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The Year of the CoCoRo Video #08/52: Lily emergent taxis
Thomas Schmickl
22 Feb 2015
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 ...
New Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in architecture and digital fabrication at ETHZ
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
19 Feb 2015
In September a new Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ETH in Architecture and Digital Fabrication will be offered by the Gramazio Kohler Research chair at ETH Zurich. This one-year, full-time program f...
Summary of the FAA’s proposed drone regulations
Diana Marina Cooper
19 Feb 2015
This past Sunday the FAA held a conference call to announce its highly anticipated small UAS (sUAS) regulations. Sunday morning might strike as odd timing, however it’s likely that the timing had t...
Sensory-motor tissues for soft robots
NCCR Robotics
18 Feb 2015
In this video, PhD student at LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics Jun Shintake explains his project "Sensory-Motor tissues for Soft Robots"....
ORIGIBOT: An affordable telepresence robotic test platform with arm and gripper
Richard Laboris and Origin Robotics
17 Feb 2015
UPDATE 30/27/15 Thanks to all our supporters - especially our partner, Robohub! We surpassed our funding goal with time to spare! Now with just days remaining, we are hoping to reach our stretch goal...
Baxter goes to Oregon, to help bring robots to the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak
Open Source Robotics Foundation
17 Feb 2015
At the end of January, Baxter left OSRF for a stint in Corvallis, Oregon where he will be used in a project that is investigating the use of teleoperated robots in the treatment of highly contagious d...
Media is more excited about farm robots than exhibitors at World Ag Expo
Frank Tobe
17 Feb 2015
The 48th annual World Ag Expo, with over 1,400 exhibitors, finished up in Tulare, California last week with little exposure to robotic game changers. Their Top 10 New Products included just one robot...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/16/15
The Federal Aviation Administration has released its proposed rules for the domestic, non-recreational use of drones weighing less than 55 lbs. USA President Obama issued a memorandum that outlines ne...
Ground-flight collaboration
NCCR Robotics
16 Feb 2015
Working in the field of rescue robotics, the Robotics Perception Group (UZH and NCCR Robotics) works on how to get air robots communicating with ground robots, with the aim of exploiting the strength...
Small UAV coalition applauds the FAA’s release of the proposed suas rule as a good first step for industry
the Small UAV Coaltion
15 Feb 2015
The Small UAV Coalition is very pleased the FAA has at long last published its proposed small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) rule. At this time the proposed rule has not been made available to the pub...
Possible Leaked FAA Document Provides Hints Regarding Proposed Rulemaking for sUAS
Diana Marina Cooper
15 Feb 2015
A new document purporting to be prepared by the FAA Office of Aviation Policy and Plans provides hints regarding the anticipated proposed small UAS (sUAS) regulations. The possible leaked document is ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #07/52: Lily flocking by slimemold
Thomas Schmickl
15 Feb 2015
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 ...
Keep Calm and Carry Passengers: UK robocar projects level up
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Feb 2015
The government-baked robocar projects in the UK are going full steam, with this press release from the UK government to accompany the unveiling of the prototype Lutz pod, which should ply the streets...
Seegrid reorganization plan okayed by judge
Frank Tobe
13 Feb 2015
A bankruptcy judge cleared the way for Seegrid to exit from Chapter 11 by okaying the reorganization plan and rejecting challenges lodged by the ex-CEO....
Call for euRathlon 2015 air/land/sea challenge now open
Marta Palau Franco
13 Feb 2015
euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition that invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima ...
Pleurobot: Multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot
NCCR Robotics
12 Feb 2015
The Pleurobot is a bioinspired robot being developed by the BioRob at EPFL and NCCR Robotics. Taking it's cues from the salamander, the Pleurobot is a walking robot that can change its gait to help it...
Robots for Humanity inspires
Andra Keay
12 Feb 2015
Henry Evans had a brain stem stroke in 2002 that left him quadriplegic. Since then he has turned to robotics to unlock his abilities. Robots For Humanity (R4H.org) is a project that chronicles Henry...
The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio
In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not just...
Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach
Talking Machines
12 Feb 2015
In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...
DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch
Open Source Robotics Foundation
11 Feb 2015
The Gazebo team has been hard at work setting up a simulation environment for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. The g...
3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community
Ben Fisher
11 Feb 2015
3D Robotics, the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, has announced its latest version of the Flight Controller App 'Tower' to the open-source community. Tower acts as a powerful ground co...
UAE launches “Robotics for Good” competition on the heals of Drones for Good success
Hallie Siegel
10 Feb 2015
Today the UAE's new International Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (iCAIR) formally announced the AI & Robotics for Good award. The goal of the award is to encourage robotics inno...
Fetch Robotics gets $3 million
Frank Tobe
10 Feb 2015
Ex-Willow Garage and Unbounded Robotics veterans get $3 million to bring mobile manipulator and mobile platform to market....
Flyability wins $1M Drones for Good competition
NCCR Robotics
10 Feb 2015
Flyability, a spin off company from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics, has won the $1M inaugural UAE Drones for Good competition with Gimball, the world’s first crash resilient drone....
Introducing Spot, a new smaller 4-legged robot from Boston Dynamics
Ioannis K. Erripis
09 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]Boston Dynamics just released a video of a new four legged robot named “Spot”.[/tweetquote] It is an evolution along the lines of their previous four-legged robots like BigDog and Wild...
2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market
Andra Keay
09 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]Fetch Robotics has just announced $3 million funding from Shasta Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures[/tweetquote], which will be used to bring their new mobile manipulator robots to...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
President Obama’s budget for 2016 includes, among other things, the Pentagon’s spending plans for the year. These include significant investments in dro...
Qualcomm acquires KMel Robotics
Ben Fisher
09 Feb 2015
In Qualcomm's quest to shape the future of robotics, the US-based semi-conductor juggernaut acquired KMel Robotics last week for an undisclosed sum....
Video: A day in the life of BeatBots’ Marek Michalowski
ConnectEd Studios
09 Feb 2015
At ConnectEd Studios we had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of Marek Michalowski, a co-founder of BeatBots. BeatBots is the robotic design studio behind the Keepon, and creates dynamic robotic ...
Recent robotics transactions
Frank Tobe
09 Feb 2015
New Chinese robotics investment fund; the RIA says 2014 North American robotics set new sales record; marine robotics company gets acquired. These stories and many more … ...
Robotics research reports project upward growth
Frank Tobe
09 Feb 2015
A flurry of robotic research analyses and reports are being sold by a variety of vendors. Most show steady growth rates — and a few project spectacular growth....
The Year of CoCoRo Video #06/52: Jeff swarm size measurement
Thomas Schmickl
08 Feb 2015
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 ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #05/52: Lily swarm size awareness
Thomas Schmickl
08 Feb 2015
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 ...
Programming safety into self-driving cars
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
06 Feb 2015
For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...
Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship
The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
06 Feb 2015
In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...
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Mobile Robots and Virtual Worlds, with Riccardo Cassinis
Audrow Nash
06 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Professor Riccardo Cassinis from the University of Brescia in Italy about using robotics in education. Cassinis speaks about having children, from primary schoo...
