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Digital symbiosis lets robot co-workers predict human behaviour
Horizon Magazine
18 Aug 2017
by Anthony King
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk fear that the robotic revolution may already be underway, but automation isn’t going to take over just yet – first machines will work alongside us.
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Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
10 Aug 2016
In this article, our humanoid robot iCub is put to the test using manipulation and interaction as sources of knowledge and new experience, as well as, providing a means to explore and control the envi...
Nat Geo’s Robots 3D proves that robots don’t need to be sci-fi to be compelling
Adriana Hamacher
16 Jul 2015
Close up, in 3D, what jumps out at you is not just how astonishing today’s humanoid robots are, but also how miraculous the human body they mimic is. National Geographic’s Robots 3D is showing in ...
Complete force control in constrained under-actuated mechanical systems: Lecture by Francesco Nori
In this video lecture, Franceso Nori from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) walks us through the progress that's been made in humanoid robots in recent years. For example, the humanoids at ...
iCub philosophy, history and recent results: Lecture by Giorgio Metta
In this lecture, Giorgio Metta describes the history and philosophy behind the iCub project, and presents some recent results....
Making an iCub robot “clever”
Mike Hamer
23 Oct 2012
As part of the IM-CLeVeR project, the IDSIA robotics laboratory recently released a video-overview of their work on the technologies, architectures and algorithms required to give an iCub robot mo...
iCub drums and crawls using bio-inspired control
Sabine Hauert
17 Jan 2012
Ever see a lizard effortlessly run up a wall?
Like most vertebrates, lizards are able to quickly adapt to new environments in a robust way thanks to a special type of movement generator. The idea is ...
