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Gazebo rendering abstraction

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 ...
30 September 2015, by

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

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...
29 September 2015, by

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

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...
29 September 2015, by

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

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....
25 September 2015, by

Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics

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 ...
24 September 2015, by and

The Year of CoCoRo Video #38/52: BEECLUST

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...
22 September 2015, by



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TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias

Transcript below In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
18 September 2015, by

Interview with Danica Kragic

In this wide ranging interview, Danica Kragic, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and General Chair of ICRA 2016, discusses the nature of collaborative research, shares her...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #37/52: Combined scenario two

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...
15 September 2015, by

Robots now have their own living space at Bristol Robotics Lab

Bristol Robotics Laboratory, one of the world’s leading centres for robotics, has opened a “living lab,” a replica apartment to test assistive robots designed to help elderly people live more in...
11 September 2015, by

Morphological computation: The hidden superpower of soft-bodied robots

Soft robots are versatile, often much safer, more energy-efficient, robust and resilient than their more rigid counterparts. But one of the biggest challenges facing soft robotics is control - often, ...
10 September 2015, by and

The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication

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...
01 September 2015, by

Evolved virtual creatures as content

Do you like cat videos? Or maybe you prefer golden eagles hunting goats by throwing them off cliffs? Or perhaps you favor strange new life forms, recently discovered at the bottom of the Pacific? Wha...
28 August 2015, by

Talking Machines: Active learning and machine learning in neuroscience, with Microsoft’s Sham Kakade

In episode eighteen we talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work that touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning....
27 August 2015, by

Removing steps of common processes

Being able to control the moment when concrete turns from liquid to solid is crucial for digitally fabricated concrete structures. The timing of this process can be controlled by tuning the chemistry ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #34/52: Relay chain basics

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...
25 August 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #33/52: Combined scenario number one – relay chain

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...
18 August 2015, by

Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten

In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of  Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology....
14 August 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #32/52: Combined scenario number one – target find

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 – we...
11 August 2015, by

Buzz: A novel programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms

A new programming language designed specifically for robot swarms, Buzz is based on the idea that a developer must be allowed to pick the most comfortable approach to behavioral design - whether that...

Robotic research: Are we applying the scientific method?

Once upon a time validation of robotic research was relatively straightforward. Let us assume, for example, that a researcher had published in a journal a novel adaptive control law with a numerical ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #31/52: Combined scenario number one – base station arrival

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 – we...
04 August 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #30/52: Combined scenario number one

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 – we...
29 July 2015, by
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Cheetah 2, with Sangbae Kim

Transcript included. In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Sangbae Kim, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 201...
24 July 2015, by

Repeatable robotics: Standards and benchmarks from frontier science to applied technology

In a recent article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Gianluca Antonelli suggests that the Grand Challenge of robotics is to systematize the way its research is conducted. At Robohub we believe this is...
23 July 2015, by

A new artificial compound eye

Taking cues from the natural world is growing ever more popular in robotics. This week, in a paper published by the Royal Society, a team from NCCR Robotics and LIS, EPFL present a revolutionary new ...
23 July 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #29/52: Jeff – preprogrammed trajectory

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 ...
22 July 2015, by

Could a robot make a pizza? The RoDyMan project, with Bruno Siciliano

In this video lecture, Bruno Siciliano from PRISMA Lab at the University of Naples, Italy, takes us through a new project in robotic dynamic manipulation, called RoDyMan. Centered on the task of ...

Really really big data and machine learning in business, with Max Welling

In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine ...
17 July 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #28/52: All magnet finding

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 ...
14 July 2015, by







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