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

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 ...

29 September 2014, by Patrick Goebel

ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”

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 ...

25 April 2013, by Nathan Labhart

Parrot invests in SenseFly and Pix4D

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...

01 August 2012, by John Payne

Local visual homing

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...

24 August 2010, by Sabine Hauert

Vision-based navigation with motion blur

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...

20 July 2010, by Sabine Hauert