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Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures
Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.
25 November 2022, by
MIT News
Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble
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.
26 October 2022, by
MIT News
Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer space
Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.
25 February 2022, by
MIT News
IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Hod Lipson: Can we design self-aware robots?
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...
13 January 2021, by
Marwa ElDiwiny
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
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...
07 December 2019, by
Thilo Zimmermann
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294
podcast
Autonomous Bricklaying by FBR, with Mark Pivac
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, ...
18 September 2019, by
Ron Vanderkley
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254
podcast
Collaborative Systems for Drug Discovery, with Peter Harris
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 ...
18 February 2018, by
Abate De Mey
TrotBot take two: Galloping like a horse
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...
04 May 2017, by
Ben Vagle
The cheap arm project: An affordable, open-source robotics project
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...
30 March 2017, by
Dominic Cassidy and Guido Bugmann
QuadBot: The 3D printed crab-bot scuttling beyond its Kickstarter goal
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 ...
09 December 2016, by
Josh Elijah
Care-O-bot 4 celebrates its premiere as a shopping assistant
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...
14 November 2016, by
Fraunhofer IPA
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221
podcast
Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea
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...
12 November 2016, by
Audrow Nash
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
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 ...
08 November 2016, by
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
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...
26 October 2016, by
Justin Kim
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218
podcast
RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
03 October 2016, by
Audrow Nash
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211
podcast
ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier
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...
25 June 2016, by
Audrow Nash
ShanghAI Lectures: Serge Kernbach “Collective and Modular Robotics: Fundamentials and Frontiers”
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...
27 February 2014, by
Nathan Labhart
Photos: Robots at IROS 2012
Some interesting robots at IROS 2012 ......
18 October 2012, by
Markus Waibel
Sandia Hand has interchangeable fingers
(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...
19 August 2012, by
John Payne
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098
podcast
Self-organizing systems, with Radhika Nagpal
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 ...
24 February 2012, by
Podcast team
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091
podcast
Connectors & modular robots, with Martin Nilsson
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...
18 November 2011, by
Per Sjöborg
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059
podcast
Programmable matter, with Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert
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...
27 August 2010, by
Podcast team
