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    Swarming

    Will nanotechnology soon allow you to ‘swallow the doctor’? | CNN
      05 Feb 2015
    At ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, mechanical engineer Brad Nelson and his team have worked on nanobots for a decade, and are now ready to think big: "We're making microscopic r...

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour
      25 Jan 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 ...

    Swarmbots: James McLurkin on why, how, and when we will see swarm robotics in practice
      20 Jan 2015
    Link to audio file (27:29), or listen on iTunes James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS’s “Nova,” in additi...

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #03/52: Jeff robots explore
      18 Jan 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 #02/52: Overview of largest swarm
      11 Jan 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 #01/52: Overview of the Jeff robot
      04 Jan 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 ...

    Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
      08 Oct 2014
    Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR) is a small and powerful mobile robot platform that is designed to be used in a heterogeneous robotic swarm that is currently under development at the Laboratory of Artific...

    CoCoRo CeBIT
      08 Oct 2014
    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 ...

    Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes
      14 Aug 2014
    There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robo...

    Short CoCoRo AUV swarm underwater video
      16 Jul 2014
    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 ...

    Droplets: A low-cost swarm robotics platform for teaching and experimentation
      02 Jun 2014
    We have developed a new swarm robotic platform that falls in size, cost and capability between Harvard’s kilobot and the e-Puck. The Droplet is almost spherical, can self-right after being poured ou...

    Robohub Digest May 2014
      02 Jun 2014
    A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news from the past month, our monthly digest is released on the first Monday of every month. The risks and regulation of autonomous robots featur...

    GRASP: Intelligent, swarming nanobots | Motherboard
      22 May 2014
    “Micro-robotic technology is a rapidly growing area of exploration, and one in which the Defense Department is eager to delve into. The government is pouring money into researching and developin...

    Disney & ETHZurich create Pixelbots | WIRED
      09 May 2014
    “Walt Disney pioneered the art of animation and pushed the boundaries of robotics with his audio-animatronic presidents, but now the research lab that bears his name, along with ETH Zurich, have...

    Researchers want to build swarm of 1,000 Droplet robots | IEEE Spectrum
      07 May 2014
    “The Droplets project is looking for at least US $10,000 to construct what looks like 100 robots. This isn't to suggest that each robot actually costs $100: a full 50 percent of that $10k goes strai...

    Lab seeks funds for large-scale swarm | CU Boulder
      03 May 2014
    “Swarming is ubiquitous in nature. You can observe it in termites, slime mold, and ants, but if you think about it, everything is a swarm. Atoms as old as the universe interact with ea...
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    Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke

      02 May 2014
    In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and har...

    5 cool (and informative) robot videos you don’t want to miss
      29 Apr 2014
    This wide-ranging group of robotics-related videos are worth watching. Set aside some time, make sure you have a hi-speed connection, and watch them. They range from cool to informative to downright s...

    Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel

      04 Apr 2014
    Link to audio file (28:48)In this episode, we talk to Justin Werfel from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University about their latest paper published in Science o...

    The latest in ultra-affordable robots: AFRON competition announces winners
      28 Mar 2014
    MIT's printable robot wins first place in Hardware category. In 2012, the African Robotics Network (AFRON) challenged the robotics community to design a $10 educational robot that could inspire kids ...

    No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?
    and   28 Mar 2014
    What's with all the quadrotors in auto advertising these days? And what do quadrotor swarms have to do with cars? Probably not much at all, but apparently associating your auto brand with high-perfor...

    Finding perfection in the imperfect: Applying Darwinian neuro-evolution to robotics
    and   25 Mar 2014
    When it comes to complex tasks like building a house, many people with different skills work together to accomplish a single, larger goal. Instead of trying to create a perfect robot capable of buildi...

    Robotics in reach: Your smartphone could be a robot brain
    and   18 Mar 2014
    António Câmara is a man with a vision. Despite the widespread adoption of computers and digital technology over the last few decades, how we interact with that technology, and use technology to i...

    Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
    and   10 Mar 2014
    Photo by Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology A paper in Nature Communications earlier this year reports on "bio-bots". These tiny machines inspired by sperm, are ...

    Brand strength, cultural influence of consumer-facing giants like Google, Apple and Amazon help legitimize robotics for businesses and investors
      04 Mar 2014
    What is one to make of this focus series … Big Deals: What It Means to Have the Giants Investing in Robotics … with the giants being Google, Amazon and Apple (as given in the preamble)? The ass...

    Swarms of drones could be the next frontier in emergency response | NBC News
      25 Jan 2014
    Robots that can buzz, whir, and clamber into some of the most dangerous crime scenes and disaster zones are coming to the aid of police...See on www.nbcnews.com...

    Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
      17 Jan 2014
    NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT's campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...

    ShanghAI Lectures: Samia Nefti-Mezziani “Non-rational Particle Swarm Optimization”
      09 Jan 2014
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-03 Among the evolutionary algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) represents an optimization method where individuals, called particles, collabora...

    Outreach activities: Making nanoparticle robots to ‘treat cancer’
      29 Dec 2013
    We would always have kids come around the robotics lab where I did my PhD. They would learn about robots and we would show them videos and demos of bio-inspired robots that could fly, jump and swarm. ...

    Teams and Tasks, with Lynne Parker

      27 Dec 2013
    Link to audio file (37:33) In today’s episode, Per Sjöborg speaks with Lynne Parker from the University of Tennessee about her work with robot teams. Her lab is developing techniques to get ro...

    ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and Control of Mobile Robot Networks”
      27 Dec 2013
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-26 Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which can achieve...

    From the Greenhouse to the Fields, with David Dorhout

      15 Nov 2013
    Link to audio file (27:16) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with David Dorhout from Iowa State University about his Agricultural Robots that include Prospero the robot farmer and Aquarius the g...

    Live Coverage of IROS Workshop on Science Communication
      04 Nov 2013
    Don't miss our live coverage on "Understanding Robotics and Public Opinion: Best Practices in Public Science Communication and Online Dissemination" at the IROS conference in Tokyo. LIVE NOW  No...

    MIT deploys swarm of self-assembling robot cubes | Automaton
      07 Oct 2013
    MIT research scientist John Romanishin has been working on (or at least thinking about) M-Blocks for the past several years, but from the sound of things, everyone thought he was nuts until he manag...

    Researchers use single joystick to control swarm of RC robots
      09 Sep 2013
    What can you do with 12 RC robots all slaved to the same joystick remote control?  Common sense might say you need 11 more remotes, but our video demonstrates you can steer all the robots to any desi...

    Crowdsourcing new strategies for cancer treatment: Towards swarming nanobots
      04 Sep 2013
    NanoDoc is our new online game to crowdsource the design of nanomedicine. The game allows bioengineers and the general public to imagine new nanoparticle strategies towards the treatment of cancer....

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