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    Mark Stephen Meadows on “Do robots need heads?”
    I don't know about you, but if something has a head I assume it has thoughts. When watching a movie I stare at the character's face because I want to know what they feel. So for me a head's a pretty i...
    15 August 2013, by

    Travis Deyle on “Do robots need heads?”
    The obvious answer to this question is "No: there are lots of robots without heads." It's not even clear that social robots necessarily require a head, as even mundane robots like the Roomba are anthr...
    15 August 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which however c...
    14 August 2013, by

    CSAIL demos two robots assembling IKEA furniture
    ... At last week’s White House Google+ Hangout, Daniela Rus, the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), demonstrated two robots working together to asse...
    11 August 2013, by

    Dash launching Dragon hardware crowdfunding platform
    Dash is the first product to launch today on Dragon Innovation‘s new hardware crowdfunding site. Dragon Innovation was founded in 2009 by Scott Miller and Herman Pang, ex iRobot and Hasbro. Dragon a...
    08 August 2013, by

    In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)
    This article discusses how body language is a part of natural language, personality, and NLP design. The article covers various methods for approaching this problem and makes recommendations for the r...
    07 August 2013, by



    When robots start telling each other stories…
    About 6 years ago the late amazing Richard Gregory said to me, with a twinkle in his eye, "when your robots start telling each other stories, then you'll really be onto something". It was a remark wit...
    31 July 2013, by

    World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for ‘imperceptible electronics’
    Researchers from Asia and Europe have developed the world's lightest and thinnest organic circuits, which in the future could be used in a range of healthcare applications. Lighter than a feather, ...
    29 July 2013, by

    Multi-purpose wings allow flying robot to walk across rough terrain
    The Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot (DALER) uses its own wings to crawl and roll over a variety of terrains. Using a self-adjusting structure to transform its wings into rotating arms, the robo...
    26 July 2013, by and

    Outdoor autonomous systems, with Jonathan Roberts

    Link to audio file (44:12) In this episode, we speak with Jonathan Roberts, research director of the Autonomous Systems Lab at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Brisbane Australia. Roberts leads a team of more...
    26 July 2013, by

    DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids
      Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...
    24 July 2013, by

    Robotics has a new kind of Cartesian Dualism, and it’s just as unhelpful
    I believe robotics has re-invented mind-body dualism. At the excellent European Robotics Forum earlier this year, I attended a workshop called AI meets Robotics....
    22 July 2013, by

    Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics
      As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...
    18 July 2013, by and

    China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation
      With the rapid economic development of the last twenty years resulting in the accumulation of great wealth, China urgently feels the need to move from a manufacturing-driven economy to an innovati...
    17 July 2013, by

    Neurorobotics hopes to aid development of brain-like computing technology, new diagnosis/treatment methods for Alzheimers
      Neurorobotics is one of the most ambitious fields in robotics and will play a major role in the newly announced Human Brain Project. This project was selected by the European Commission as a flags...
    16 July 2013, by

    Why fostering high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship matters to the economy, and what universities can do about it
    For many people, the term “innovation” implies having a great idea, and hoping that somehow it will take off. According to H. Chesbrough, this is clearly insufficient, and in his definition, he is...
    11 July 2013, by and

    DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results
    The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...
    27 June 2013, by

    The OpenROV project, with Eric Stackpole and David Lang

    Link to audio file (34:33)In the episode, we speak with Eric Stackpole and David Lang from the OpenROV project about their challenge in developing Eric’s idea to find an easy way to explore a c...
    14 June 2013, by

    The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight
    "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" — a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array: a modular robot consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take ...
    12 June 2013, by

    Quadrocopters learn from prior experience to improve slalom flying
    A new video released today by researchers from the Flying Machine Arena shows how a quadrocopter is able to learn from prior experience to improve future performance. This new research is an extens...
    11 June 2013, by

    Video of human controlling a quadrotor via non-invasive brain/computer interface
    Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a non-invasive brain/computer interface that allows humans to remotely control a robot (in this case, a quadrotor) using only their thought...
    04 June 2013, by

    Feel the edges and contours of virtual objects with this haptic system from NHK
    With the aim of implementing a television service which allows viewers to touch virtual objects, NHK is developing a tactile system which applies stimuli to five points on one finger, making objects f...
    03 June 2013, by

    Curved Artificial Compound Eye, with Ramon Pericet Camara and Michal Dobrzynski

    Link to audio file (22:01)In this episode, we speak with Ramon Pericet and Michal Dobrzynski from EPFL about their Curved Artificial Compound Eye (CurvACE) published in the Proceedings of the National...
    31 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo Impressions 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo Target Detection 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo swarm size awareness 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo Swarm Control 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    CoCoRo shoaling 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 ...
    29 May 2013, by

    New additive manufacturing method builds up objects with real 3D curves instead of 2D layers
    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...
    21 May 2013, by

    Plug-and-play artificial compound eye for robotic applications
    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...
    20 May 2013, by

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