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Bionic athletes compete in disciplines drawn from everyday life

ETH Zurich 21 May 2015

By: Vanessa Bleich Next year's Cybathlon will host people with physical disabilities equipped with advanced assistive devices including robotic technologies. The goal of this unique competition is to...

Architectural robots: The shape of the robots that will shape your home

Petr Novikov and DOM 21 May 2015

While robots are being deployed in factories at a high pace, their presence on construction sites is close to nil. However, there are many architectural robotics research projects in academia, and du...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #19/52: Electric confinement in the harbour

Thomas Schmickl 20 May 2015

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

Robotics Fast Track now accepting applications

Open Source Robotics Foundation 19 May 2015

We’re excited to announce that OSRF and BIT Systems are seeking innovative and revolutionary robotics projects for the Robotics Fast Track (RFT) effort, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Pr...

A self-deploying, foldable quadrotor for rapid rescue

NCCR Robotics 18 May 2015

The use of robots to find victims after natural disasters is fast becoming commonplace, with well documented cases where robots have been sent into areas too dangerous for rescue workers. While the ...

Human-robot emotional and musical interactions: Lecture by Massimiliano Zecca

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 15 May 2015

In this video lecture, Massimiliano Zecca from the Healthcare Technology and Head of the Healthcare Technology group at Loughborough University discusses emotional robotics, musical robotics and...

Talking Machines: Interdisciplinary data, with David Blei

Talking Machines 07 May 2015

[clear] In Episode 10 we talk with David Blei of Columbia University. We talk about his work on latent dirichlet allocation, topic models, the PhD program in data that he’s helping to create at C...

Two new soft robotics competitions announced by Soft Robotics Toolkit

Soft Robotics Toolkit 06 May 2015

The Soft Robotics Toolkit recently announced two competitions for robotics research and design. In July 2015, two expert panels will award prizes to soft robotics projects submitted by students, resea...

Noonee testing Chairless Chair exoskeleton at Audi production plants

NCCR Robotics 06 May 2015

Last month, Swiss startup noonee completed the first round of testing for their Chairless Chair with German car manufacturer Audi. The Chairless Chair is a wearable sitting exoskeleton for peopl...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #18/52: Confining Jeff robots with an electric field

Thomas Schmickl 04 May 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #17/52: Lily confinement by bluelight

Thomas Schmickl 30 Apr 2015

CoCoRo: New video series tracks dev’t of collective behaviour in autonomous underwater swarm

Thomas Schmickl 28 Apr 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project comprises the largest autonomous underwater swarm in the world. Following three-and-a-half years of intensive research, CoCoRo's interdi...

People and Robots: UC’s new multidisciplinary CITRIS initiative wants humans in the loop

Andra Keay and Hallie Siegel 22 Apr 2015

Since 2001, the University of California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) has leveraged multi-disciplinary research to tackle large societal proble...

Japan looks to distributed, cooperative control to help manage energy market deregulation

DigInfo TV 21 Apr 2015

Japan's power industry is currently centralized, but it aims to deregulate by around 2020. Coupled with this major structural market change, the expansion of thermal, nuclear and renewable power gener...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #16/52: JeffCam in a lake

Thomas Schmickl 19 Apr 2015

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Soft Robotics Toolkit, with Donal Holland

Ron Vanderkley 17 Apr 2015

In this podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks to Donal Holland of Harvard University about his team’s work on the Soft Robotics Toolkit....

Tracing human evolution with robots

ETH Zurich 16 Apr 2015

By Samuel Schlaefli With the help of robots, archaeologists may soon be able to compare their findings with data from thousands of experimental reference samples, enabling them to determine tool us...

Virtual role-play and robo-tutors

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 14 Apr 2015

Cyberlearning project teaches language and cross-cultural communication with avatars and robots. Communication skills are critical in a global economy. Since communication often occurs across cu...

Researchers use artificial tail to study how we adapt to brain-machine interfaces

DigInfo TV 13 Apr 2015

Researchers from the Keio Institue of Pure and Applied Sciences (KiPAS) are working to reveal the mechanism by which newly acquired knowledge and information is transmitted and evolves among organisms...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #15/52: TRAILER LilyCam in a wild river

Thomas Schmickl 12 Apr 2015

Talking Machines: Spinning programming plates and creative algorithms, with Charles Sutton

Talking Machines 09 Apr 2015

In episode eight we talk with Charles Sutton, a professor in the School of Informatics University of Edinburgh about computer programming and using machine learning to better understand how it’s d...

Unpowered exoskeleton improves efficiency of human walking

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 08 Apr 2015

Humans have evolved to be incredibly efficient at walking. In fact, simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground and at a steady speed should theoretically require no power input ...

Complete force control in constrained under-actuated mechanical systems: Lecture by Francesco Nori

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 07 Apr 2015

In this video lecture, Franceso Nori from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) walks us through the progress that's been made in humanoid robots in recent years. For example, the humanoids at ...

Video: Giving robots and prostheses a sense of touch

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 07 Apr 2015

The UCLA Biomechatronics Lab develops a language of touch that can be "felt" by computers and humans alike. Research engineers and students in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Biomech...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #14/52: LilyCam in a Lake

Thomas Schmickl 05 Apr 2015

Deep Learning Primer

Frank Tobe 02 Apr 2015

The technology that unlocks intelligence from big data - deep learning - is explained in this video by Max Welling, a professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a founder of the Dutch deep learnin...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #13/52: Lilycam in nature

Thomas Schmickl 29 Mar 2015

Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing

Stela Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King and Jim Young 27 Mar 2015

In the future, robots will be in our daily lives: homes, schools, offices, factories, even restaurants. The field of social robotics looks at how these robots can interact with people socially, just l...

Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani

Talking Machines 26 Mar 2015

In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...

The Year of CoCoRo Video#12/52: Fun with Jeff in the pool

Thomas Schmickl 22 Mar 2015

Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)

Talking Machines 17 Mar 2015

We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #11/52: Out of the lab in Livorno

Thomas Schmickl 15 Mar 2015

Revolutionising building and construction sites

ETH Zurich 10 Mar 2015

By Felix Würsten and Corinne Hodel (Interview). Digital technologies have already turned many areas of the economy inside out. In this interview with Swiss NCCR Digital Fabrication researchers M...

Surgical micro-robot swarms: Science fiction, or realistic prospect?

Alan Winfield 09 Mar 2015

Imagine a swarm of microscopic robots that we inject into the vascular system: the swarm swims to the source of the problem, then either delivers therapeutics or undertakes microsurgery directly. T...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #10/52: Feeding Jeff with magnets

Thomas Schmickl 08 Mar 2015

EG Robotics: Building a robotics ecosystem in Egypt

Mahmoud AbdelAziz 03 Mar 2015

Expanding into emerging markets brings with it a specific set of challenges for designing products and services. Not only do cultural differences play a role in what, how, and why customers behave the...

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