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ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”
Nathan Labhart
14 Aug 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which however c...
Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz
17 Jul 2013
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...
Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials
Simone Schürle
26 Jun 2013
Unlike larger robots, microrobots for applications in the body are too small to carry batteries and motors. To address this challenge, we power and control robots made of magnetic materials using exte...
Science without borders: Becoming cross-disciplinary
Sabine Hauert
14 Jun 2013
Those who move away from home, for long enough, know that you end up not belonging anywhere. The more you move the easier it becomes. Looking back, you realize that you've learned new languages and cu...
CoCoRo Impressions 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo Target Detection 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo swarm size awareness 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo Swarm Control 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo shoaling 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from interaction”
Nathan Labhart
06 Apr 2013
In the 7th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer talks about collective intelligence. Examples include ants that find the shortest path to a food source, robots that clean up, and birds th...
‘E-puck’ robot swarm moves objects with minimum of information | Wired UK
Hallie Siegel
02 Apr 2013
Robotics researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a swarm of hockey puck-like robots that can self-organise and work together to transport large objects.
Read more: Wired U...
Quadcopters advertising new Star Trek movie
Frank Tobe
24 Mar 2013
A squadron of 30 LED-studded Ascending Technologies quadcopters hovered above Potters Fields Park near London’s Tower Bridge and, in conjunction with Earth Hour, formed a three-dimensional Star Trek...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”
Nathan Labhart
18 Mar 2013
This is the fourth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, where Rolf Pfeifer starts introducing a set of “Design Principles” for intelligent systems, as outlined in the book “How the Body Shapes t...
Swarm behaviour may not require intelligence | NewScientist
Hallie Siegel
11 Mar 2013
In a series of videos that depict groups of ultra-simple vibrating robots as they buzz around an arena, Luca Giomi, an applied mathematician at Harvard University, demonstrates how apparently intelli...
Swarm robotics at CU-Boulder
John Payne
17 Dec 2012
“Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a swarm of intelligent robots that can work together to perform tasks, like containing an oil spill or building a space station.”
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Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2012)
Sabine Hauert
16 Dec 2012
My colleague Nils Napp from Radhika Nagpal's lab at Harvard attended the DARS symposium this year and agreed to share some highlights with us....
Swimming robots
Andra Keay
27 Nov 2012
Why should flying robots have all the headlines! This year has been full of robots that swim, so here is a small collection, from swarms to explorers, from nanobots to humanoids. ...
Robot swarm coordination simplified by use of overhead drones | i-programmer.info
John Payne
29 Oct 2012
"Swarms of robots don't all have to be of the same type and one of the best known attempts to build a heterogeneous swarm was the swarmanoid project. Originally the swarmanoid consisted of three types...
Swarms of robots will roam the land
Andra Keay
10 Sep 2012
In the future, swarm robots could do everything from taking out the garbage to cleaning your arteries...
This April 2012 piece is better overview than some recent swarm articles.
See on www.techweek...
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podcast
Self-organizing systems, with Radhika Nagpal
Podcast team
24 Feb 2012
Link to audio file (43:40)In today’s episode we focus on self-organizing systems in modular and swarm robotics with Radhika Nagpal, director of the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group at the ...
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097
podcast
Senseable robots, with Carlo Ratti,
Podcast team
10 Feb 2012
Link to audio file (31:22)In today’s episode we look at some of the work done by the Senseable City Lab. We’ll be talking to Carlo Ratti, the director of the Lab, about two of the Lab̵...
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podcast
Multi-robot teams, with Vijay Kumar and Daniel Mellinger
Podcast team
31 Dec 2010
Link to audio file (52:46)Happy New Year from the whole Robots Podcast team! Don’t miss our amazing holiday robot videos!
For this last episode of 2010 we look at multi-robot teams and impressi...
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Dependable swarms, with Alan Winfield
Podcast team
19 Nov 2010
Link to audio file (41:28)In today’s episode we take a close look at swarm robotics and its potential use in real-world applications with expert Alan Winfield, co-founder of the Bristol Robotics...
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Swarming satellites, with Alvar Saenz-Otero
Podcast team
26 Feb 2010
Link to audio file (40:03)In today’s episode we speak with the lead scientist of the SPHERES project, Dr. Alvar Saenz-Otero from MIT, which aims at developing autonomous formation flight and doc...
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Collective coverage and self-assembly, with Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross
Podcast team
08 May 2009
Link to audio file (38:39)In this episode we look in depth at two shades of robot coordination, multi-robot area coverage and self-assembling robots.
Our first guest, Nikolaus Correll, is a postdoc a...
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podcast
Jumping and crawling in millirobots, with Sarah Bergbreiter and Aaron Hoover
Podcast team
24 Oct 2008
Link to audio file (37:20)This episode concentrates on how to scale down robots to the size of our creepy crawly friends, insects. Sarah Bergbreiter tells us about the micromachining techniques requi...
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Warehouse robots, with Raffaello D’Andrea
Podcast team
10 Oct 2008
Link to audio file (39:03)In this episode we sit down with Raffaello D’Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and founding member of Kiva Systems, to spe...
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Swarming autonomous underwater vehicles, with Navinda Kottege and Marc Sherman
Podcast team
26 Sep 2008
Link to audio file (31:06)In this show we dive into the world of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with an emphasis on the challenges when having to localize and communicate in the deep blue. Whil...
