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    RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
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    LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner

    In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen "Juxi" Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner spe...
    17 September 2016, by
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    ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation, with Ekaterina Bereziy

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ekaterina Bereziy, Founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, about exoskeletons for the disabled and for rehabilitation. Transcript below....
    02 September 2016, by
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    Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to the amputation of both of his legs below the knee and how th...
    20 August 2016, by
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    Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...
    06 August 2016, by
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    ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier

    This is the second of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Societyâ€...
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    Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
    Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
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    Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru

    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)....
    07 August 2015, by

    Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring, with Lei Cui

    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-...
    26 June 2015, by
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    CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener

    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...
    12 June 2015, by

    Firmer footing for robots with smart walking sticks
    Anyone who has ever watched a humanoid robot move around in the real world — an "unstructured environment," in research parlance — knows how hard it is for a machine to plan complex movements, bal...
    26 November 2014, by

    Grasping unknown objects
    This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. To manipulate objects, robots are often required to estimate their position and orie...
    06 May 2014, by

    Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells
    Photo by Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology A paper in Nature Communications earlier this year reports on "bio-bots". These tiny machines inspired by sperm, are ...
    10 March 2014, by and

    New-tech grippers hit the market
    Empire Robotics, a Boston-based start-up, is beginning to sell their VERSABALL kits, a new-tech jamming gripper enabling adaptive gripping operations with a single inexpensive tool. Filled with a g...
    13 January 2014, by

    Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
    2022 update: A new, one-wheeled version of the Cubli has been developed. The one-wheel Cubli is a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel, as it i...
    20 December 2013, by and

    Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture
    No, this is not about shapeshifting robots, come to save or destroy Earth. It is about transforming the contexts within which robotic technologies are applied, and about practicing robotics with the i...
    25 October 2013, by

    ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit
    ... Grabit, a 2012 SRI International spin-off, secures $3 million in Series A funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Nike and Formation 8, a tech VC in Silicon Valley....
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    RoCKIn Robot Challenge looks at task scenarios to help shape future competitions
    RoCKIn is a three-year EU project that aims to use robot competitions in order to innovate smarter, more dependable robots, and to increase public awareness of robotics.  Part of its focus is to look...
    07 September 2013, by

    DARPA unveils new humanoid robot
      DARPA unveiled their new humanoid robot Atlas that will be used as part of their robotics challenge. It can tackle rough terrain and carry human tools.   See on DARPA website....
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    Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery
    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...
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    The Swinging Blind Juggler
    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...
    03 May 2013, by

    First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot
    Researchers from the Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard have developed a millimeter-scaled insect robot that can autonomously control its flight. Their findin...
    02 May 2013, by

    Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA
    ESA is organizing the first robotic competition on a mock-up of the International Space Station (ISS). The competition is open for young people from ESA member states who can compete in three age grou...
    27 February 2013, by

    Flying insects and robots
    TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
    24 February 2013, by

    Bioinspired robot STAR
    Researchers at the Biomimetic Millisystem Lab at UC Berkeley have developed a six legged, 12 cm long, bioinspired robot named STAR (Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot)....
    21 February 2013, by

    Cell origami
    A couple years back, a team from Harvard and MIT developed a sheet of "programmable matter" that could fold into 3D structures....
    19 February 2013, by

    Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...
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