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Curiosity update with Scott Maxwell
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/AVqsV4rQ4bE
Would you like to watch Curiosity pile up sand behind its wheels as it struggles up a slope, this video is about as close as you're likely to get, at least until Curiosity...
Mahoro performs dangerous lab work
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/-Stz0pATsXc
A two-armed robot, called Mahoro, jointly developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST) and Yaskawa Electric Corporation, and marketed ...
The Robot Report startup map
Andra Keay
07 Jul 2012
Frank Tobe’s ‘The Robot Report’ has just launched a great map of global robot startups and he’d like your robot startup information…
Please add to our list of global robotic start-up compan...
2012 Boca Bearing innovation contest
John Payne
06 Jul 2012
Direct from their website...To celebrate their 25th year in business the Boca Bearing Company is giving away over $20,000 in cash and prizes as part of their 2012 Boca Bearing Innovation Contest. Winn...
TE+ND Rover in Boca Bearings competition
John Payne
05 Jul 2012
In case you've forgotten, this video provides a clear explanation of the concept behind and the mechanical workings of the TE+ND Rover.
For more, check out their page on the com...
Field Robot Event 2012 in video
John Payne
05 Jul 2012
The first video in this playlist is a presentation given last year at the announcement of the event. The rest were taken at the event itself, and show the nature of the competition as well a...
SoftWear Automation awarded $1.25 million DARPA contract
John Payne
29 Jun 2012
SoftWear Automation, the latest in a string of ventures founded by Steve Dickerson - a retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology - and nurtu...
Tovbot’s Shimi at Google I/O
John Payne
29 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/s6bs1rrOwxo
Tovbot's Shimi made its first public appearance two days ago at Google I/O, where not just one but three Shimis performed in perfect coordination. Tovbot was formed earlie...
10th annual Field Robot Event underway
John Payne
28 Jun 2012
This year's Field Robot Event (FRE 2012) began today and runs through Saturday. I will bring together what reports I am able to find once the dust settles, but meanwhile you can view videos from past ...
Quadrotor light show
John Payne
27 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/cseTX_rW3uM
This video is a performance piece incorporating a troupe of 16 quadrotors. It's a very nice way to spend a few minutes....
USC researchers make SynTouch BioTac perform
John Payne
21 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/ksTlfklav-k
Researchers at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering have succeeded in making an artificial fingertip outperform humans in identifying a ra...
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.
...
2012 Field Robot Event, June 28th – 30th
John Payne
16 Jun 2012
This will be the 10th edition of the Field Robot Event. Organized by Fontys University of Applied Sciences and Wageningen UR (University & Research), it will be held in Venlo, The Nether...
EPFL aerial crash recovery
John Payne
15 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/GgdI0oiPY0s
Researchers at EPFL, in Switzerland, have developed an aerial system which absorbs the energy of low-speed collisions, rights itself, and resumes flying....
Three-fingered hand with one actuator
John Payne
15 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/3IY8dz5EaAY
Japanese company DOUBLE Research and Development has developed a three-fingered robotic hand using a single pressure sensor and a single actuator. The linkage through whi...
Joggobot will keep you moving
John Payne
15 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/4x4d8IX_0kI
Researchers at the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have created a robot to support you while exercising. Joggobot is a modified version of th...
Robotic zebrafish influences real fish
John Payne
14 Jun 2012
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in the U.S. and the Instituto Superiore di Sanitá in Italy have created a robotic zebrafish that can mix with real zebrafish and influe...
Robot Launchpad Grand Challenge 2012
Andra Keay
04 Jun 2012
It’s our turn for a Grand Challenge! The prize will be a successful million dollar business. The catch is you build it yourself. The rules? Well, you don’t need to be a robot scientist to do it. Y...
Robert J. Wood interview
John Payne
03 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/WGR3SqPrOYs
Robert J. Wood (see also), Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Core Member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Universit...
Floating Sensor Network: putting water online
John Payne
01 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/2Qq4mGAMdOw
The above video was posted one day prior to a major, much-publicized experiment, tracing water movement in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta, which is prone ...
