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Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures
MIT News
25 Nov 2022
Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.
Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble
MIT News
26 Oct 2022
Researchers create a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about what they connect with, enabling more-scalable self-assembly.
Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer space
MIT News
25 Feb 2022
Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.
IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Hod Lipson: Can we design self-aware robots?
Marwa ElDiwiny
13 Jan 2021
Interesting discussion with Hod Lipson, head of Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University in New York. Can robots be self-aware? Can they design other robots and self-repair? Why should we evolve rob...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
Thilo Zimmermann
07 Dec 2019
At Danfoss in Gråsten, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) is testing, as part of a pilot project in the European robot network ROBOTT-NET, several robot technologies: Manipulation using force s...
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294
podcast
Autonomous Bricklaying by FBR, with Mark Pivac
Ron Vanderkley
18 Sep 2019
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Mark Pivac, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of FBR (formerly Fastbrick Robotics) about the world’s first end-to-end autonomous bricklaying robot, ...
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254
podcast
Collaborative Systems for Drug Discovery, with Peter Harris
Abate De Mey
18 Feb 2018
In this episode, Abate interviews Peter Harris from HighRes Biosolutions about automation in the field of drug discovery. At HighRes Biosolutions they are developing modular robotic systems that work ...
TrotBot take two: Galloping like a horse
Ben Vagle
04 May 2017
Hi, I’m Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a mini-van (you can read my original post here). Now, at DIYwalke...
The cheap arm project: An affordable, open-source robotics project
Dominic Cassidy and Guido Bugmann
30 Mar 2017
What do you get when you put together wood and rope? Well according to Plymouth University's Professor Guido Bugmann: a low-cost, open source, 2 meter tall robot! All buildable for under £2000. The C...
QuadBot: The 3D printed crab-bot scuttling beyond its Kickstarter goal
Josh Elijah
09 Dec 2016
Robotics is becoming more accessible for many people, but the complexities of legged robots mean they remain beyond the reach of most consumers. The complex mechanics, electronics and code algorithms ...
Care-O-bot 4 celebrates its premiere as a shopping assistant
Fraunhofer IPA
14 Nov 2016
In January 2015, Fraunhofer IPA presented a prototype of the “Care-O-bot 4” service robot. The charming helper is now proving its worth in the real world. “Paul” the robot has been greeting cu...
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221
podcast
Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hasier Larrea, Founder and CEO of Ori Systems and MSc candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about robotics used to transform personal spaces. Larrea discusses how the...
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
08 Nov 2016
What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
Justin Kim
26 Oct 2016
Developed by a team at the University of Toronto, mROBerTO (milli-ROBot TORonto) is designed for swarm-robotics researchers who might wish to test their collective-behavior algorithms with real physic...
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218
podcast
RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
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211
podcast
ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier
Audrow Nash
25 Jun 2016
This is the second of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society...
ShanghAI Lectures: Serge Kernbach “Collective and Modular Robotics: Fundamentials and Frontiers”
Nathan Labhart
27 Feb 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-02
Collective systems play very important role on Earth, and we encounter them in all sizes, scales and forms; in biological and technological areas; in...
Sandia Hand has interchangeable fingers
John Payne
19 Aug 2012
(SandiaLabs) "Sandia National Laboratories has developed a cost-effective robotic hand that can be used in disarming improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. The Sandia Hand addresses challenges that h...
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098
podcast
Self-organizing systems, with Radhika Nagpal
Podcast team
24 Feb 2012
Link to audio file (43:40)In today’s episode we focus on self-organizing systems in modular and swarm robotics with Radhika Nagpal, director of the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group at the ...
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091
podcast
Connectors & modular robots, with Martin Nilsson
Per Sjöborg
18 Nov 2011
Link to audio file (44:00)In today’s show we hear from our new collaborator, Per Sjoborg who is the founder of Flexibility Envelope, a blog on self-reconfiguring modular robotics. He speaks to M...
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059
podcast
Programmable matter, with Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert
Podcast team
27 Aug 2010
Link to audio file (40:57)In this episode we dive into the world of programmable matter with Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert from the Computational Synthesis Laboratory run by Hod Lipson at Cornell U...
