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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