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The Year of CoCoRo Video #52/52: Final Demonstration
Thomas Schmickl
05 Jan 2016
In our final video we demonstrate the entire CoCoRo system communicating and interacting together, including: the base station, a "relay-chain" swarm, and a search swarm on the ground....
The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
CIS Blog
30 Dec 2015
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. ...
Using drones in wine making
Waypoint
28 Dec 2015
In 2014, viticulturist William Metz was granted a fellowship by the Villa d’Este Wine Symposium to spend a full year evaluating the potential applications of drones in wine making — a project t...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision
Thomas Schmickl
22 Dec 2015
Our penultimate video features the initial "Big Vision" trailer we produced at the beginning of this project. The video showcases the basic components of the robotic system we targeted (surface st...
Evaluating what’s easy and what’s hard to automate in your workshop
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc.
17 Dec 2015
If you haven’t already introduced a robot into your workshop, or if you are in the process of introducing such a device, you may be wondering … what is the best place to start? What is easy and wh...
Configuring multiple USB devices: An alternative to udev
Robots for Roboticists
16 Dec 2015
Every time I need to add multiple USB devices to a computer I get nervous and dread the architecture. The problem is that when a computer boots it automatically brings up USB devices in whatever order...
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 --Â 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...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #45/52: Swarm control
Thomas Schmickl
10 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...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #44/52: Lily shoaling
Thomas Schmickl
03 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...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching
Thomas Schmickl
27 Oct 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...
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
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 CooRo – we...
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
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 CooRo – we...
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 ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #40/52: Adaptive layers water column
Thomas Schmickl
06 Oct 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 CooRo – we...
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 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 CooRo – we...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #38/52: BEECLUST
Thomas Schmickl
22 Sep 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 CooRo – weâ€...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #37/52: Combined scenario two
Thomas Schmickl
15 Sep 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 CooRo – we...
Morphological computation: The hidden superpower of soft-bodied robots
Helmut Hauser and Adriana Hamacher
10 Sep 2015
Soft robots are versatile, often much safer, more energy-efficient, robust and resilient than their more rigid counterparts. But one of the biggest challenges facing soft robotics is control - often, ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #36/52: Relay swarm
Thomas Schmickl
08 Sep 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...
CoCoRo: Tracking the development of the world’s largest autonomous underwater swarm
Thomas Schmickl
04 Sep 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built the world’s largest swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout the first half ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication
Thomas Schmickl
01 Sep 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...
Evolved virtual creatures as content
Dan Lessin
28 Aug 2015
Do you like cat videos? Or maybe you prefer golden eagles hunting goats by throwing them off cliffs? Or perhaps you favor strange new life forms, recently discovered at the bottom of the Pacific? Wha...
Removing steps of common processes
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
27 Aug 2015
Being able to control the moment when concrete turns from liquid to solid is crucial for digitally fabricated concrete structures. The timing of this process can be controlled by tuning the chemistry ...
