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    “Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours
    [clear] Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office  To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes — from Earth’s changing climate ...
    17 November 2015, by

    A new versatile gripper with electroadhesion
    From early childhood, when a person picks up an object using their hands they use haptic feedback to automatically adjust the force of their grip according to the object they are lifting. A completely...
    11 November 2015, by

    Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups
    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, Andra Keay, directo...
    10 November 2015, by and

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #45/52: Swarm control
    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...
    10 November 2015, by

    Bioinspired robotics #2: Materials, manufacturing & design, with Robert Wood
    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...
    09 November 2015, by

    Emotionally literate tech to help treat autism
    Few could deny the power of computer games and avatars to entertain us and perhaps even educate us. But now researchers are turning to internet and robotic technologies to develop new ways of helping ...
    06 November 2015, by and



    Talking Machines: Digital humanities with David Mimno
    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...
    06 November 2015, by

    Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph: Video demo
    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...
    03 November 2015, by

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #44/52: Lily shoaling
    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...
    03 November 2015, by

    Robots in Depth: Michael Rubenstein on the challenge of building 1,024 Kilobots
    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...
    30 October 2015, by and

    Four-legged robot that efficiently handles challenging terrain
    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...
    30 October 2015, by

    Four influential technologies with roots in robotics
    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....
    29 October 2015, by and

    Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal
    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...
    28 October 2015, by

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching
    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...
    27 October 2015, by

    Crowdsourcing in machine learning, with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research
    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...
    26 October 2015, by

    RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea
    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...
    24 October 2015, by

    Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
    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...
    22 October 2015, by

    Liatris: looking to change how robots see the world
    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...
    20 October 2015, by

    The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud
    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...
    20 October 2015, by

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #42/52: Murky waters
    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 CooRo – we...
    20 October 2015, by

    Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
    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...
    15 October 2015, by

    Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization
    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, Tully Foote -- ROS...
    14 October 2015, by and

    Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini
    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...
    14 October 2015, by

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #41/52: Metacognition
    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 CooRo – we...
    13 October 2015, by

    In-situ Fabricator: An autonomous construction robot
    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 ...
    09 October 2015, by

    Talking Machines: Treating cancer clusters, with Quaid Morris
    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. ...
    09 October 2015, by

    Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread
    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...
    07 October 2015, by and

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #40/52: Adaptive layers water column
    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 CooRo – we...
    06 October 2015, by

    Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
    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...
    05 October 2015, by and
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    Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson

    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...
    02 October 2015, by

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