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Short CoCoRo AUV swarm underwater video
Thomas Schmickl
16 Jul 2014
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior”
Nathan Labhart
10 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17
In this guest lecture, Josh Bongard from the University of Vermont (USA) and co-author of How the body shapes the way we think (MIT Press), talks ab...
ROS 101: Drive a Grizzly!
Clearpath Robotics
03 Jul 2014
So you have had a taste of driving a virtual Husky in our previous tutorial, but now want to try something a little bigger? How about 2000 lbs bigger?...
ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”
Nathan Labhart
03 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10
In this guest lecture, Koh Hosoda from Osaka University, Japan, talks about human and humanoid intelligence, movement, and bouncing, and introduces t...
ShanghAI Lectures: Barry Richards and Craig Turnbull “Robotics and Automation Applied to the Aircraft Industry”
Nathan Labhart
26 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10
In this guest lecture, Craig Turnbull and Barry Richards from Electroimpact talk about robots in aircraft manufacturing....
ShanghAI Lectures: Olivier Michel “Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots”
Nathan Labhart
19 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10
This presentation introduces Cyberbotics Ltd. with a little bit of history (where it came from), then it presents the Webots software that allows res...
ShanghAI Lectures: Fabio Bonsignorio “Embodied Finance: Embodying Disruptive Innovation in Embodied Cognitive Systems”
Nathan Labhart
12 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03
In this guest lecture, Fabio Bonsignorio from University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, talks about issues with innovation and robotic startup companie...
ShanghAI Lectures: Claude Patrick Siegenthaler “In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets”
Nathan Labhart
05 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03
In this guest lecture, Claude Patrick Siegenthaler from Switzerland gives a brief introduction to economics and markets and relates them to intellige...
ShanghAI Lectures: Toshiyuki Nakagaki “How does an amoeba tackle a maze?”
Nathan Labhart
01 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-27
In this guest lecture, Toshiyuki Nakagaki from Future University Hakodate, Japan, talks about his experiments with true slime mold and its abilities ...
Arduino-powered balancing robot for education, hacking and fun
Chris Hakim
23 May 2014
Lil’Bot is an Arduino Uno compatible balancing robot designed as a low-cost teaching vehicle and experimentation platform. Just like an Arduino board, it takes various shields for added functionalit...
ShanghAI Lectures: Minoru Asada “Cognitive Developmental Robotics”
Nathan Labhart
22 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20
In this guest lecture, Minoru Asada from Osaka University, Japan, talks about combining developmental psychology, neuroscience, and robotics into “...
30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk
Nathan Labhart
21 May 2014
Source: University of Zurich Mediadesk
Watch Rolf Pfeifer’s farewell lecture at the University of Zurich, broadcasting live on Robohub Friday May 23, 2014 (18:00–19:30 CEST/16:00–17:30 UTC).
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ShanghAI Lectures: Yukie Nagai “What should robots learn from caregiver-infant interaction?”
Nathan Labhart
15 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20
In this guest lecture, Yukie Nagai from Osaka University, Japan, talks about teaching infants and robots, attention, and scaffolding....
Mirobot: An open source WiFi robot for kids
Ben Pirt
14 May 2014
Mirobot is a robotics kit that's designed to get kids more interested in technology, engineering and programming. Children solder and build it themselves, and then can use a drag-and-drop programming...
ShanghAI Lectures: Alan Spreckley “Robotic Automation in Manufacturing”
Nathan Labhart
08 May 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-13
This talks provides a summary of the current and future market places, key application areas, history of robotics and future trends....
CloudSim-Ed: A robotics MOOC prototype
Open Source Robotics Foundation
30 Apr 2014
CloudSim-Ed from OSRF.
During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Ana Marian Pedro worked on CloudSim-Ed a prototype for a massive open online robotics course built with Goog...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 10 – Future Trends
Fabio Bonsignorio
28 Apr 2014
This week we publish the tenth and last of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub. We have been releasing a new lecture from this series on Monday for several weeks and this is the last one....
