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Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the Venice Lagoon (CoCoRo Video #50/52)

Thomas Schmickl 15 Dec 2015

Our underwater swarm research started in a few cubic centimeters of water with some naked electronics on a table. Over the next three and a half years, our swarm increased by a factor of 40, and ...

How many axes does my robot need?

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc. 09 Dec 2015

Anyone who has been in robotics long enough is eventually tasked with figuring out how many axes they will need for their robot. Most robots have somewhere between three and seven axes, but how d...

How to get started (and progress) in robotics: A quick guide for teens and adults

Robots for Roboticists 09 Dec 2015

I get many questions from people about how I think kids and adults should get started in robotics, how they should progress, and what they should buy, to learn about robotics. This is a quick guide t...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #49/52: Base stations

Thomas Schmickl 08 Dec 2015

During the past year we have shown many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlight was always on the Lily and the Jeff robots. However, there is now another star in the team and this tr...

Simple robots, complex behaviors: A control systems perspective on Braitenberg Vehicles

Brian Douglas 03 Dec 2015

In this lecture series, controls expert Brian Douglas walks you through key concepts in control system theory. Focused on making control theory accessible and intuitive, this series is for anyone who ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops

Thomas Schmickl 01 Dec 2015

Most of the videos from The Year of CoCoRo were shot during workshops we held throughout the project. These workshops, which were usually focussed on one or several specific demonstrators, were wha...

How to calculate a robot’s forward kinematics in 5 easy steps

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 25 Nov 2015

Calculating the forward kinematics is often a vital first step to using a new robot in research. While there are some good tutorials available online, up until now there hasn't been a simple step-by-s...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show

Thomas Schmickl 24 Nov 2015

In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT -- Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be overshad...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling

Thomas Schmickl 17 Nov 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...

Phiro is a smart robot that lets kids learn to code 5 different ways

Deepti Suchindran 16 Nov 2015

Just like reading, writing and arithmetic, problem solving and innovative thinking are essential 21st century skills our children need. Research shows that one of the most effective ways for kids to l...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #45/52: Swarm control

Thomas Schmickl 10 Nov 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #44/52: Lily shoaling

Thomas Schmickl 03 Nov 2015

Cannybots: Smart toy cars for play and learning

Anish Mampetta 30 Oct 2015

Cannybots are smart toy cars that introduce kids to programming, 3D-printing, robotics and AI, through play. They can be controlled and programmed from a phone or tablet to drive around, or to pla...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching

Thomas Schmickl 27 Oct 2015

Liatris: looking to change how robots see the world

Mark Silliman 20 Oct 2015

Fully autonomous robotics could be developed today if objects could tell a robot what they are, their purpose and how to utilize them. Liatris is a new open source project built with ROS. Its objectiv...

The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud

Ricardo Téllez 20 Oct 2015

The Construct is a Barcelona based startup created to simplify the simulation of robots. The goal is to allow anybody to simulate complex robots and environments with minimal knowledge, without having...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #42/52: Murky waters

Thomas Schmickl 20 Oct 2015

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The Open Academic Robot Kit, with Raymond Sheh

Ron Vanderkley 16 Oct 2015

Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Raymond Sheh, who is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing at Curtin University and head of the Intelligent Robots Group....

Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini

Jibo 14 Oct 2015

Finding the right approach to automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a critical step in Jibo’s design: get it right and the experience will be great; get it wrong, and it could really take awa...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #41/52: Metacognition

Thomas Schmickl 13 Oct 2015

In-situ Fabricator: An autonomous construction robot

NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB) 09 Oct 2015

Digital fabrication enables the seamless combination of digital design with physical construction processes. To fully exploit this emerging technology within architecture, robotic fabrication must be ...

Work, play and STEM: How robotics will bridge the gap

Ricky Ye 08 Oct 2015

As advancements to how we approach STEM education and initiatives are on the rise around science, engineering and mathematics, we’re seeing a greater impact on how we recognize children’s developm...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #40/52: Adaptive layers water column

Thomas Schmickl 06 Oct 2015

Gazebo rendering abstraction

Open Source Robotics Foundation 30 Sep 2015

During his internship with OSRF, Mike Kasper developed a new ignition-robotics rendering library. The key feature of this library is that it provides an abstract render-engine interface for building ...

Push, pull, nudge: The control challenge of non-prehensile robotic manipulation

Brian Douglas 29 Sep 2015

In this new lecture series, controls expert Brian Douglas walks you through key concepts in control system theory. Focused on making control theory accessible and intuitive, this series is for anyo...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #39/52: Adaptive layers in a pool

Thomas Schmickl 29 Sep 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #38/52: BEECLUST

Thomas Schmickl 22 Sep 2015

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