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CoCoRo Target Detection 2013

Thomas Schmickl 29 May 2013

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 �...

CoCoRo swarm size awareness 2013

Thomas Schmickl 29 May 2013

New additive manufacturing method builds up objects with real 3D curves instead of 2D layers

Hallie Siegel 21 May 2013

Mataerial is a new 3D printing method that uses extrusion technology and a two-component thermosetting polymer to build up objects on any working surface that the polymer can adhere to, including flo...

Plug-and-play artificial compound eye for robotic applications

Sabine Hauert 20 May 2013

Flies have small brains that would not be able to process high-resolution images such as those that we see with our own eyes. Instead, they've perfected the use of compound eyes, composed of a dense m...

Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls

Sabine Hauert 15 May 2013

The Airburr, a light-weight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my PhD lab) at EPFL, was designed to fly in cluttered environments. Unlike most flying robot, which avoid contact a...

The Swinging Blind Juggler

Markus Waibel 03 May 2013

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...

SOINN artificial brain can now use the internet to learn new things

DigInfo TV 01 May 2013

A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how ...

Rethink Robotics and Aldebaran both launch robots for research, teaching and custom development

Frank Tobe 26 Apr 2013

Rethink Robotics just launched a version of their Baxter robot armed with a new SDK providing educators and researchers with almost limitless capabilities at an affordable cost. Using ROS and the new ...

Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft

Guido de Croon 26 Mar 2013

Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.Drone and a scientific crowd-sourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous spac...

Designed to mingle: Rezero ballbot’s smooth moves can handle a crowd

Hallie Siegel 05 Mar 2013

Designing robots that can function outside of controlled, factory environments isn’t easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to...

Know your robot space torsos: Justin, Robonaut, SAR-400, & AILA

Reno Tibke 04 Mar 2013

Astronauts: awesome, but only human It's cold out there beyond the blue. Full of radiation. Low on breathable air. Vacuous. It's hard to keep machines and organic creatures functioning and/or alive....

Flying insects and robots

Sabine Hauert 24 Feb 2013

TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....

Cell origami

Sabine Hauert 19 Feb 2013

A couple years back, a team from Harvard and MIT developed a sheet of "programmable matter" that could fold into 3D structures....

Power Loader power amplification exoskeleton robot

DigInfo TV 08 Jan 2013

This power amplification robot, called Power Loader, is currently under development by Activelink, a Panasonic subsidiary venture. The aim is to achieve a robot that can freely utilize power beyond...

See and feel virtual water with this immersive crossmodal perception system from Solidray

DigInfo TV 07 Dec 2012

Solidray, which is involved in virtual reality production, has released an immersive crossmodal system incorporating visual and tactile feedback, enabling the user to see and feel flowing water in a v...

Brain Computer Interface used to control the movement and actions of an android robot

DigInfo TV 13 Nov 2012

Researchers at the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory and the CNRS-LIRMM Interactive Digital Human group, are working on ways to control robots via thought alone. "Basically we would like to create ...

Optical camouflage tech removes backseat of a car, transparent interior the goal

DigInfo TV 06 Nov 2012

A system that makes the backseat of a car look transparent is currently being developed by a research group at Keio University. The system applies optical camouflage technology, using...

World’s first all rubber speaker made from artificial muscles is thin, soft and bassy

DigInfo TV 18 Oct 2012

Tokai Rubber Industries has developed the world's first all-rubber speaker. This speaker utilizes Smart Rubber, which conducts electricity and can freely expand or contract, to generate sound. Prev...

Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong

Ioannis K. Erripis 06 Jun 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...