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Deep Learning Primer

Frank Tobe 02 Apr 2015

The technology that unlocks intelligence from big data - deep learning - is explained in this video by Max Welling, a professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a founder of the Dutch deep learnin...

Clearpath and Christie demo 3D video game with robots

Clearpath Robotics 31 Mar 2015

[clear] By Ryan Gariepy For our recent “hack week” we teamed up with one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world, Christie, to make a 3D video game with robots. H...

Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS

Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza 30 Mar 2015

When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #13/52: Lilycam in nature

Thomas Schmickl 29 Mar 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 �...

Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing

Stela Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King and Jim Young 27 Mar 2015

In the future, robots will be in our daily lives: homes, schools, offices, factories, even restaurants. The field of social robotics looks at how these robots can interact with people socially, just l...

Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani

Talking Machines 26 Mar 2015

In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...

Google scraps initial ‘Project Wing’ plans for new secret design

Ben Fisher 25 Mar 2015

The head of Google's moonshot lab Google X has recently announced they have scrapped the initial 'Project Wing' design that they have been testing in Australia. According to X lab Director Astro Te...

The Year of CoCoRo Video#12/52: Fun with Jeff in the pool

Thomas Schmickl 22 Mar 2015

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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester

Audrow Nash 20 Mar 2015

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs sp...

Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)

Talking Machines 17 Mar 2015

We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #11/52: Out of the lab in Livorno

Thomas Schmickl 15 Mar 2015

#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches Part I

Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors 13 Mar 2015

The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...

Jibo’s coordinated expression mechanisms: Behind the scenes

Jibo 11 Mar 2015

In this development video, hosted by Jesse Gray & Matt Berlin of Team Jibo and the MIT Media Lab, we’ll discuss how Jibo uses movement, sound, LEDs, and screen graphics to communicate with peopl...

Revolutionising building and construction sites

ETH Zurich 10 Mar 2015

By Felix Würsten and Corinne Hodel (Interview). Digital technologies have already turned many areas of the economy inside out. In this interview with Swiss NCCR Digital Fabrication researchers M...

Surgical micro-robot swarms: Science fiction, or realistic prospect?

Alan Winfield 09 Mar 2015

Imagine a swarm of microscopic robots that we inject into the vascular system: the swarm swims to the source of the problem, then either delivers therapeutics or undertakes microsurgery directly. T...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #10/52: Feeding Jeff with magnets

Thomas Schmickl 08 Mar 2015

EG Robotics: Building a robotics ecosystem in Egypt

Mahmoud AbdelAziz 03 Mar 2015

Expanding into emerging markets brings with it a specific set of challenges for designing products and services. Not only do cultural differences play a role in what, how, and why customers behave the...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #09/52: Jeff in the water current

Thomas Schmickl 01 Mar 2015

Talking Machines: History of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun

Talking Machines 26 Feb 2015

In episode five of Talking Machines, we hear the first part of our conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #08/52: Lily emergent taxis

Thomas Schmickl 22 Feb 2015

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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller

Audrow Nash 20 Feb 2015

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...

New Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in architecture and digital fabrication at ETHZ

NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB) 19 Feb 2015

In September a new Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ETH in Architecture and Digital Fabrication will be offered by the Gramazio Kohler Research chair at ETH Zurich. This one-year, full-time program f...

Sensory-motor tissues for soft robots

NCCR Robotics 18 Feb 2015

In this video, PhD student at LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics Jun Shintake explains his project "Sensory-Motor tissues for Soft Robots"....

Ground-flight collaboration

NCCR Robotics 16 Feb 2015

Working in the field of rescue robotics, the Robotics Perception Group (UZH and NCCR Robotics) works on how to get air robots communicating with ground robots, with the aim of exploiting the strength...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #07/52: Lily flocking by slimemold

Thomas Schmickl 15 Feb 2015

Call for euRathlon 2015 air/land/sea challenge now open

Marta Palau Franco 13 Feb 2015

euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition that invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima ...

Pleurobot: Multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot

NCCR Robotics 12 Feb 2015

The Pleurobot is a bioinspired robot being developed by the BioRob at EPFL and NCCR Robotics. Taking it's cues from the salamander, the Pleurobot is a walking robot that can change its gait to help it...

The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 12 Feb 2015

In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not just�...

Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach

Talking Machines 12 Feb 2015

In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...

DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch

Open Source Robotics Foundation 11 Feb 2015

The Gazebo team has been hard at work setting up a simulation environment for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. The g...

3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community

Ben Fisher 11 Feb 2015

3D Robotics, the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, has announced its latest version of the Flight Controller App 'Tower' to the open-source community. Tower acts as a powerful ground co...

Flyability wins $1M Drones for Good competition

NCCR Robotics 10 Feb 2015

Flyability, a spin off company from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics, has won the $1M inaugural UAE Drones for Good competition with Gimball, the world’s first crash resilient drone....

Introducing Spot, a new smaller 4-legged robot from Boston Dynamics

Ioannis K. Erripis 09 Feb 2015

[tweetquote]Boston Dynamics just released a video of a new four legged robot named “Spot”.[/tweetquote] It is an evolution along the lines of their previous four-legged robots like BigDog and Wild...

Robotics Perception Group celebrates 3 year anniversary

NCCR Robotics 09 Feb 2015

This week, Prof. Davide Scaramuzza's lab (RPG, UZH) turns three and, in typical robotics style, they've released a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi_YZlPva8&feature=youtu.be Congratu...