Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls

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...

15 May 2013, by Sabine Hauert

The Swinging Blind Juggler

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...

03 May 2013, by Markus Waibel

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

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 ...

01 May 2013, by DigInfo TV

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

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 ...

26 April 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

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...

26 March 2013, by Guido de Croon

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

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...

05 March 2013, by Hallie Siegel

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

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....

04 March 2013, by Reno Tibke

Flying insects and robots

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

24 February 2013, by Sabine Hauert

Cell origami

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

19 February 2013, by Sabine Hauert

Power Loader power amplification exoskeleton robot

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...

08 January 2013, by DigInfo TV

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

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...

07 December 2012, by DigInfo TV

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

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 ...

13 November 2012, by DigInfo TV

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

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...

06 November 2012, by DigInfo TV

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

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...

18 October 2012, by DigInfo TV

Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong

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...

06 June 2011, by Ioannis K. Erripis

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