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Talking Machines: Digital humanities with David Mimno

Talking Machines 06 Nov 2015

In episode 23 we talk with David Mimno of Cornell University about his work in the digital humanities, and explore what machine learning can tell us about lady zombie ghosts and huge bodies of liter...

Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph: Video demo

CSAIL MIT 03 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously di...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #44/52: Lily shoaling

Thomas Schmickl 03 Nov 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...

Robots in Depth: Michael Rubenstein on the challenge of building 1,024 Kilobots

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 30 Oct 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Michael Rubenstein d...

Four-legged robot that efficiently handles challenging terrain

ETH Zurich 30 Oct 2015

StarlETH is a multi-purpose legged transporter robot developed at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. Combining versatility, speed, robustness, and efficiency, StarlETH walks, climbs, and runs over...

Four influential technologies with roots in robotics

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 29 Oct 2015

Robotics research has such strong links with several other research fields that, without it, the modern world might not have some of its most promising consumer technologies....

Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal

Wyss Institute 28 Oct 2015

In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching

Thomas Schmickl 27 Oct 2015

Crowdsourcing in machine learning, with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research

Talking Machines 26 Oct 2015

In episode twenty two we talk with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England about his work using crowdsourcing in Machine Learning, we take a look at the workshops being presented at NIPS this ye...

RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea

Wyss Institute 24 Oct 2015

By Leah Burrows | SEAS Communications Engineers have been trying to design functional aerial-aquatic vehicles for decades with little success. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirem...

Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

MIT News 22 Oct 2015

by Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Harbor seals have an amazingly fine-tuned sense for detecting prey, as marine biologists have noted for years. Even when blindfolded, trained seals are able to ch...

Liatris: looking to change how robots see the world

Mark Silliman 20 Oct 2015

Fully autonomous robotics could be developed today if objects could tell a robot what they are, their purpose and how to utilize them. Liatris is a new open source project built with ROS. Its objectiv...

The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud

Ricardo Téllez 20 Oct 2015

The Construct is a Barcelona based startup created to simplify the simulation of robots. The goal is to allow anybody to simulate complex robots and environments with minimal knowledge, without having...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #42/52: Murky waters

Thomas Schmickl 20 Oct 2015

Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015

Thomas Schmickl 15 Oct 2015

Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe...

Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 14 Oct 2015

Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini

Jibo 14 Oct 2015

Finding the right approach to automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a critical step in Jibo’s design: get it right and the experience will be great; get it wrong, and it could really take awa...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #41/52: Metacognition

Thomas Schmickl 13 Oct 2015

In-situ Fabricator: An autonomous construction robot

NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB) 09 Oct 2015

Digital fabrication enables the seamless combination of digital design with physical construction processes. To fully exploit this emerging technology within architecture, robotic fabrication must be ...

Talking Machines: Treating cancer clusters, with Quaid Morris

Talking Machines 09 Oct 2015

In episode twenty one we talk with Quaid Morris of the University of Toronto, who is using machine learning to find a better way to treat cancers. ...

Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread

Marianne Lucien and ETH Zurich 07 Oct 2015

Inspired to take 3D printing technology to new heights, ETH Zurich and MIT researchers create "Rock Print" -- a full-scale architectural installation on display at the Chicago Architecture Biennial u...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #40/52: Adaptive layers water column

Thomas Schmickl 06 Oct 2015

Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain

Autonomous Systems Lab and Péter Fankhauser 05 Oct 2015

This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...

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Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson

Audrow Nash 02 Oct 2015

Transcript below. In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Brad Nelson, Professor at ETH Zurich, about his research regarding micro and nano robotics. They discuss many of Nelson’s projects: ret...

Gazebo rendering abstraction

Open Source Robotics Foundation 30 Sep 2015

During his internship with OSRF, Mike Kasper developed a new ignition-robotics rendering library. The key feature of this library is that it provides an abstract render-engine interface for building ...

Push, pull, nudge: The control challenge of non-prehensile robotic manipulation

Brian Douglas 29 Sep 2015

In this new lecture series, controls expert Brian Douglas walks you through key concepts in control system theory. Focused on making control theory accessible and intuitive, this series is for anyo...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #39/52: Adaptive layers in a pool

Thomas Schmickl 29 Sep 2015

Talking Machines: The Master Algorithm, with UW’s Pedro Domingos

Talking Machines 25 Sep 2015

In episode 20 we chat with Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington, who has just published a book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World....

Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 24 Sep 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this first episode, Per speaks ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #38/52: BEECLUST

Thomas Schmickl 22 Sep 2015

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