site for Rosetta | ESA News
    ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November, in the first-ever attempt at a soft touchdown o...
    15 October 2014, by

    British National Oceanographic Centre launches major unmanned exploration mission
    Collecting oceanographic data is usually accomplished by a combination of satellites, buoys and research ships. All those methods have their limitations (e.g. buoys are only gathering info from a fixe...
    06 October 2014, by

    Artificial General Intelligence that plays Atari video games: How did DeepMind do it?
    Last December, an article named “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning” was uploaded to arXiv by employees of a small AI company called DeepMind. Two months later [tweetquote]Google bough...
    25 September 2014, by , , and

    Big deals: What it means to have the giants investing in robotics
      If the world outside the robotics community didn't know about Boston Dynamics, Kiva and Nest, they do now. Recent robotics acquisitions and investments by major-league players like Google, Apple a...
    12 February 2014, by

    AJung Moon on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”
    We have reasons to feel both excited and uneasy about giant corporations’ investment in robotics. It’s exciting for the robotics community that the giants (Google, Apple, and Amazon) are active...
    12 February 2014, by

    Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper
    The DelFly Explorer, a flapping wing MAV equipped with a 4-gram stereo vision system that can fly completely by itself in unknown, cluttered environments. © Delft University of Technology. The DelFl...
    16 December 2013, by

    What does the UK public think about robots? Sciencewise wants to know
    What does the UK public want from robotics research? What are their hopes and fears? In order to discover more about what British citizens think about robotics and other key areas of technology, Sci...
    27 August 2013, by

    Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft
    Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.Drone and a scientific crowd-sourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous spac...
    26 March 2013, by

    Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA
    ESA is organizing the first robotic competition on a mock-up of the International Space Station (ISS). The competition is open for young people from ESA member states who can compete in three age grou...
    27 February 2013, by




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