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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 ...

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 ...

Parrot invests in SenseFly and Pix4D

John Payne 01 Aug 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVxOleKf8s Last week, SenseFly and Pix4D announced deals with drone maker Parrot, in which Parrot will invest in both companies, 5 million Swiss francs in SenseFly and...

Local visual homing

Sabine Hauert 24 Aug 2010

How can a robot, using vision, go back to a previously visited location? Möller et al. look at this research question, tagged “Local Visual Homing” in an intuitive manner inspired from so...

Vision-based navigation with motion blur

Sabine Hauert 20 Jul 2010

Robots often need to know where they are in the world to navigate efficiently. One of the cheapest ways to localize is to strap a camera on-board and extract visual features from the environment. Howe...