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    Swarming


    Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel

    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...
    04 April 2014, by

    The latest in ultra-affordable robots: AFRON competition announces winners
    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 ...
    28 March 2014, by

    No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?
    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...
    28 March 2014, by and

    Finding perfection in the imperfect: Applying Darwinian neuro-evolution to robotics
    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...
    25 March 2014, by and

    Robotics in reach: Your smartphone could be a robot brain
    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...
    18 March 2014, by and

    Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
    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 ...
    10 March 2014, by and



    Brand strength, cultural influence of consumer-facing giants like Google, Apple and Amazon help legitimize robotics for businesses and investors
    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...
    04 March 2014, by

    Swarms of drones could be the next frontier in emergency response | NBC News
    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...
    25 January 2014, by

    Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
    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...
    17 January 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Samia Nefti-Mezziani “Non-rational Particle Swarm Optimization”
    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...
    09 January 2014, by

    Outreach activities: Making nanoparticle robots to ‘treat cancer’
    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. ...
    29 December 2013, by

    Teams and Tasks, with Lynne Parker

    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...
    27 December 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and Control of Mobile Robot Networks”
    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...
    27 December 2013, by

    From the Greenhouse to the Fields, with David Dorhout

    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...
    15 November 2013, by

    Live Coverage of IROS Workshop on Science Communication
    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...
    04 November 2013, by

    MIT deploys swarm of self-assembling robot cubes | Automaton
    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...
    07 October 2013, by

    Researchers use single joystick to control swarm of RC robots
    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...
    09 September 2013, by

    Crowdsourcing new strategies for cancer treatment: Towards swarming nanobots
    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....
    04 September 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”
    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...
    14 August 2013, by

    Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
    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...
    17 July 2013, by and

    Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials
    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...
    26 June 2013, by

    Science without borders: Becoming cross-disciplinary
    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...
    14 June 2013, by

    CoCoRo Impressions 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo Target Detection 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo swarm size awareness 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo Swarm Control 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo shoaling 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    Nate the Robot RH.6: Bugs are Bugs
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    10 May 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from interaction”
    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...
    06 April 2013, by

    ‘E-puck’ robot swarm moves objects with minimum of information | Wired UK
    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...
    02 April 2013, by

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