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Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring, with Lei Cui
Ron Vanderkley
26 Jun 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Lei Cui from Curtin University about his team’s work on 3D printable hand orthosis for rehabilitation, a task-oriented 4-...
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Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti
Audrow Nash
15 May 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Federico Parietti, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about his research on supernumerary robotic limbs that can be used in manufact...
Pleurobot: Multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot
NCCR Robotics
12 Feb 2015
The Pleurobot is a bioinspired robot being developed by the BioRob at EPFL and NCCR Robotics. Taking it's cues from the salamander, the Pleurobot is a walking robot that can change its gait to help it...
Introducing Spot, a new smaller 4-legged robot from Boston Dynamics
Ioannis K. Erripis
09 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]Boston Dynamics just released a video of a new four legged robot named “Spot”.[/tweetquote] It is an evolution along the lines of their previous four-legged robots like BigDog and Wild...
DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk
NCCR Robotics
21 Jan 2015
The issue of how to use one robot across multiple terrains is an ongoing question in robotics research. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Ro...
Evolving swimming robots to study origins of extinct vertebrates
Hypotheses about the evolution of traits in ancient species are difficult to test, as the relevant animals have often been extinct for thousands or millions of years. In the present study, a populatio...
Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
Dan Novischi
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...
30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk
Nathan Labhart
21 May 2014
Source: University of Zurich Mediadesk
Watch Rolf Pfeifer’s farewell lecture at the University of Zurich, broadcasting live on Robohub Friday May 23, 2014 (18:00–19:30 CEST/16:00–17:30 UTC).
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ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”
Nathan Labhart
10 Apr 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-10-21
In this guest presentation, Patrick van der Smagt talks about biomimetic approaches to robot control, kinematics, grasping, and ways to use the human...
Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel
Podcast team
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...
Finding perfection in the imperfect: Applying Darwinian neuro-evolution to robotics
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
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...
Self-contained soft-bodied robotic fish
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
19 Mar 2014
What looks like a fish, swims like a fish but isn’t a fish? The latest in soft-bodied robots created by team of engineers of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at th...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session
Fabio Bonsignorio
18 Mar 2014
Lecture 8-II: Education and Industry Session
This lecture hosted by Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, is about higher education and industrial impact of the ...
Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
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 ...
Interdisciplinary Teams, with Giulio Sandini
Per Sjöborg
10 Jan 2014
Link to audio file (41:58)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Giulio Sandini, director of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)...
ShanghAI Lectures: Auke Ijspeert “Controlling the Locomotion of Robots Using Central Pattern Generator Models”
Nathan Labhart
01 Nov 2013
Animal locomotion control is in a large part based on central pattern generators (CPGs), which are neural networks capable of producing complex rhythmic patterns while being activated and modulated by...
Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t
Adrien Briod
30 Oct 2013
Gimball is a flying robot that survives collisions. It weighs just 370g for 34cm in diameter. Photo credit: A. Herzog, EPFL.
Generally, flying robots are programmed to avoid obstacles, which is far ...
Boston Dynamics announces new WildCat quadruped robot | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
07 Oct 2013
Boston Dynamics has just updated its YouTube channel with some new videos. One of them is an update on Atlas. Another is an update on LS3. And the third is this: WildCat, a totally new quadruped rob...
Origami Robots, with Nick Kohut
Matthew Schroyer
20 Sep 2013
Link to audio file (24:09)
In this episode Matthew Schroyer speaks with Nick Kohut, CEO of Dash Robotics, about their foldable hexapod robot and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign to get them into the...
Construction with Amorphous Materials, with Nils Napp
Sabine Hauert
06 Sep 2013
Link to audio file (25:03)
In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews Nils Napp from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
Napp tells us about his...
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...
DARPA unveils new humanoid robot
Jim Haas
12 Jul 2013
DARPA unveiled their new humanoid robot Atlas that will be used as part of their robotics challenge. It can tackle rough terrain and carry human tools.
See on DARPA website....
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...
Curved Artificial Compound Eye, with Ramon Pericet Camara and Michal Dobrzynski
Podcast team
31 May 2013
Link to audio file (22:01)In this episode, we speak with Ramon Pericet and Michal Dobrzynski from EPFL about their Curved Artificial Compound Eye (CurvACE) published in the Proceedings of the National...
Plug-and-play artificial compound eye for robotic applications
Sabine Hauert
20 May 2013
Flies have small brains that would not be able to process high-resolution images such as those that we see with our own eyes. Instead, they've perfected the use of compound eyes, composed of a dense m...
Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller
Podcast team
03 May 2013
Link to audio file (25:02)In this episode we hear from researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab about the Science paper published today reporting on the first controlled flight of an insect-sized ...
First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot
Sabine Hauert
02 May 2013
Researchers from the Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard have developed a millimeter-scaled insect robot that can autonomously control its flight. Their findin...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”
Nathan Labhart
24 Mar 2013
This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, Barry Trimmer (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about so...
Robots on Tour event draws larger-than-expected crowds
Nathan Labhart
20 Mar 2013
Surprise! Robots are much more popular than expected!
Robots on Tour started off on Friday 8 March 2013 with a scientific symposium at café/bar Sphères in Zurich, Switzerland. Big names from the...
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...
Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich
Nathan Labhart
03 Mar 2013
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, organizer of the ShanghAI Lectures, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big robot festival on 8 and 9 March 2013 in Zurich....
Flying insects and robots
Sabine Hauert
24 Feb 2013
TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
Insect-inspired navigation, with Michael Mangan
Per Sjöborg
22 Feb 2013
Link to audio file (27:47)
In this episode Per talks to Michael Mangan from the University of Edinburgh about using robotics to study and replicate insect behaviour....
Bioinspired robot STAR
Wolfgang Heller
21 Feb 2013
Researchers at the Biomimetic Millisystem Lab at UC Berkeley have developed a six legged, 12 cm long, bioinspired robot named STAR (Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot)....
Cell origami
Sabine Hauert
19 Feb 2013
A couple years back, a team from Harvard and MIT developed a sheet of "programmable matter" that could fold into 3D structures....
Robot Companions: Flagship funding proposal for 1 billion euro submitted
Markus Waibel
25 Oct 2012
The Coordination Action Robot Companions for Citizens has submitted its proposal for the European Commission's FET Flagship Initiative....
