IROS 2014

UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 27 Jan 2015

Some new results from the NGV Team at the University of Michigan describe different approaches for perception (detecting obstacles on the road) and localizations (figuring out precisely where you are)...

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Finding Objects Using RFID, with Travis Deyle

Sabine Hauert 15 Nov 2014

Full transcript below. In this episode, Sabine Hauert speaks with Travis Deyle, about his IROS-nominated work on RFID tags, his blog Hizook, and the career path that brought him from academia, to fou...

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Quest for Computer Vision, with Peter Corke

Audrow Nash 03 Oct 2014

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about computer vision - the subject of his plenary talk at IROS 2014 (link to slides below). He begins ...

Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014

Mathieu Labbé 03 Oct 2014

Last month at IROS the SV-ROS team Maxed-Out won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge. In this post Mathieu Labbé describes the mapping approach the team used to help them win....

SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge

Patrick Goebel 29 Sep 2014

A few weeks ago, Pi Robot and I joined the Silicon Valley ROS Users Group (SV-ROS) to help with the effort (already under way) to prepare for a challenging robot navigation contest held at the end ...

IROS Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 3)

Robohub Editors 26 Sep 2014

More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS: soft untethered robots that jump, visual localization within LIDAR maps, time-delayed tele-operated surgical robotics, and grippers. See also Part ...

Watch this crazy drone with arms fly and turn a wheel in mid-air | TIME

Andra Keay 22 Sep 2014

I, for one, welcome our new armed-drone overlordsSource: time.comSee on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 2)

Robohub Editors 20 Sep 2014

More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS. See also Part 1....

10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum

Shima Rayej 18 Sep 2014

How do I get to MVP? How do I take my existing technology to a different market? How do I attract outside funding for my idea? Does IP matter? (The answer to the last question is yes, although researc...

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 1)

Robohub Editors 17 Sep 2014

The 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) is on in Chicago, and members of the robotics research community have descended on the Windy City. This year th...

Women in engineering at IROS 2014

Andra Keay 16 Sep 2014

[tweetquote]Shame that the missing engineering hero on the cover of IEEE Spectrum's July issue looks like superMAN[/tweetquote], because the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) lunch at IROS 2014 was a su...