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Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials
Simone Schürle
26 Jun 2013
Unlike larger robots, microrobots for applications in the body are too small to carry batteries and motors. To address this challenge, we power and control robots made of magnetic materials using exte...
The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight
Raymond Oung
12 Jun 2013
"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 ...
Timelapse: Building an arena for flying robots | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
12 Jun 2013
Our photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot time-lapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away for hours and days. In his latest piece, he tracks the c...
TED Global 2013 speaker Lian Pin Koh on “Conservation Drones”
Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich
11 Jun 2013
Lian Pin Koh (left) and Serge Wich (right) in Zurich with an early prototype of Conservation Drone.
TED Global speaker/drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh and fellow researcher Serge Wich share how drones a...
Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans
Robohub Editors
11 Jun 2013
Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013.
Update with the full video below
Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session...
Behind the scenes at TED Global: Raffaello D’Andrea and team demo amazing quadrotor “athletes”
Markus Waibel and Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
With reporting and photos by Dario Brescianini and Mark Mueller and timelapse video by James Duncan Davidson.
Raffaello D'Andrea juggles quadrotors at TED Global 2013.
A quadrocopter swoops th...
Athletic machines: Raffaello D’Andrea at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
“Athletic” is a term we use to describe human beings. But could it also be used to describe a machine?
In a demo recorded yesterday in his robot lab at TEDGlobal 2013, systems engineer Raffaell...
Those Flying Things: The speakers in Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
When it comes to drones, a lot of ideas float in the ether. Technologists see potential for flying machines to help us in all sorts of unexpected ways, governments take measures that seem hard and fix...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”
Nathan Labhart
25 Apr 2013
In the 9th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, we look at ontogenetic development as Rolf Pfeifer talks about the path from locomotion to cognition. This is followed by two guest lectures: The first ...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 6 “Evolution: Cognition from scratch”
Nathan Labhart
30 Mar 2013
In this sixth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer introduces the topic “Artificial Evolution” and gives examples of evolutionary processes in artificial intelligence. The first guest...
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...
Rapyuta: The RoboEarth Cloud Engine
Dominique Hunziker
25 Feb 2013
In recent years cloud computing has made an entrance into our lives. Naturally, this begs the question how cloud computing can be used in robotics applications. With Rapyuta, the RoboEarth Cloud Engin...
Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
Markus Waibel
21 Feb 2013
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...
Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains feedback control and talks about the coming Machine Revolution
Markus Waibel
04 Feb 2013
During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D'Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group's impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing, an...
Analysis: Robot learning in the cloud
Markus Waibel
21 Jan 2013
Cloud robotics, a shorthand for the idea of leveraging the Internet for robots, offers unprecedented opportunities for robot learning. Apart from using the World Wide Web for faster communication or f...
Robot holiday season videos 2012
Markus Waibel
18 Dec 2012
My colleagues at the Autonomous Systems Christmas Lab at ETH Zurich have created an awesome Christmas video featuring some of their cool robots:...
Video: Quadrocopter learns from its mistakes, perfects air racing
Markus Waibel
08 Nov 2012
Manual programming of robots only gets you so far. And, as you can see in the video, for quadrocopters that's not very far at all (see the "Without Learning" part starting at 1:30):...
Ball rolling robots
Wolfgang Heller
25 Oct 2012
San Francisco based Bossa Nova Robotics develops personal robots for the home based on the ballbot technology under license from CMU. Founded by robotics entrepreneur Sarjoun Skaff as a spin-off out o...
[IROS 2012] With your help, the Iuro robot finds its way through cities | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
15 Oct 2012
This giant bobblehead robot asks people for directions to get where it needs to go...
See on spectrum.ieee.org...
Video: Watch flying robots cooperate, throw and catch balls
Markus Waibel
27 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyGJBV1xnJI
My colleagues at the ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have just released a new video. Here is what Robin Ritz, Lead Researcher on the project, has ...
Microlecture: How to engineer a dog
Markus Waibel
26 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igNZiVtbxU
The Legged Robotics Team at ETH Zurich's Autonomous Systems Lab is doing research to build fast, versatile, and efficient quadrupedal robots. Th...
ETH summer school on soft robotics
Markus Waibel
17 Aug 2012
ETH Zurich's summer school on Soft Robotics is over. But as of today, you can have a look at the lecture videos and lecture material online!
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Bringing them to market, with Steven Cousins and Roland Siegwart
Podcast team
20 Apr 2012
Link to audio file (26:07)Following up on Episode 99, this episode features Steven Cousins and Roland Siegwart, whom we had the pleasure to meet at the SCHUNK Expert Days, organized by SCHUNK GmbH thi...
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Dynamic systems, with Raffaello D’Andrea
Podcast team
23 Mar 2012
Link to audio file (31:06)Link to transcriptTo celebrate our 100th episode, we welcome Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor at ETHZ and co-founder of Kiva Systems....
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Demonstrations at IROS, with Péter Fankhauser and Mike Rubenstein
Podcast team
21 Oct 2011
Link to audio file (28:47)In today’s show, we hear about two demonstrations that caught our attention at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Péter Fa...
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Distributed flight array, with Raymond Oung
Podcast team
13 Aug 2010
Link to audio file (20:43)
In this episode, we discover an aerial modular robot called the Distributed Flight Array. To talk about this, we have Raymond Oung from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tec...
