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    Pleurobot: Multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot
    The Pleurobot is a bioinspired robot being developed by the BioRob at EPFL and NCCR Robotics. Taking it's cues from the salamander, the Pleurobot is a walking robot that can change its gait to help it...
    12 February 2015, by

    The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio
    In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not just...
    12 February 2015, by

    Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach
    In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...
    12 February 2015, by

    DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch
    The Gazebo team has been hard at work setting up a simulation environment for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. The g...
    11 February 2015, by

    Introducing Spot, a new smaller 4-legged robot from Boston Dynamics
    [tweetquote]Boston Dynamics just released a video of a new four legged robot named “Spot”.[/tweetquote] It is an evolution along the lines of their previous four-legged robots like BigDog and Wild...
    09 February 2015, by

    Robotics Perception Group celebrates 3 year anniversary
    This week, Prof. Davide Scaramuzza's lab (RPG, UZH) turns three and, in typical robotics style, they've released a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi_YZlPva8&feature=youtu.be Congratu...
    09 February 2015, by



    The Year of CoCoRo Video #06/52: Jeff swarm size measurement
    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 ...
    08 February 2015, by

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #05/52: Lily swarm size awareness
    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 ...
    08 February 2015, by

    Programming safety into self-driving cars
    For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...
    06 February 2015, by

    Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship
    In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...
    06 February 2015, by

    Human insights inspire solutions for household robots
    People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Techn...
    05 February 2015, by

    Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics
    Much has been made of the numerous advances in robotic prosthetics and orthotics (P/O) over recent years, and the question of how to control these devices so that they work in accordance with the inte...
    04 February 2015, by

    Developing Jibo: Animating the eye
    Ever wonder why Jibo's eye was designed as a ball? And why does he have only one eye instead of two? Check out this video with Jibo’s Lead Designer & Animator, Fardad Faridi, as he briefly ...
    04 February 2015, by

    Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy
    On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...
    29 January 2015, by

    Raffaello D’Andrea on the future of robotics
    Raffaello D’Andrea’s robots can do amazing things: play soccer and ping-pong, perform complex choreographed acrobatics in the air, build towers brick by brick, and move pallets around warehouses. ...
    28 January 2015, by and

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour
    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 ...
    25 January 2015, by

    Open science: Preaching what I practice
    Open science isn't one thing - it is a set of practices that range from making sure your papers are openly accessible (which is relatively easy), to open notebook science, which makes the process ope...
    22 January 2015, by

    DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk
    The issue of how to use one robot across multiple terrains is an ongoing question in robotics research. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Ro...
    21 January 2015, by

    Swarmbots: James McLurkin on why, how, and when we will see swarm robotics in practice
    Link to audio file (27:29), or listen on iTunes James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS’s “Nova,” in additi...
    20 January 2015, by

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #03/52: Jeff robots explore
    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 ...
    18 January 2015, by

    Who will buy your bot? End user opportunities
    Unless robotics is just a hobby, commercial and funding opportunities should be at the forefront of every developer's mind and at the root of these are the end users and their needs. But who are the e...
    16 January 2015, by

    Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever
    Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
    15 January 2015, by

    Teaching a robot to ‘cook’ by showing it YouTube videos of cooking shows
    Most of us have at some point watched a video in order to learn how to do something. Our research shows that a robot can learn human actions by watching videos of humans performing those actions – i...
    14 January 2015, by , , and

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #02/52: Overview of largest swarm
    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 ...
    11 January 2015, by

    Revolutionary implant enables broken spinal cord to function again
    A team from EPFL and NCCR Robotics lead by Profs Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine and Silvestro Micera published an article in Science today describing their e-dura implant that could revo...
    08 January 2015, by

    iCub philosophy, history and recent results: Lecture by Giorgio Metta
    In this lecture, Giorgio Metta describes the history and philosophy behind the iCub project, and presents some recent results....
    08 January 2015, by

    Walking assistive devices for the elderly
    When thinking about robots that can be used to care for the elderly, most people imagine humanoid robots that are meant to help with cooking, cleaning and socializing. But what if robots could be u...
    07 January 2015, by and

    The Year of CoCoRo Video #01/52: Overview of the Jeff robot
    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 ...
    04 January 2015, by

    Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning
    Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
    01 January 2015, by

    Robot simulators and why I will probably reject your paper
    Dear robotics and AI researcher, Do you use simulation as a research tool? If you write papers with results based on simulation and submit them for peer-review, then be warned: if I should review y...
    18 December 2014, by

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