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Four-legged robot that efficiently handles challenging terrain
ETH Zurich
30 Oct 2015
StarlETH is a multi-purpose legged transporter robot developed at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. Combining versatility, speed, robustness, and efficiency, StarlETH walks, climbs, and runs over...
Four influential technologies with roots in robotics
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
29 Oct 2015
Robotics research has such strong links with several other research fields that, without it, the modern world might not have some of its most promising consumer technologies....
Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal
Wyss Institute
28 Oct 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...
Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard
In this short video lecture, Ayanna M. Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Georgia Institute of Technology...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching
Thomas Schmickl
27 Oct 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...
Crowdsourcing in machine learning, with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research
Talking Machines
26 Oct 2015
In episode twenty two we talk with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England about his work using crowdsourcing in Machine Learning, we take a look at the workshops being presented at NIPS this ye...
RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea
Wyss Institute
24 Oct 2015
By Leah Burrows | SEAS Communications
Engineers have been trying to design functional aerial-aquatic vehicles for decades with little success. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirem...
Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
MIT News
22 Oct 2015
by Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
Harbor seals have an amazingly fine-tuned sense for detecting prey, as marine biologists have noted for years. Even when blindfolded, trained seals are able to ch...
Stanford’s self-driving Delorean goes drifting for Back to the Future Day
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
21 Oct 2015
Last night, I attended Stanford’s unveiling of their newest research vehicle for self-driving. An old Delorean has been heavily modified in order to perform drifting experiments - where you let the ...
Liatris: looking to change how robots see the world
Mark Silliman
20 Oct 2015
Fully autonomous robotics could be developed today if objects could tell a robot what they are, their purpose and how to utilize them. Liatris is a new open source project built with ROS. Its objectiv...
The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud
Ricardo Téllez
20 Oct 2015
The Construct is a Barcelona based startup created to simplify the simulation of robots. The goal is to allow anybody to simulate complex robots and environments with minimal knowledge, without having...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #42/52: Murky waters
Thomas Schmickl
20 Oct 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 CooRo – we...
Final days to register for $1m UAE competition
Adriana Hamacher
19 Oct 2015
The first UAE Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Awards for Good aim to encourage research and development to meet challenges in the health, education and social services sectors. But less than two w...
Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
Thomas Schmickl
15 Oct 2015
Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe...
Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
14 Oct 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, Tully Foote -- ROS...
Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini
Jibo
14 Oct 2015
Finding the right approach to automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a critical step in Jibo’s design: get it right and the experience will be great; get it wrong, and it could really take awa...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #41/52: Metacognition
Thomas Schmickl
13 Oct 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 CooRo – we...
In-situ Fabricator: An autonomous construction robot
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
09 Oct 2015
Digital fabrication enables the seamless combination of digital design with physical construction processes. To fully exploit this emerging technology within architecture, robotic fabrication must be ...
Talking Machines: Treating cancer clusters, with Quaid Morris
Talking Machines
09 Oct 2015
In episode twenty one  we talk with Quaid Morris of the University of Toronto, who is using machine learning to find a better way to treat cancers. ...
Courtship of the drone fireflies: A short movie with flying robots and lights
Adrien Briod
08 Oct 2015
Drones, lights and nature combine in Drone Courtship, a short movie about a magical encounter between two flying robots set in a forest of centennial trees. A collaboration between Atelier D. Schlae...
Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread
Marianne Lucien and ETH Zurich
07 Oct 2015
Inspired to take 3D printing technology to new heights, ETH Zurich and MIT researchers create "Rock Print" -- a full-scale architectural installation on display at the Chicago Architecture Biennial u...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #40/52: Adaptive layers water column
Thomas Schmickl
06 Oct 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 CooRo – we...
Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
Autonomous Systems Lab and Péter Fankhauser
05 Oct 2015
This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...
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Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson
Audrow Nash
02 Oct 2015
Transcript below.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Brad Nelson, Professor at ETH Zurich, about his research regarding micro and nano robotics. They discuss many of Nelson’s projects: ret...
Soft robotic gripper can pick up and identify wide array of objects
CSAIL MIT
02 Oct 2015
By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL
Robots have many strong suits, but delicacy traditionally hasn’t been one of them. Rigid limbs and digits make it difficult for them to grasp, hold, and manipulat...
Teaching a brain-controlled robotic prosthetic to learn from its mistakes
NCCR Robotics
01 Oct 2015
Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) -- where brain waves captured by electrodes on the skin are used to control external devices such as a robotic prosthetic -- are a promising tool for helping people w...
Gazebo rendering abstraction
Open Source Robotics Foundation
30 Sep 2015
During his internship with OSRF, Mike Kasper developed a new ignition-robotics rendering library. The key feature of this library is that it provides an abstract render-engine interface for building ...
Push, pull, nudge: The control challenge of non-prehensile robotic manipulation
Brian Douglas
29 Sep 2015
In this new 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 anyo...
euRathlon 2015 announces Grand Challenge winners
Marta Palau Franco
29 Sep 2015
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the euRathlon competition is the first outdoor competition where teams of land, sea and air robots must cooperate in a realistic disaster-response scenario. F...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #39/52: Adaptive layers in a pool
Thomas Schmickl
29 Sep 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 CooRo – we...
Live tweets and pictures from #IROS2015
Sabine Hauert
29 Sep 2015
The 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany....
Talking Machines: The Master Algorithm, with UW’s Pedro Domingos
Talking Machines
25 Sep 2015
In episode 20 we chat with Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington, who has just published a book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World....
Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
24 Sep 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 first episode, Per speaks ...
Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo
Open Source Robotics Foundation
23 Sep 2015
The Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA recently flew fifty small autonomous planes together using ROS....
The Year of CoCoRo Video #38/52: BEECLUST
Thomas Schmickl
22 Sep 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 CooRo – weâ€...
Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
21 Sep 2015
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...
