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Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics
Rich Mahoney and Hallie Siegel
18 Jul 2013
As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...
Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz
17 Jul 2013
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...
China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation
CHEN Fei
17 Jul 2013
With the rapid economic development of the last twenty years resulting in the accumulation of great wealth, China urgently feels the need to move from a manufacturing-driven economy to an innovati...
World’s first all stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom
DigInfo TV
17 Jul 2013
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has developed the world's first all stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom.
It will be used in the drug discovery and pharmaceutical fields to automate experi...
Neurorobotics hopes to aid development of brain-like computing technology, new diagnosis/treatment methods for Alzheimers
Florian Röhrbein
16 Jul 2013
Neurorobotics is one of the most ambitious fields in robotics and will play a major role in the newly announced Human Brain Project. This project was selected by the European Commission as a flags...
Robotics and the disruptive transformation of agriculture
John Payne
15 Jul 2013
Over the last few years, there has been increasing talk about the potential of agriculture as a market for robotics. Speaking about future markets for unmanned aerial systems in a recent presentation ...
Remote internal imaging robot helps doctors in emergency situations
DigInfo TV
12 Jul 2013
This remote medical care robot for use in emergency situations, is under development by a research group at Waseda University, led by Dr. Hiroyasu Iwata.
"If a person receives an impact in an acciden...
Why fostering high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship matters to the economy, and what universities can do about it
Peter Seitz and Roland Siegwart
11 Jul 2013
For many people, the term “innovation” implies having a great idea, and hoping that somehow it will take off. According to H. Chesbrough, this is clearly insufficient, and in his definition, he is...
More space robots as Grishin funds NanoSatisfi
Andra Keay
11 Jul 2013
NanoSatisfi, a Silicon Valley based cubesat startup, today received $300,000 investment from Grishin Robotics bringing their total seed funding to $1,750,000, not including their initial successful Ki...
Astronaut on International Space Station successfully controls K10 rover on Earth, supporting use of telerobotics in future deep space missions
Terry Fong
02 Jul 2013
On June 17, 2013, Astronaut Chris Cassidy successfully drove a K10 rover on earth, via remote connection from the Surface Telerobotics Workbench on the International Space Station, showing that robo...
Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Handling feedback
Mike Hamer
01 Jul 2013
This is the third tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series.
In this tutorial we will:
Learn about the AR.Drone's state feedback (and how it is handled by ROS)
Learn a...
Space mining: Robots in the final frontier
Kris Zacny
01 Jul 2013
Over the past two decades, robotic planetary exploration has generated an incredible wealth of knowledge about our neighbors in the Solar System. We now realize that celestial bodies within our reach...
DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2013
The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...
Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials
Simone Schürle
26 Jun 2013
Unlike larger robots, microrobots for applications in the body are too small to carry batteries and motors. To address this challenge, we power and control robots made of magnetic materials using exte...
The OpenROV project, with Eric Stackpole and David Lang
Podcast team
14 Jun 2013
Link to audio file (34:33)In the episode, we speak with Eric Stackpole and David Lang from the OpenROV project about their challenge in developing Eric’s idea to find an easy way to explore a c...
The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight
Raymond Oung
12 Jun 2013
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" — a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array: a modular robot consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take ...
Quadrocopters learn from prior experience to improve slalom flying
Mike Hamer
11 Jun 2013
A new video released today by researchers from the Flying Machine Arena shows how a quadrocopter is able to learn from prior experience to improve future performance.
This new research is an extens...
Video of human controlling a quadrotor via non-invasive brain/computer interface
Robohub Editors
04 Jun 2013
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a non-invasive brain/computer interface that allows humans to remotely control a robot (in this case, a quadrotor) using only their thought...
Multi-viewpoint robotic camera system creates real ‘bullet time’ slow motion replays
DigInfo TV
04 Jun 2013
This multi-viewpoint robotic camera system, under development by NHK, links the motion of eight sub-cameras to that of an individual camera, so that all the cameras film the same moving object.
"Usin...
Feel the edges and contours of virtual objects with this haptic system from NHK
DigInfo TV
03 Jun 2013
With the aim of implementing a television service which allows viewers to touch virtual objects, NHK is developing a tactile system which applies stimuli to five points on one finger, making objects f...
Curved Artificial Compound Eye, with Ramon Pericet Camara and Michal Dobrzynski
Podcast team
31 May 2013
Link to audio file (22:01)In this episode, we speak with Ramon Pericet and Michal Dobrzynski from EPFL about their Curved Artificial Compound Eye (CurvACE) published in the Proceedings of the National...
CoCoRo Impressions 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo Target Detection 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo swarm size awareness 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo shoaling 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo Swarm Control 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
New additive manufacturing method builds up objects with real 3D curves instead of 2D layers
Hallie Siegel
21 May 2013
Mataerial is a new 3D printing method that uses extrusion technology and a two-component thermosetting polymer to build up objects on any working surface that the polymer can adhere to, including flo...
Plug-and-play artificial compound eye for robotic applications
Sabine Hauert
20 May 2013
Flies have small brains that would not be able to process high-resolution images such as those that we see with our own eyes. Instead, they've perfected the use of compound eyes, composed of a dense m...
Measure your pulse in real-time with Fujitsu’s facial imaging technology
DigInfo TV
16 May 2013
Fujitsu has developed technology which can measure a person's pulse in real time by analyzing video of their face.
"As blood circulates through the body, the amount of light absorbed by the face vari...
Robotic bartender assembles personalized drinks, monitors alcohol consumption, and takes social mixing to a whole new level
Hallie Siegel
16 May 2013
You're at a busy bar. You order your personalized cocktail through a smart phone app; a drink dispenser measures out the beverage according to your instructions and a Kuka robotic arm give it a shake ...
Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls
Sabine Hauert
15 May 2013
The Airburr, a light-weight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my PhD lab) at EPFL, was designed to fly in cluttered environments. Unlike most flying robot, which avoid contact a...
ROS Industrial celebrates one-year anniversary
Frank Tobe
13 May 2013
ROS-I is developing and promoting a manufacturer-independent open-source library of drivers and the transfer of established components from research to industry - not just h/w interfaces and MS, IOS a...
Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery
Robohub Editors
06 May 2013
Many surgeries today are performed as open, invasive procedures because surgeons lack the right tools. Our goal is to create the technology that will enable converting these open procedures to minima...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”
Nathan Labhart
06 May 2013
This concludes the ShanghAI Lecture series of 2012. After a wrap-up of the class, we announce the winners of the EmbedIT and NAO competitions and end with an outlook of the future of the ShanghAI Lect...
The Swinging Blind Juggler
Markus Waibel
03 May 2013
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...
Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller
Podcast team
03 May 2013
Link to audio file (25:02)In this episode we hear from researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab about the Science paper published today reporting on the first controlled flight of an insect-sized ...