MIT’s Cheetah acquires new gates
John Payne
31 May 2012
http://youtu.be/U5_OUfCPZd0
In early March, Boston Dynamics posted a video (shown below) showing the Cheetah robot they are developing for DARPA running at 18 miles per hour (a new record for a robot...
Juggling two balls with one hand & fast vision
John Payne
31 May 2012
http://youtu.be/vnDwvsVk_nc
Also presented recently at ICRA, Takahiro Kizaki and Akio Namiki from the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in Japan demonstrated a system comprised of a ...
Aggressive flight using laser scanner, IMU, & 3D map
John Payne
30 May 2012
http://youtu.be/VUeKKvKEvYI
Evan Ackerman, writing for IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog, saysResearchers at MIT CSAIL have decided that slow and obstacle-free flight is boring, so they’ve come up wit...
Catching up with robots
John Payne
28 May 2012
http://youtu.be/UpyKt6mClVA
The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform fo...
Ingredients for autonomous construction
Sabine Hauert
28 May 2012
Most research in robotics focuses on a specific problem: building better hardware, implementing new algorithms, or demonstrating a new task. Combining all these state-of-the-art ingredients into a sin...
TE+ND Rover Indiegogo campaign
John Payne
27 May 2012
http://youtu.be/UskGhoF8Udc
TE+ND (Terrestrial Exploration + Nurture Designed) Rovers are an interactive art project that explore migratory ecology in an era of climate change. The designers are sol...
Hexy the Hexapod on Kickstarter
John Payne
24 May 2012
Hexy the Hexapod is a Kickstarter project to fund production of an affordable hexapod design by Arcbotics. The $13000 minimum goal has already been met, but there are higher goals for the addition of ...
ROSCon 2012: Keynote cont. (part 2 of 2)
John Payne
24 May 2012
http://youtu.be/3wnab6AjAwc
This is the continuation/conclusion of Morgan Quigley's keynote address at ROSCon 2012. Part 2 of 2.
(Duration 42:05)...
ROSCon 2012: Keynote (part 1 of 2)
John Payne
24 May 2012
http://youtu.be/-E1O98qrfBY
ROSCon 2012 Keynote, by Morgan Quigley, with introduction by Brian Gerkey, Part 1 of 2.
(Duration 23:46) Post revised 08Aug2012....
Cali Lewis in robot heaven
John Payne
23 May 2012
http://youtu.be/yTHVR4Zh6yg
If you enjoy Cali Lewis's refreshing style, and you like robots, then Cali going gaga over robots during the first few hours of her recent trip to Japan is sure to be a fu...
PolyPlus: the future of batteries
John Payne
23 May 2012
http://youtu.be/sutiW1Dclhc
Founded in 1990, PolyPlus began operations in 1991, based on work previously done at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on lithium/organosulfur (Li-S) batteries. The Li...
TurtleBot 2 at ROSCon
John Payne
21 May 2012
http://youtu.be/P27Vj7E2FoU
This video introduces TurtleBot 2, which was shown this past weekend at ROSCon 2012. TurtleBot 2, built around an iClebo Kobuki from Korean firm Yujin Robot, improves upon...
Exhibits at ICRA 2012
John Payne
21 May 2012
http://youtu.be/q6MZV88AvXo
The above video, posted to IEEE Spectrum's YouTube channel, shows a sampling of the exhibits that were there to be seen at ICRA 2012 (May 14-18), with a few scenes taken f...
Open source robotics foundation announced
John Payne
17 May 2012
Announced via the Willow Garage website, the Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. (OSRF) is an independent non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Its mission is ...
Paralyzed woman finishes London Marathon
John Payne
17 May 2012
http://youtu.be/hUbtyeAeBB0
While it took her 16 days to do it, Claire Lomas, who lost use of her legs in a 2007 accident, finished the London Marathon with the aid of a ReWalk powered exoskeleton fr...
Coming soon to a salon near you
John Payne
03 May 2012
http://youtu.be/IROoXFz5dj0
While Panasonic's legal department may be cringing at the prospect, this shampoo-bot appears to be headed straight for market, where it can relieve busy stylists from the ...
