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TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias
Audrow Nash
18 Sep 2015
Transcript below
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
Documentary of a cyborg drummer
Robohub Editors
18 Sep 2015
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Beautiful short documentary by The Atlantic about amputee drummer Jason Barnes and Georgia Tech professor of music technology Gil Weinberg that explores "how robotics and artificial int...
Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on
Hallie Siegel
18 Sep 2015
[tweetquote]Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across.[/tweetquote] Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridg...
Interview with Danica Kragic
In this wide ranging interview, Danica Kragic, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and General Chair of ICRA 2016, discusses the nature of collaborative research, shares her...
#eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios
Marta Palau Franco
16 Sep 2015
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami and earthquake struck Fukushima Dai-ichi energy plant causing a major disaster. Since then emergency services have deployed robots to inspect the area and collect data. So...
Icelandic research institute unveils ethical robotics policy
Adriana Hamacher
16 Sep 2015
The Icelandic Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIIM) has become the first R&D centre in the world to adopt a policy that repudiates development of robotic technologies intended for military oper...
SMEs need robots that know their limitations and ask for help
Satyandra Gupta
15 Sep 2015
Socrates famously said that “the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Yet while we often equate human intelligence with the ability to recognize when help is needed and where to see...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #37/52: Combined scenario two
Thomas Schmickl
15 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...
Robots now have their own living space at Bristol Robotics Lab
Adriana Hamacher
11 Sep 2015
Bristol Robotics Laboratory, one of the world’s leading centres for robotics, has opened a “living lab,” a replica apartment to test assistive robots designed to help elderly people live more in...
Video: Qualcomm demos Snapdragon Flight for smaller, lighter camera drones
Hallie Siegel
10 Sep 2015
The Snapdragon Flight developer platform had its first public demo today at Qualcomm's Robotics Accelerator event, Techstars Demo Day. Designed specifically for the consumer drone market, Snapdragon F...
Morphological computation: The hidden superpower of soft-bodied robots
Helmut Hauser and Adriana Hamacher
10 Sep 2015
Soft robots are versatile, often much safer, more energy-efficient, robust and resilient than their more rigid counterparts. But one of the biggest challenges facing soft robotics is control - often, ...
Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment
Ioannis K. Erripis
04 Sep 2015
In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication
Thomas Schmickl
01 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 CoCoRo – w...
Evolved virtual creatures as content
Dan Lessin
28 Aug 2015
Do you like cat videos? Or maybe you prefer golden eagles hunting goats by throwing them off cliffs? Or perhaps you favor strange new life forms, recently discovered at the bottom of the Pacific? Wha...
Talking Machines: Active learning and machine learning in neuroscience, with Microsoft’s Sham Kakade
Talking Machines
27 Aug 2015
In episode eighteen we talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work that touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning....
Removing steps of common processes
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
27 Aug 2015
Being able to control the moment when concrete turns from liquid to solid is crucial for digitally fabricated concrete structures. The timing of this process can be controlled by tuning the chemistry ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #34/52: Relay chain basics
Thomas Schmickl
25 Aug 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...
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Robots and Communication, with Eleanor Sandry
Ron Vanderkley
21 Aug 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Eleanor Sandry of Curtin University about her new book Robots and Communication. In the interview, we explore human to anim...
When you need someone from Canada to calibrate your robot in New Zealand
Ilian Bonev
20 Aug 2015
Many researchers think that robot calibration is an issue that has been successfully resolved decades ago, but they are wrong. While the underlying theory is well established, its practical applicatio...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #33/52: Combined scenario number one – relay chain
Thomas Schmickl
18 Aug 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...
Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten
Talking Machines
14 Aug 2015
In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology....
The Year of CoCoRo Video #32/52: Combined scenario number one – target find
Thomas Schmickl
11 Aug 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 – we...
Buzz: A novel programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms
A new programming language designed specifically for robot swarms, Buzz is based on the idea that a developer must be allowed to pick the most comfortable approach to behavioral design - whether that...
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Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru
Audrow Nash
07 Aug 2015
Transcript below.
In this interview, Audrow Nash talks to two teams from Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at the 2015 International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA)....
Robotic research: Are we applying the scientific method?
Gianluca Antonelli and Frontiers in Robotics and AI
05 Aug 2015
Once upon a time validation of robotic research was relatively straightforward. Let us assume, for example, that a researcher had published in a journal a novel adaptive control law with a numerical ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #31/52: Combined scenario number one – base station arrival
Thomas Schmickl
04 Aug 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 – we...
Machine learning for sports & realtime predictions, w Microsoft Research’s Danny Tarlow
Talking Machines
31 Jul 2015
In episode sixteen we chat with Danny Tarlow of Microsoft Research Cambridge (in the UK not MA). Danny (along with Chris Maddison and Tom Minka) won best paper at NIPS 2014 for his paper A* Sampling. ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #30/52: Combined scenario number one
Thomas Schmickl
29 Jul 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 – we...
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Cheetah 2, with Sangbae Kim
Audrow Nash
24 Jul 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Sangbae Kim, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 201...
Repeatable robotics: Standards and benchmarks from frontier science to applied technology
Robohub Editors
23 Jul 2015
In a recent article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Gianluca Antonelli suggests that the Grand Challenge of robotics is to systematize the way its research is conducted. At Robohub we believe this is...
Towards standardized experiments in human robot interactions
Nicole Mirnig
23 Jul 2015
While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the res...
A new artificial compound eye
NCCR Robotics
23 Jul 2015
Taking cues from the natural world is growing ever more popular in robotics. This week, in a paper published by the Royal Society, a team from NCCR Robotics and LIS, EPFL present a revolutionary new ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #29/52: Jeff – preprogrammed trajectory
Thomas Schmickl
22 Jul 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 ...
Could a robot make a pizza? The RoDyMan project, with Bruno Siciliano
In this video lecture, Bruno Siciliano from PRISMA Lab at the University of Naples, Italy, takes us through a new project in robotic dynamic manipulation, called RoDyMan. Centered on the task of ...
Really really big data and machine learning in business, with Max Welling
Talking Machines
17 Jul 2015
In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #28/52: All magnet finding
Thomas Schmickl
14 Jul 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 ...
