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    Smart ‘Joey’ bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes
    Researchers from the University of Leeds have developed the first mini-robot, called Joey, that can find its own way independently through networks of narrow pipes underground, to inspect any damage or leaks.
    06 January 2023, by

    Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures
    Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.
    25 November 2022, by

    Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines
    Researchers showed it is possible to collectively transport molecular cargo by a swarm of artificial molecular robots responding to light.
    23 July 2022, by

    Emergency-response drones to save lives in the digital skies
    Uncrewed aircraft responding to fire and medical emergencies will be used to save lives - if digitalised air-traffic control can help them navigate safely in the skies over Europe.
    20 July 2022, by

    Radhika Nagpal at #NeurIPS2021: the collective intelligence of army ants
    Radhika’s research focusses on collective intelligence, with the overarching goal being to understand how large groups of individuals, with local interaction rules, can cooperate to achieve globally complex behaviour.
    01 February 2022, by

    Sniffy Bug: a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters in cluttered environments
    Tiny drones are ideal candidates for fully autonomous jobs that are too dangerous or time-consuming for humans. A commonly shared dream by engineers and fire & rescue services, would be to have swarms...
    15 July 2021, by and



    Robot Swarms in the Real World workshop at IEEE ICRA 2021
    Siddharth Mayya (University of Pennsylvania), Gennaro Notomista (CNRS Rennes), Roderich Gross (The University of Sheffield) and Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania) were the organisers of this IEE...
    17 June 2021, by

    Creating expressive robot swarms
    As robot swarms leave the lab and enter our daily lives, it is important that we find ways by which we can effectively communicate with robot swarms, especially ones that contain a high number of robo...
    23 May 2021, by

    Helping drone swarms avoid obstacles without hitting each other
    By Clara Marc There is strength in numbers. That’s true not only for humans, but for drones too. By flying in a swarm, they can cover larger areas and collect a wider range of data, since each dr...
    20 May 2021, by

    Towards mapping unknown environments with a robot swarm
    Mapping is an essential task in many robotics applications. A map is a representation of the environment generated from robots positions and sensors data. A map can be either used to navigate the robo...
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    Multi-Robot Learning, with Amanda Prorok

    Robohub Podcast · Multi-Robot Learning In this episode, Lilly interviews Amanda Prorok, Professor of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Prorok discusses her research o...
    29 March 2021, by

    Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish
    By Leah Burrows / SEAS Communications Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate, and evade predators. No one fish or sub-group of fish coordinates th...
    01 February 2021, by
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    Deep Sea Mining, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo

    Robohub Podcast · Deep Sea Mining In this episode, Abate follows up with Benjamin Pietro Filardo, founder of Pliant Energy Systems and NACROM, the North American Consortium for Responsible Ocean M...
    18 January 2021, by

    Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
    By Conn Hastings, science writer Controlling a swarm of robots to paint a picture sounds like a difficult task. However, a new technique allows an artist to do just that, without worrying about pro...
    18 October 2020, by
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    Coordination, Cooperation, and Collaboration, with Vijay Kumar

    In this interview, Lilly interviews Vijay Kumar, Professor and Dean at the University of Pennsylvania. He discusses coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-robot systems. He also explain...
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    Robotarium: A Robotics Lab Accessible to All, with Magnus Egerstedt

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interview Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about a way for anyone interested in swarm robotics to test their ideas on hardware, called...
    02 September 2018, by

    Indoor drone shows are here
    2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
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    Smart Swarms, with Vijay Kumar

    In this episode, Jack Rasiel interviews Vijay Kumar, Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.  Kumar discusses the guiding ideas behind his research on micro unmanned aeri...
    28 October 2017, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/10/17
    The U.S. Army is developing a drone that moves like a flying squirrel. Credit: David McNally/U.S. Army News A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted members of al-Shabab. It is the second drone...
    11 July 2017, by

    Cooperative payload transportation with UAVs
    Delivery robots are touted as gaining widespread popularity in the near future. Wheeled models could be suitable for urban areas, while UAVs have great potential in accessing difficult areas and carr...
    27 April 2017, by

    Robot Life Survey
    What might the first western explorer have thought upon encountering whales, flamingos and iguanas? What would have they thought of these strange near-fantastical creatures? What is it like for 21s...
    09 January 2017, by , and

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/09/17
    January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017 At the Center for the Study of the Drone We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on ...
    09 January 2017, by

    Designing robots with bugs??
    Ask a child to design a robot, and they’ll produce a drawing that looks a little like you or I—the parts may be gray and boxy, but it will have two arms, two legs, and a head (probably with an ant...
    26 December 2016, by

    Robohub roundtable: Robotic bee swarms from Black Mirror – what’s hype, what’s real?
    In this roundtable edition, we watched the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation” and asked our Robohub team members: with many institutions focused on developing aerial drone technology, and ...
    06 December 2016, by

    How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
    What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
    08 November 2016, by and

    mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
    Developed by a team at the University of Toronto, mROBerTO (milli-ROBot TORonto) is designed for swarm-robotics researchers who might wish to test their collective-behavior algorithms with real physic...
    26 October 2016, by

    Swarms of precision agriculture robots could help put food on the table
    Swarms of drones will help farmers map weeds in their fields and improve crop yields. This is the promise of an ECHORD++ funded research project called ‘SAGA: Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Appli...
    21 October 2016, by , and

    Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
    Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
    22 February 2016, by

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #52/52: Final Demonstration
    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....
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    The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision
    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...
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