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Quadcopters advertising new Star Trek movie
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...
24 March 2013, by
Frank Tobe
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”
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...
18 March 2013, by
Nathan Labhart
Swarm behaviour may not require intelligence | NewScientist
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...
11 March 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Swarm robotics at CU-Boulder
“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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17 December 2012, by
John Payne
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 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....
16 December 2012, by
Sabine Hauert
Swimming robots
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. ...
27 November 2012, by
Andra Keay
Robot swarm coordination simplified by use of overhead drones | i-programmer.info
"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...
29 October 2012, by
John Payne
Swarms of robots will roam the land
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...
10 September 2012, by
Andra Keay
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Self-organizing systems, with Radhika Nagpal
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 ...
24 February 2012, by
Podcast team
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097
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Senseable robots, with Carlo Ratti,
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...
10 February 2012, by
Podcast team
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068
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Multi-robot teams, with Vijay Kumar and Daniel Mellinger
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...
31 December 2010, by
Podcast team
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065
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Dependable swarms, with Alan Winfield
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...
19 November 2010, by
Podcast team
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046
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Swarming satellites, with Alvar Saenz-Otero
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...
26 February 2010, by
Podcast team
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025
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Collective coverage and self-assembly, with Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross
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...
08 May 2009, by
Podcast team
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011
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Jumping and crawling in millirobots, with Sarah Bergbreiter and Aaron Hoover
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...
24 October 2008, by
Podcast team
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10
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Warehouse robots, with Raffaello D’Andrea
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...
10 October 2008, by
Podcast team
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009
podcast
Swarming autonomous underwater vehicles, with Navinda Kottege and Marc Sherman
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...
26 September 2008, by
Podcast team
