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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.
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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 ...
MIT Mediated Matter Group: CNSILK
John Payne
03 May 2012
http://youtu.be/JgeFLGfvrEM
The Mediated Matter Group within the MIT Media Lab, is dedicated to the development and application of novel processes that enable and support the design of physical matte...
Festo ExoHand at Hannover Messe
John Payne
03 May 2012
http://youtu.be/EcTL7Hig8h4
Hannover Messe, the world's biggest industrial fair, took place April 23rd through 27th. Among the many exhibits there were Festo's ExoHand, which connects a glove, with a...
Catching up with robots
John Payne
30 Apr 2012
http://youtu.be/Qh6tCkAGjQA
The video above shows the action of a gear-and-lever assembly designed to operate the legs of the TE+ND Rover, a gardening robot which will be on display at the Bay Area M...
Robots are good but roboticists are better!
Andra Keay
20 Apr 2012
MEGA Startup Weekend proved that you can mix startups and robots together and build new robot businesses. Now we need to work out how to repeat the success. It’s clear now that having real robot pla...
Learning acrobatic maneuvers for quadrocopters
Sabine Hauert
17 Apr 2012
Have you ever seen those videos of quadrocopters performing acrobatic maneuvers?
The latest paper on the Autonomous Robots website presents a simple method to make your robot achieve adaptive fast ...
Mega Startup Weekend with robots
Andra Keay
28 Mar 2012
For the 1st time in startup weekend history, teams are asked to build robot startups in a 54hr challenge. Using just a mockup OR an existing robot platform OR all the robot resources you possess, can ...
Why are we doing this?
Andra Keay
20 Mar 2012
You might think we’re crazy, organizing robot startup events and doing it all as volunteers. But if you know us, then you know that we are passionate about creating new robot businesses, growing new...
