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    Research Group from University of Zurich wins KUKA Innovation Award
    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 ...
    10 June 2014, by

    Droplets: A low-cost swarm robotics platform for teaching and experimentation
    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...
    02 June 2014, by
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    Russian robotics, with Roman Luchin and Andrew Gryaznov

    In this episode, Sabine speaks with Andrew Gryaznov, co-founder of Cubic Robotics and Roman Luchin, CEO of CyberTech Labs, about robotics in Russia. They provide us with an inside view on robotics edu...
    30 May 2014, by

    Advanced nanometer-scale manufacturing technologies
    From astronomical telescopes to household-use cameras, from aircraft to cellphones, from semiconductor devices to medical instruments …  All kinds of optical, mechanical, and electronic products ar...
    27 May 2014, by

    Transforming robots to transform your room
    In the future, Roombots could replace furniture (Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL). The word “robot” conjures up many different things to many people, but how many of them immediately think of furnit...
    24 May 2014, by

    ROS in the cockpit
    There's a new DARPA-funded effort to develop software and hardware to assist pilots in various kinds of aircraft. The program is called ALIAS, for Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (apparentl...
    21 May 2014, by



    Fast robot arm catches flying objects | Automaton
    At the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at EPFL, they're leveraging fast vision, fast computers, fast controllers, fast motors, programming by demonstration, and object modeling to be able ...
    15 May 2014, by

    Grasping unknown objects
    This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. To manipulate objects, robots are often required to estimate their position and orie...
    06 May 2014, by

    Gzweb for mobile platforms
    Gzweb Mobile from OSRF on Vimeo. During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Louise Poubel made Gzweb work on mobile platforms by designing a mobile-friendly interface and imp...
    05 May 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 10 – Future Trends
    This week we publish the tenth and last of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub. We have been releasing  a new lecture from this series on Monday for several weeks and this is the last one....
    28 April 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-11-18 Sensorimotor interaction between an agent and its environment seems to be the key ingredient to develop intelligent behaviour. In this talk, the impo...
    17 April 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-10-21 In this guest presentation, Patrick van der Smagt talks about biomimetic approaches to robot control, kinematics, grasping, and ways to use the human...
    10 April 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 9 – Towards a theory of intelligence
    Lecture 9: Towards a theory of intelligence This lecture, which I hosted at the the University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), suggests principles and design guidelines for the development of embodied ...
    07 April 2014, by

    Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel

    Link to audio file (28:48)In this episode, we talk to Justin Werfel from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University about their latest paper published in Science o...
    04 April 2014, by

    The intersection of engineering and neuroscience: Dan Bacher on BrainGate and assistive technologies
    Dan Bacher has always been fascinated by two things: electrical engineering and neuroscience. While these interests may seem divergent, the synthesis of them led him to Brown University’s BrainGate ...
    01 April 2014, by and

    ShanghAI Lectures: Nikolaos Mavridis “Robots, language, and social networks”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 The lecture starts with a short introduction to the Interactive Robots and Media Lab and the United Arab Emirates. Then, it continues by exploring so...
    27 March 2014, by

    Finding perfection in the imperfect: Applying Darwinian neuro-evolution to robotics
    When it comes to complex tasks like building a house, many people with different skills work together to accomplish a single, larger goal. Instead of trying to create a perfect robot capable of buildi...
    25 March 2014, by and

    PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem
    Ever since Apple bought Prime Sense, roboticists have been asking what’s going to fill the gap. Robots need to know where they are and what’s around them. The Carmine, and the unveiled but undeliv...
    24 March 2014, by

    Self-contained soft-bodied robotic fish
    What looks like a fish, swims like a fish but isn’t a fish? The latest in soft-bodied robots created by team of engineers of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at th...
    19 March 2014, by and

    ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session
    Lecture 8-II: Education and Industry Session This lecture hosted by Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, is about higher education and industrial impact of the ...
    18 March 2014, by

    Machine consciousness: Fact or fiction?
    My workday is over. What do I want to do now? I picture calling my wife to suggest dinner at that nice Italian restaurant and imagine the taste of gnocchi quattro formaggi. Then I remember promising ...
    10 March 2014, by and

    Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
    Photo by Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology A paper in Nature Communications earlier this year reports on "bio-bots". These tiny machines inspired by sperm, are ...
    10 March 2014, by and

    ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-I – Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition
    Lecture 8-I: Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition In this lecture, hosted at the University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, I show how it is possible to ground ‘understanding...
    10 March 2014, by

    The gateway to advanced neuroprosthetics: Jessica Feldman talks BrainGate and BCI
    If the human brain is considered a computer, what does that mean for science and our lives? Could we repair damaged areas, replace damaged parts, or even upgrade our own minds? It might sound like lit...
    07 March 2014, by and

    Engineers build brain-controlled music player
    Imagine if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri and his team of researchers from the Department of Systems and Control Engineering and th...
    04 March 2014, by and

    Academic and industry collaboration (Part 4): Interview with Raffaello D’Andrea
    In this 4th interview of our four-part ECHORD series, conducted last June, Sascha Griffiths from TUM talks to Raffaello D'Andrea, Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich and technical c...
    28 February 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Serge Kernbach “Collective and Modular Robotics: Fundamentials and Frontiers”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-02 Collective systems play very important role on Earth, and we encounter them in all sizes, scales and forms; in biological and technological areas; in...
    27 February 2014, by

    Using geometry to help robots map their environment
    This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. To get around unknown environments, most robots will need to build maps. To help the...
    26 February 2014, by

    From disembodied bytes to robots that think and act like humans
    When IBM’s Watson supercomputer triumphed over two top Jeopardy champions in February 2011, the media buzzed with talk of artificial intelligence (AI), just as it had fourteen years earlier wh...
    25 February 2014, by and

    Why intelligence requires both body and brain
    Western philosophy has traditionally separated mind from matter and brain from body. In recent years, however, cognitive scientists have turned the assumption on its head that we can study the mind b...
    18 February 2014, by and

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