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Efficient robotic components under development using fundamental mechanism research

DigInfo TV 26 Aug 2014

At the Morita Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Keio University Faculty of Science, researchers are advancing with research and development of unique robots from the perspective o...

3 Latest news breaks in emerging tech

Corrina Underwood and TechEmergence 25 Aug 2014

Pediatric Robot Surgeon According to a recent report from NASA, some of their engineers and a team of researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have recently developed a robotic su...

Bridge inspection robot detects corrosion in hard-to-reach spots | ETH News

Hallie Siegel 22 Aug 2014

The aim was to develop a robot that could detect corrosion in all areas – including sites inaccessible to people – and at the earliest possible stage. The researchers did not have to search long f...

ShanghAI Lectures: Rüdiger Dillmann “Programming by Demonstration”

Nathan Labhart 21 Aug 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Rüdiger Dillmann from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, talks about paradigms for robot learning and the proper...

Coordinated UAV docking

Autonomous Robots Blog 18 Aug 2014

This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be both safe and maneuverable, but their s...

Grasping with robots – which object is in reach?

Autonomous Robots Blog 17 Aug 2014

This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Imagine a robot reaching for a mug on the table, only to realize that it is too far,...

Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes

Sabine Hauert 14 Aug 2014

There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robo...

Targeting a robotic brain capable of thoughtful communication

DigInfo TV 11 Aug 2014

The Hagiwara Lab in the Department of Information and Computer Science of Keio University's Faculty of Science and Technology is trying to realize a robotic brain that can carry on a conversation, or ...

VertiKUL takes off like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing aircraft

Dronologista 05 Aug 2014

One of the main disadvantages of copter drones is their low energy efficiency: in order to create and maintain a sufficient lift, a lot of energy is needed, thus decreasing the endurance of the UAV. T...

This robot needs just a few seconds to learn to walk again after you break its legs

Hallie Siegel 04 Aug 2014

As we move slowly towards a future where robots are mobile, rather than bolted securely in-place on a production line, robots will begin to experience the same kind of bumps and bruises that humans e...

ShanghAI Lectures: Dustin Li “Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot”

Nathan Labhart 31 Jul 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-01 In this guest lecture, Dustin Li from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China, talks about the design of a robot that autonomously d...

What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?

Alan Winfield 28 Jul 2014

Want to create human-equivalent AI? Well, broadly speaking, there are three approaches open to you: design it, reverse-engineer it or evolve it. The third of these - artificial evolution - is attrac...

Rescue drone that finds survivors using their cellphones’ WiFi signals

Dronologista 25 Jul 2014

Search and rescue operations are increasingly using drones, and the speed and ease with which UAVs can be launched is especially important when applying them as an emergency response tool. Jonathan C...

New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers | MIT News

Hallie Siegel 18 Jul 2014

http://youtu.be/FTJW5YSRZhw Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. The device, worn around one’s wrist, works essentially like two extra fing...

Short CoCoRo AUV swarm underwater video

Thomas Schmickl 16 Jul 2014

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 �...

Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states | MIT News

Hallie Siegel 15 Jul 2014

http://youtu.be/aozu2C9Kmlg Read more on MIT News...

Building Social Robots: The Journey of Pleo

Bob Christopher and Jibo 11 Jul 2014

Building a robot company is difficult, very difficult. It requires unwavering belief in yourself, in your idea, in your team and ultimately in your product. But it is also one of the most thrilling ex...

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior”

Nathan Labhart 10 Jul 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17 In this guest lecture, Josh Bongard from the University of Vermont (USA) and co-author of How the body shapes the way we think (MIT Press), talks ab...

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”

Nathan Labhart 03 Jul 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10 In this guest lecture, Koh Hosoda from Osaka University, Japan, talks about human and humanoid intelligence, movement, and bouncing, and introduces t...

ShanghAI Lectures: Olivier Michel “Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots”

Nathan Labhart 19 Jun 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10 This presentation introduces Cyberbotics Ltd. with a little bit of history (where it came from), then it presents the Webots software that allows res...

Grasping objects in a way that is suitable for manipulation

Autonomous Robots Blog 19 Jun 2014

This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Robots are expected to manipulate a large variety of objects from our everyday lives...

Exoskeleton with haptic sensors helps paralysed man to kick off World Cup

NCCR Robotics 12 Jun 2014

VIDEO UPDATE 06/13 It’s June 2014 and all eyes are on Brazil. If you’re a football fan then June 12th is the day you’ve been waiting for, but eagle-eyed technophiles are likely to have noticed o...

Exclusive Q&A: World cup kickoff looms for demo of brain-controlled machine | Science

Hallie Siegel 12 Jun 2014

During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic young person wearing a brain-controlle...

ShanghAI Lectures: Fabio Bonsignorio “Embodied Finance: Embodying Disruptive Innovation in Embodied Cognitive Systems”

Nathan Labhart 12 Jun 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03 In this guest lecture, Fabio Bonsignorio from University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, talks about issues with innovation and robotic startup companie...

Research Group from University of Zurich wins KUKA Innovation Award

NCCR Robotics 10 Jun 2014

The team collect their award at the Automatica fair in Munich, June 2014. Four researchers from Davide Scaramuzza’s Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, have won ...

Droplets: A low-cost swarm robotics platform for teaching and experimentation

Nikolaus Correll 02 Jun 2014

We have developed a new swarm robotic platform that falls in size, cost and capability between Harvard’s kilobot and the e-Puck. The Droplet is almost spherical, can self-right after being poured ou...

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