• team
  • about
  • contribute
  • republish
    • ☰
  • News
  • Views
  • Podcast
  • Learn

    • Robohub.org

    bio-inspired


    Origami Robots, with Nick Kohut

    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...
    20 September 2013, by

    Construction with Amorphous Materials, with Nils Napp

    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...
    06 September 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

    DARPA unveils new humanoid robot
      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....
    12 July 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

    Curved Artificial Compound Eye, with Ramon Pericet Camara and Michal Dobrzynski

    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...
    31 May 2013, by



    Plug-and-play artificial compound eye for robotic applications
    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...
    20 May 2013, by

    Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller

    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 ...
    03 May 2013, by

    First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot
    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...
    02 May 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”
    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...
    24 March 2013, by

    Robots on Tour event draws larger-than-expected crowds
    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...
    20 March 2013, by

    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

    Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich
    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....
    03 March 2013, by

    Flying insects and robots
    TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
    24 February 2013, by

    Insect-inspired navigation, with Michael Mangan

    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....
    22 February 2013, by

    Bioinspired robot STAR
    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)....
    21 February 2013, by

    Cell origami
    A couple years back, a team from Harvard and MIT developed a sheet of "programmable matter" that could fold into 3D structures....
    19 February 2013, by

    Robot Companions: Flagship funding proposal for 1 billion euro submitted
    The Coordination Action Robot Companions for Citizens has submitted its proposal for the European Commission's FET Flagship Initiative....
    25 October 2012, by

    TEDxHelvetia features soft robots
    TEDxHelvetia, which took place at the Rolex Learning Center in Switzerland, featured two EPFL professors in the rising fields of soft robotics and stretchable electronics....
    08 October 2012, by

    Human robot hand | NYTimes.com
    MECHANICAL REACH Engineers at the University of Washington are working on a human-scale robot hand. See on www.nytimes.com...
    19 September 2012, by

    Artificial cerebellum
    Researchers in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, and in the Department of Computer Architecture and Electronics, University of Almería, have developed a b...
    15 July 2012, by

    LinkNotes: Biologically accurate walking robot legs
    Their new biped robot features an improved leg design that models even more muscles. And it's already walking (though it relies on a babywalker-like support for balance). It stands 55 cm (22″) tall ...
    09 July 2012, by

    Robert J. Wood interview
    http://youtu.be/WGR3SqPrOYs Robert J. Wood (see also), Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Core Member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Universit...
    03 June 2012, by

    Robotic fish and mannequins, with Maarja Kruusmaa and Diana Saarva

    Link to audio file (53:13)In today’s episode we talk to Maarja Kruusmaa about robotic fish and the robotic mannequin they are developing at Fits.me, alongside with Diana Saarva, the COO of Fits....
    01 June 2012, by
    ep.

    098

    podcast

    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

    iCub drums and crawls using bio-inspired control
    Ever see a lizard effortlessly run up a wall? Like most vertebrates, lizards are able to quickly adapt to new environments in a robust way thanks to a special type of movement generator. The idea is ...
    17 January 2012, by
    ep.

    091

    podcast

    Connectors & modular robots, with Martin Nilsson

    Link to audio file (44:00)In today’s show we hear from our new collaborator, Per Sjoborg who is the founder of Flexibility Envelope, a blog on self-reconfiguring modular robotics. He speaks to M...
    18 November 2011, by
    ep.

    054

    podcast

    Modeling biology, with Barbara Webb and Steffen Wischmann

    Link to audio file (28:44)In today’s episode we speak about modeling biology using robots and how lessons learned through this process can feedback into robotics. Our first guest, Barbara Webb, ...
    18 June 2010, by
    ep.

    048

    podcast

    Chaos control, with Poramate Manoonpong and Alex Pitti

    Link to audio file (37:05)In this episode we focus on chaos control and ways to generate unpredictable behaviour. Our first guess, Poramate Manoonpong is a research associate at the Bernstein Center f...
    26 March 2010, by
    ep.

    037

    podcast

    Slithering creatures, with Howie Choset and Erik Kyrkjebø

    Link to audio file (36:14)In this episode we’ll be speaking about snake robots slithering through pipes, disaster areas and even your body. We first speak with expert Howie Choset from Carnegie ...
    23 October 2009, by

    ← previous page   
        next page →



    ↑
  • News
  • Views
  • Podcast
  • Learn
  • team
  • about
  • contribute
  • republish
  • RSS
  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • Youtube

    • Robohub is supported by:




    Would you like to learn how to tell impactful stories about your robot or AI system?


    scicomm
    training the next generation of science communicators in robotics & AI


    ©2024 - Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence


     










    ©2021 - ROBOTS Association