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Sense Think Act Pocast: Erik Schluntz
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
19 Oct 2021
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Erik Schluntz, co-founder and CTO of Cobalt Robotics, which makes a security guard robot. Erik speaks about how their robot handles elevators, how they have hum...
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Construction Site Automation by Dusty Robotics, with Tessa Lau
Abate De Mey
12 Mar 2021
Robohub Podcast · Construction Site Automation
Abate interviews Tessa Lau on her startup Dusty Robotics which is innovating in the field of construction.
At Dusty Robotics, they developed a rob...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
Thilo Zimmermann
21 Oct 2019
“Within the framework of the European project ROBOTT-NET we are developing software and robotic solutions for the prevention and control of rodents in enclosed spaces”, says Marco Lorenzo, Service...
Rapid outdoor/indoor 3D mapping with a Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
09 Jul 2017
by Nicholas Charron
The need for fast, accurate 3D mapping solutions has quickly become a reality for many industries wanting to adopt new technologies in AI and automation. New applications requir...
How a challenging aerial environment sparked a business opportunity
Max Ruffo
30 May 2017
We develop the fastest, smallest and lightest distance sensors for advanced robotics in challenging environments. These sensors are born from a fruitful collaboration with CERN while developing flying...
JANUS creates a new era for digital underwater communications
Francesca Nacini
04 May 2017
NATO Nations have agreed to use JANUS, a new underwater communications device, as the NATO Standard for digital underwater communications. This is the first time a digital underwater communication pr...
Avatar interviews and portable scanners to speed up border crossings
Horizon Magazine
15 Feb 2017
by Ethan Bilby
Anastasia Garbi from European Dynamics in Luxembourg is working on a system that uses facial recognition to begin screening people before they leave home.
‘You can use what you have...
ENRICH will test robots in real world radiological and nuclear scenarios
Frank E. Schneider
13 Feb 2017
There is significant potential for the use of unmanned vehicles in scenarios involving radiological and nuclear (RN) threats. The European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ERN...
No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
Robohub Editors
28 Oct 2016
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi,...
Human-robot disaster response team successfully deployed robots in earthquake damaged monuments
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
08 Sep 2016
After the devastating earthquake in Amatrice, Italy, on August 24th, the Vigili del Fuoco (Italian fire brigade) requested assistance from the TRADR (Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Robot-Assisted...
Surveying flooded mines with UNEXMIN: Interview with Norbert Zajzon
Luís Lopes
01 Sep 2016
The UNEXMIN project (Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines) started February 2016. It is an EU-funded project, from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Luís Lopes, from the La Palma...
Sweep: a low cost LiDAR sensor for smart consumer products
Tyson Messori
04 Apr 2016
UPDATE: Only 7 days left to back Sweep! They are now almost 80% funded....
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3D SLAM, with John Leonard
Audrow Nash
27 Dec 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Professor John Leonard from MIT about his research on dense, object-based 3D Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)....
Enter the abyss with OpenROV, the $899 open source kit
Ben Fisher
26 Dec 2014
The OpenROV submersible is a low cost and open source kit designed for exploration and education. Originally launched on Kickstarter in 2012 it has now grown into a dedicated global community launch...
Ocean-going robot fleet successfully completes fish-tracking mission
National Oceanography Centre (NOC)
04 Dec 2014
The second phase of an ambitious project to gather valuable information on ocean processes and marine life using a fleet of innovative marine robots has just reached its conclusion. Co-ordinated by th...
British National Oceanographic Centre launches major unmanned exploration mission
Dronologista
06 Oct 2014
Collecting oceanographic data is usually accomplished by a combination of satellites, buoys and research ships. All those methods have their limitations (e.g. buoys are only gathering info from a fixe...
Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy
Dronologista
30 Jul 2014
Aerial mapping can be quite time-consuming and expensive. Even if you are employing a UAV to do it, it might take hours for all the post-processing, time-stamp shifting and deleting blurred photos. An...
Drones against illegal fishing
Dronologista
24 Jul 2014
Image source: Flickr
With industry losses worth US$23 billion per year, illegal fishing represents a major global problem. One out of three bluefin tunas are caught illegally, as are around 20% of a...
Quadrotor allegedly seen spying on French team’s closed practice at World Cup
Dronologista
13 Jun 2014
UAVs, or drones, have been making their presence known in sports for some time now, mostly for aerial filming of open air games and races. But they are starting to show up for other uses in sports now...
Underwater ROV aids in investigation, searches for victims in South Korean ferry tragedy
Hallie Siegel
02 May 2014
The search and rescue team involved in the recent South Korean ferry tragedy has deployed a remotely-operated underwater robot to help in the investigation and hopeful search for possible survivors in...
Packbot: Serving the Military and World Cup Football
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
19 Feb 2014
PackBots will be deployed in Brazil during the 2014 World Cup Soccer season to bring a high-tech approach to security. The nation’s government has secured a $7.2 million deal with PackBot’s crea...
Overhead transmission line inspection robots
Frank Tobe
01 Feb 2014
Japanese start-up HiBot, a maker of various types of robots for commercial use such as industrial pipeline cleaning, also developed a high transmission line inspection robot name Expliner. Last week ...
Snap 2014: Aerial drones and 3D mapping software for civil engineering surveying
Frank Tobe
06 Jan 2014
An Irish surveyor tested results (and had those results peer reviewed through the local university) of surveys done by drone and software vs. doing it by hand (which took days longer). The surveyor is...
Mapping in the Cloud
Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah
23 Dec 2013
UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...
Maps & apps
Frank Tobe
08 Oct 2013
Image: senseFly
... Two events, from different parts of the world, on the same day and subject: geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) and the use of “layering”...
National Geographic uses AGVs and drones for photo story about lions
Frank Tobe
12 Aug 2013
... Once again National Geographic photographers have used innovative techniques to capture amazing images. Remember the polar bear cam in 2011 that got crushed by the curious bear as he examined and ...
