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Alan Turing robot makes its debut at Startup Village 2015

Robohub Editors 10 Jul 2015

Tho startups from the robotics cluster at Skolkovo — Nanosemantics and Lexy — teamed up with the Russian Neurobotics, to recreate a robotic version of the British computer science pioneer A...

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Towards Automating Fieldwork, with Hans-Peter Grothaus

Per Sjöborg 10 Jul 2015

Transcript included. In this episode, Per Sjöborg talks to Hans-Peter Grothaus, from CLAAS, about automation in agriculture....

Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!

Philipp Oettershagen 09 Jul 2015

The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...

Building the Jibo prototype: Interview with VP Engineering Andy Atkins

Jibo 08 Jul 2015

Our most recent video update comes from our VP of Engineering Andy Atkins. Take a sneak peak inside the minds of our engineers as they finish our newest Jibo P2s, to find out what kinds of challenges ...

#ICRAcam (Part 5): Flying w/o sensors, learning to swim, manipulating from primitives, & injecting at high speed

Robohub Editors 08 Jul 2015

In Part Five of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about passively stabilizing MAVs without using inertial sensors, a robot that learns different swimming gaits from experience, building high level m...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #27/52: Jeff target find in a large pool

Thomas Schmickl 08 Jul 2015

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

Talking Machines: On ‘solving intelligence’, with DeepMind’s Nando de Freitas

Talking Machines 03 Jul 2015

In episode fourteen we talk with Nando de Freitas. He’s a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior staff research scientist Google DeepMind. Right now he’s focusing o...

#ICRAcam (Part 4): Robot-assisted microsurgery, clothing de-wrinkler, collaborative interaction, & 3D scene reconstruction

Robohub Editors 30 Jun 2015

In Part Four of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about control for a microsurgical device for soft tissue, a robot that can find wrinkles in clothing and straighten them out, collaborative task le...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #26/52: Magnetic target – four compartments

Thomas Schmickl 30 Jun 2015

Towards independence: A shared control BCI telepresence robot

NCCR Robotics 29 Jun 2015

For those with extreme mobility problems, such as paralysis following spinal cord injury or neurological disease, telepresence can greatly help to offset social isolation. However, controlling a mobil...

Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring, with Lei Cui

Ron Vanderkley 26 Jun 2015

Transcript included. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Lei Cui from Curtin University about his team’s work on 3D printable hand orthosis for rehabilitation, a task-oriented 4-...

Study shows public perception of robotics generally positive in EU, but declining

Adriana Hamacher and Hallie Siegel 25 Jun 2015

A major study into European attitudes toward automation has found that while almost two thirds of people polled feel generally positive about robots, public acceptance of them in the EU is in dec...

Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto

Robohub Editors 24 Jun 2015

FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...

#ICRAcam (Part 3): IKEA assembly-bots, RoboSherlock, MRI-powered millirobots and human-robot contact

Robohub Editors 23 Jun 2015

In Part Three of our ICRAcam series, you'll learn about what it takes to get a robot to build IKEA furniture, information processing for robot perception, an MRI-powered millibot that shoots like a G...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #25/52: Autonomous underwater camera agent

Thomas Schmickl 22 Jun 2015

Evolving robot swarm behaviour suggests forgetting may be important to cultural evolution

Alan Winfield 19 Jun 2015

Our latest paper from the Artificial Culture project has just been published: On the Evolution of Behaviors through Embodied Imitation....

The Year of CoCoRo Video #24/52: Jeff robots explore

Thomas Schmickl 19 Jun 2015

#ICRAcam (Part 2): Handheld cobots, magnetic manipulators, mini robotic probes, and the Butterfly problem revisited

Robohub Editors 18 Jun 2015

Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we've got some more highlights from some of this year’s exciting papers. We’ll be sharing lots more ICRAcam videos over the next ...

#ICRAcam (Part 1): Adhesion grippers, robot life cycles, car-towing bots, and motion planning

Robohub Editors 16 Jun 2015

There was so much great research presented at ICRA in Seattle this year that it was tough to find the time to see it all. Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we are able to...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #23/52: Lily aggregation experiments

Thomas Schmickl 15 Jun 2015

Gazebo gets better at flying and diving

Open Source Robotics Foundation 15 Jun 2015

As another result of the exciting DARPA Robotics Challenge, Gazebo has improved its capabilities in the aeronautics and hydrodynamics fields. We expect these changes to benefit the way UAVs and UUVs a...

What’s hot in robotics? Four trends to watch

Frank Tobe 11 Jun 2015

Four diverse trends are having a big effect on the robotics industry worldwide, and the global media and financial gurus are paying attention to the process....

The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory

Sally Applin and Michael Fischer 10 Jun 2015

Automating vehicles simplifies operation for humans but also increases complexity. In order to negotiate a safe journey within a crowded transportation system, cars must communicate messages not only...

Soft robotics for adaptive building facades

ETH Zurich 09 Jun 2015

By Arno Schlüter Today, building envelopes tend to be static and unable to adapt to changing conditions. Now, for the first time, an adaptable façade has been used for the newly inaugurated House o...

Robotic assistive devices for independent living

Kavita Krishnaswamy and Tim Oates 08 Jun 2015

Autonomy is the soul of independent daily living, and a variety of assistive devices already exist to help people with severe physical disabilities achieve this. But many of them are designed to be us...

‘Tailsitter’ flying robot hovers and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm

Robin Ritz 04 Jun 2015

In August 2014 Google [x] announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon's Prime Air. Called Project Wing, the system was based on a mechanically simple "t...

Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng

Talking Machines 04 Jun 2015

In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....

Amazon challenges robotics’ hot topic: Perception

Frank Tobe 02 Jun 2015

Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and pick...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #22/52: Aggregation magnets

Thomas Schmickl 01 Jun 2015

Team RBO from Berlin wins Amazon Picking Challenge convincingly

Andra Keay 29 May 2015

The Amazon Picking Challenge is over and two things stood out. One: how many different arm gripper solutions were possible; and two: just how difficult the challenge still is. The gap between the top...

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