ShanghAI Lectures: Simon Grand “Building Intelligent Companies: Enterpreneurial Management and Design Principles”
Nathan Labhart
24 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-11-18
In this guest lecture, Simon Grand from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, talks about building intelligent companies....
ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”
Nathan Labhart
17 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-11-18
Sensorimotor interaction between an agent and its environment seems to be the key ingredient to develop intelligent behaviour. In this talk, the impo...
ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”
Nathan Labhart
10 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-10-21
In this guest presentation, Patrick van der Smagt talks about biomimetic approaches to robot control, kinematics, grasping, and ways to use the human...
Transportation 2025 and beyond: Discussion with Rodney Slater
CIS Blog
09 Apr 2014
In this discussion moderated by Stanford's Bryant Walker Smith, the Honorable Rodney Slater talks about the opportunities, challenges and best pathways for successful transportation innovation and pol...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 9 – Towards a theory of intelligence
Fabio Bonsignorio
07 Apr 2014
Lecture 9: Towards a theory of intelligence
This lecture, which I hosted at the the University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), suggests principles and design guidelines for the development of embodied ...
We Robot 2014 livestream
Robohub Editors
04 Apr 2014
Watch the live stream from the We Robot 2014 conference in Miami....
ShanghAI Lectures: Rafael Núñez “Where mathematics comes from’”
Nathan Labhart
03 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
In this guest lecture, Rafael Núñez from the University of California, San Diego, USA, talks about Mathematics as a paradox for embodiment and cog...
ShanghAI Lectures: Nikolaos Mavridis “Robots, language, and social networks”
Nathan Labhart
27 Mar 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
The lecture starts with a short introduction to the Interactive Robots and Media Lab and the United Arab Emirates. Then, it continues by exploring so...
Six weeks to build a robot: A FIRST photo essay
Lynn Urbina
26 Mar 2014
This photo essay documents the Girls of Steel as they built their newest robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) division. Teams are given the parameters of the game and have just six weeks t...
ROS 101: Drive a Husky!
Clearpath Robotics
21 Mar 2014
In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the out all the previous...
ShanghAI Lectures: Louis-Philippe Demers “Embodiment and robotic arts”
Nathan Labhart
21 Mar 2014
The Blind Robot by Louis-Philippe Demers is a reference to the works of Merleau-Ponty and his example of the body extension of the blind man’s cane, where the cane not only senses the world but also...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session
Fabio Bonsignorio
18 Mar 2014
Lecture 8-II: Education and Industry Session
This lecture hosted by Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, is about higher education and industrial impact of the ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Tamim Asfour “Robots think with their hands”
Nathan Labhart
13 Mar 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
The design of cognitive situated robots able to learn to operate in the real world and to interact and communicate with humans, must model and reflec...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-I – Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition
Fabio Bonsignorio
10 Mar 2014
Lecture 8-I: Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition
In this lecture, hosted at the University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, I show how it is possible to ground ‘understanding...
ShanghAI Lectures: Shuhei Miyashita “Tribolon: Scalable Self-Assembling Robots”
Nathan Labhart
06 Mar 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-02
Self-assembly is of crucial importance in the biological realm at all scales. This talk introduces a series of self-assembling robots developed in ou...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 7 – Design principles of intelligent systems
Fabio Bonsignorio
03 Mar 2014
This week we publish the seventh of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub. You can learn more about the ShanghAI lectures here.
Lecture 7 - Design principles of intelligent systems
Thi...
EVE: An ultimate frisbee playing robot
Lynn Urbina
28 Feb 2014
Being a member of FIRST Team 3504, The Girls of Steel, has been an amazing experience: I have built robots with my teammates, gone to international competitions, and have had great time. We recently ...
New book on disaster robotics
Robohub Editors
25 Feb 2014
A new book by MIT's Robin Murphy documents the use and performance of tactical ground, aerial, or marine robots at 34 incidents between 2001 and 2013....
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 6 – Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration II
Fabio Bonsignorio
24 Feb 2014
Lecture 6 - Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration II
In this second lecture hosted by the Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Matteo Cianchetti builds on the previous lecture to talk about building soft actuato...
