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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”
Nathan Labhart
24 Mar 2013
This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, Barry Trimmer (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about so...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”
Nathan Labhart
18 Mar 2013
This is the fourth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, where Rolf Pfeifer starts introducing a set of “Design Principles” for intelligent systems, as outlined in the book “How the Body Shapes t...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”
Nathan Labhart
09 Mar 2013
In this lecture Rolf Pfeifer presents some first steps toward a “theory of intelligence”., followed by guest lectures by Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College, Greece) on computers and cognition, a...
Lynn Urbina on FIRST, Watson and the Girls of Steel
Hallie Siegel and Lynn Urbina
08 Mar 2013
A high school student by day and a power-tool-toting Maker by night, Lynn Urbina is a member of the Girls of Steel - an all-girl competitive robotics team located in Pittsburg, PA that's on a mission ...
Designed to mingle: Rezero ballbot’s smooth moves can handle a crowd
Hallie Siegel
05 Mar 2013
Designing robots that can function outside of controlled, factory environments isn’t easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to...
Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich
Nathan Labhart
03 Mar 2013
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, organizer of the ShanghAI Lectures, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big robot festival on 8 and 9 March 2013 in Zurich....
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”
Nathan Labhart
01 Mar 2013
In this 2nd part of the ShanghAI Lectures, Rolf Pfeifer looks at the paradigm “Cognition as Computation”, show its successes and failures and justifies the need for an embodied perspective. Follo...
KUKA youBot HACKATHON 2013
Wolfgang Heller
27 Feb 2013
German KUKA youBot Store has announced a new initiative to promote education in mobile manipulation. Research groups and labs in universities and public research facilities are invited to organize an ...
Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA
Ioannis K. Erripis
27 Feb 2013
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...
Flying insects and robots
Sabine Hauert
24 Feb 2013
TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 1 “Intelligence – An eternal conundrum”
Nathan Labhart
22 Feb 2013
In this first part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer gives an overview of the content and scope of the project, discusses the meaning of “Intelligence”, the Turing Test, and IQ....
Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
Markus Waibel
21 Feb 2013
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...
ManyEars: open source framework for sound processing
Sabine Hauert
08 Feb 2013
One of the latest papers in the Journal Autonomous Robots presents ManyEars, an open framework for robot audition....
Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Joystick control
Mike Hamer
04 Jan 2013
This is the second tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series.
In this tutorial we will:
Talk about the ROS communication hierarchy
Setup a joystick to work with ROS
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Robotic kit for kids
Wolfgang Heller
04 Jan 2013
The Hummingbird robotics kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 10 and up that involve the making of ...
Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Getting started
Mike Hamer
10 Dec 2012
Updated December 17th.
In this tutorial (#1) we will:
Install ROS, the AR.Drone driver and AR.Drone keyboard controller
Fly the AR.Drone using the provided keyboard controller...
TED talk with Davide Scaramuzza on visual control of MAVs
Sabine Hauert
29 Nov 2012
Davide Scaramuzza leads the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and is Adjunct Faculty at ETH Zurich....
Nanoparticle transport in tumors
Sabine Hauert
28 Nov 2012
The idea of nanorobots capable of navigating the body was popularized by the 1966 science fiction flick Fantastic Voyage. Since then, bio-engineers have imagined a variety of nanoparticles that can po...
Tracking 3D objects in real-time using active stereo vision
Sabine Hauert
10 Nov 2012
In a recent publications in the Journal Autonomous Robots, a team of researchers from the UK, Italy and France propose a new technique that allows an active binocular robot to fixate and track objects...
Google+ Hangout extension – Arduino example
RobotGrrl
27 Oct 2012
New tutorial- Get your Arduino working with Google+ Hangouts!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1bdxf9tZWw
Watch video on YouTube
Learn more here...
Robot bootcamp episode 2: Controlllers | Trossen Robotics
RobotGrrl
23 Oct 2012
Great video over at Trossen Robotics about various brains for your robot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyHlt9VBBY
Watch video on YouTube
Robot Bootcamp is our newest series and a great place t...
Rapid robot prototyping with ROS
David Pietrocola
19 Oct 2012
Open-source software is making it easier to reuse algorithms and allow engineers and researchers to focus on their problems of interest instead of reinventing the wheel for each project. Not an expert...
Old flutist robot
RobotGrrl
03 Oct 2012
It's always interesting to see robot creations from many years ago. You can learn a lot from some old ideas, and what people did when they didn't have the technology (or access to it) that we have tod...
Doodle bot kit from Dagu
RobotGrrl
03 Oct 2012
The Doodle Bot Kit from Dagu is a nice way to get beginners interested in robotics. It can write and draw messages on white board or paper. Its brains are powered by an Arduino compatible microcontrol...
Using 3D snapshots to control a small helicopter
Sabine Hauert
30 Sep 2012
In the latest article in the Autonomous Robots journal, researchers from the Australian Defense Force Academy present a new control strategy for small flying robots that uses only vision and inertial ...
Microlecture: How to engineer a dog
Markus Waibel
26 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igNZiVtbxU
The Legged Robotics Team at ETH Zurich's Autonomous Systems Lab is doing research to build fast, versatile, and efficient quadrupedal robots. Th...
Soft robot gripper Instructable
RobotGrrl
24 Sep 2012
Here is a cool find on Instructables, Soft Robots: Make An Artificial Muscle Arm And Gripper
In addition to the cool way this is created, I like how mikey77 is thinking about how this type of robot...
Robot party Google+ hangout
RobotGrrl
13 Sep 2012
Join us this week for another exciting edition of the Robot Party! Grab your robots and tell your friends, hope to see cool robots there!
Read on for more details!...
The “Start Here” robot
RobotGrrl
13 Sep 2012
Over at LetsMakeRobots.com, they have a great community of robot builders. They also have a fantastic example of how to get in to robotics, with the "Start Here" robot.
Read on for a video tutorial...
ETH summer school on soft robotics
Markus Waibel
17 Aug 2012
ETH Zurich's summer school on Soft Robotics is over. But as of today, you can have a look at the lecture videos and lecture material online!
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GA Tech’s extensive robotics program
Frank Tobe
06 Aug 2012
The Georgia Institute of Technology lays on a beautiful 400 acre campus and is a university committed to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. It also has campuses in...
Nikolaus Correll at TEDx Front Range 2012
John Payne
16 Jun 2012
University of Colorado Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll, speaking at TEDx Front Range earlier this year, outlined his vision for transforming agriculture through robotic cultivation.
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Educational robotics, with Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat and Fanny Riedo
Podcast team
23 Sep 2011
Link to audio file (35:16)In today’s show, we look at the playful field of educational robotics. We start by talking to Dr. Francesco Mondada, the leader of the MOBOTS group at EPFL, about his g...
UC Berkeley student team solving laundry problem with robots
Frank Tobe
08 Jun 2011
... The difficulties of loading a hamper of dirty clothes into a washer, transferring it to a dryer, removing and then folding all the different types of clothing and undergarments is a desired app fo...
South Korea moving ahead with R-Learning program
Frank Tobe
30 Mar 2011
... Sang-Rok Oh, KIST professor and adviser to the South Korean government for r-learning, spoke at InnoRobo, the Innovation Robotics Summit in Lyon, France and clarified the full extent of the r-lear...
