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The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision

Thomas Schmickl 22 Dec 2015

Our penultimate video features the initial "Big Vision" trailer we produced at the beginning of this project. The video showcases the basic components of the robotic system we targeted (surface st...

NSF and partners award $37M to advance nation’s co-robots

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 18 Dec 2015

Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) -- in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...

Autonomous mobile additive manufacturing robot runs circles around traditional 3D printers

Harvard SEAS 18 Dec 2015

By Adam Zewe | SEAS 3D printing is revolutionizing the way objects are created, from plastic toys to ceramic dental crowns. But the seemingly boundless possibilities of 3D printing technology have ...

New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration

XPRIZE 17 Dec 2015

At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...

From pencil and paper to hands-on making, a brief history of MIT’s legendary MechE 2.007

MIT News 16 Dec 2015

Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering It's hard to ignore the fact that a worldwide maker movement is well underway. Over the past 10 or so years, community Maker Faires have beco...

Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge

Rethink Robotics 16 Dec 2015

As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer o...

Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the Venice Lagoon (CoCoRo Video #50/52)

Thomas Schmickl 15 Dec 2015

Our underwater swarm research started in a few cubic centimeters of water with some naked electronics on a table. Over the next three and a half years, our swarm increased by a factor of 40, and ...

$150M in VC funding (2015) for businesses that use ROS

Brian Gerkey and Open Source Robotics Foundation 08 Dec 2015

Eight years ago, Morgan Quigley, Eric Berger and Andrew Ng published a paper that was not about ROS. It was about STAIR, the STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, which used a library called Switchy...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #49/52: Base stations

Thomas Schmickl 08 Dec 2015

During the past year we have shown many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlight was always on the Lily and the Jeff robots. However, there is now another star in the team and this tr...

Simple robots, complex behaviors: A control systems perspective on Braitenberg Vehicles

Brian Douglas 03 Dec 2015

In this lecture series, controls expert Brian Douglas walks you through key concepts in control system theory. Focused on making control theory accessible and intuitive, this series is for anyone who ...

Father of robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at age 90

Silicon Valley Robotics 01 Dec 2015

Robotics Industry Association | Joseph F. Engelberger, an engineer and entrepreneur who pioneered the robotics field, died peacefully at his home this morning, December 1, 2015, in Newtown, Connecticu...

Bioinspired robotics #3: Wearables, with Conor Walsh

Wyss Institute 01 Dec 2015

In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...

ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10

Frank E. Schneider 01 Dec 2015

Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...

Body-enhancing exoskeletons could be stepping into industrial trials next year

Horizon Magazine 01 Dec 2015

by Jon Cartwright Wearable technology uses electric motors and springs to augment the strength and balance of the human body. It has long been the subject of military research, but now engineers be...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops

Thomas Schmickl 01 Dec 2015

Most of the videos from The Year of CoCoRo were shot during workshops we held throughout the project. These workshops, which were usually focussed on one or several specific demonstrators, were wha...

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Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams

Ron Vanderkley 30 Nov 2015

Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

Adriana Hamacher 27 Nov 2015

[clear] Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in academia and the vibrant robotics startup ecosystem is no easy task. This Wednesday in the UK city of Bristol, a free public event titled ...

Talking Machines: Probabilistic programming, with Ben Vigoda

Talking Machines 26 Nov 2015

In episode twenty four we talk with Ben Vigoda about his work in probabilistic programming (everything from his thesis, to his new company)....

On the ethics of research in robotics, with Raja Chatila

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 25 Nov 2015

In this video lecture, IEEE Fellow Raja Chatila shares his views on [tweetquote]why roboticists are duty-bound to educate the wider public on the state of advanced robotics[/tweetquote], and also t...

How to calculate a robot’s forward kinematics in 5 easy steps

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 25 Nov 2015

Calculating the forward kinematics is often a vital first step to using a new robot in research. While there are some good tutorials available online, up until now there hasn't been a simple step-by-s...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show

Thomas Schmickl 24 Nov 2015

In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT -- Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be overshad...

European Robotics Week #ERW2015: 600+ events focusing on robots & society

euRobotics AISBL 19 Nov 2015

Over 600 events across the region will look at how robots will impact the way European citizens work, live and learn, as part of the 2015 European Robotics Week (#ERW2015), running 23-29 November....

Four classic movie robots that are no longer far fetched

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 18 Nov 2015

Cinemagoers have long been fascinated by fictional robots, but they're not usually realistic -- until now. Thanks to technological advancements, some of the classic movie robots are now a realistic p...

NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions

MIT News 18 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL NASA announced yesterday that MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling

Thomas Schmickl 17 Nov 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...

“Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours

MIT News 17 Nov 2015

[clear] Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes — from Earth’s changing climate ...

Echoes of the DRC at Humanoids 2015

Ricardo Téllez 13 Nov 2015

Last week, the Humanoids 2015 conference was held in Seoul, Korea. It's the first event to focus on humanoid robots since the Darpa Robotics Challenge (DRC) earlier this year and, in fact, the locati...

A new versatile gripper with electroadhesion

NCCR Robotics 11 Nov 2015

From early childhood, when a person picks up an object using their hands they use haptic feedback to automatically adjust the force of their grip according to the object they are lifting. A completely...

Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 10 Nov 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Andra Keay, directo...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #45/52: Swarm control

Thomas Schmickl 10 Nov 2015

Bioinspired robotics #2: Materials, manufacturing & design, with Robert Wood

Wyss Institute 09 Nov 2015

Emotionally literate tech to help treat autism

Horizon Magazine and Sophie Hebden 06 Nov 2015

Few could deny the power of computer games and avatars to entertain us and perhaps even educate us. But now researchers are turning to internet and robotic technologies to develop new ways of helping ...

Talking Machines: Digital humanities with David Mimno

Talking Machines 06 Nov 2015

In episode 23 we talk with David Mimno of Cornell University about his work in the digital humanities, and explore what machine learning can tell us about lady zombie ghosts and huge bodies of liter...

Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph: Video demo

CSAIL MIT 03 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously di...