Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Getting started

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...

10 December 2012, by Mike Hamer

TED talk with Davide Scaramuzza on visual control of MAVs

Davide Scaramuzza leads the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and is Adjunct Faculty at ETH Zurich....

29 November 2012, by Sabine Hauert

Nanoparticle transport in tumors

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...

28 November 2012, by Sabine Hauert

Tracking 3D objects in real-time using active stereo vision

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...

10 November 2012, by Sabine Hauert

Google+ Hangout extension – Arduino example

New tutorial- Get your Arduino working with Google+ Hangouts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1bdxf9tZWw Watch video on YouTube Learn more here...

27 October 2012, by RobotGrrl

Robot bootcamp episode 2: Controlllers | Trossen Robotics

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...

23 October 2012, by RobotGrrl

Rapid robot prototyping with ROS

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...

19 October 2012, by David Pietrocola

Old flutist robot

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...

03 October 2012, by RobotGrrl

Doodle bot kit from Dagu

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...

03 October 2012, by RobotGrrl

Using 3D snapshots to control a small helicopter

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 ...

30 September 2012, by Sabine Hauert

Microlecture: How to engineer a dog

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...

26 September 2012, by Markus Waibel

Soft robot gripper Instructable

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...

24 September 2012, by RobotGrrl

Robot party Google+ hangout

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!...

13 September 2012, by RobotGrrl

The “Start Here” robot

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...