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Are gestures the future of robotic control?
Anna Johansson
29 Apr 2017
A few decades ago, touchscreens were impressive, yet clunky pieces of technology reserved for applications that did little more than show off that touchscreens were possible. Today’s touchscreens ar...
Engineering highly adaptable robots requires new tools for new rules
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
13 Apr 2017
Northwestern University mechanical engineering professor Todd Murphey and his team are engineering robots that one might say could make robotic assistance as seamless as "humanly" possible. With suppo...
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bots_alive, with Bradley Knox
Audrow Nash
18 Mar 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bradley Knox, founder of bots_alive. Knox speaks about an add-on to a Hexbug, a six-legged robotic toy, that makes the bot behave more like a character. They di...
Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
Horizon Magazine
15 Mar 2017
If you take humans out of the driving seat, could traffic jams, accidents and high fuel bills become a thing of the past? As cars become more automated and connected, attention is turning to how to be...
Developing ROS programs for the Sphero robot
Ricardo Téllez
13 Mar 2017
You probably know the Sphero robot. It is a small robot with the shape of a ball. In case that you have one, you must know that it is possible to control it using ROS, by installing in your computer t...
Split-second decisions: Navigating the fine line between man and machine
Horizon Magazine
13 Mar 2017
Today’s self-driving car isn’t exactly autonomous – the driver has to be able to take over in a pinch, and therein lies the roadblock researchers are trying to overcome. Automated cars are hurtl...
Programming for robotics: Introduction to ROS
Péter Fankhauser
07 Mar 2017
This handy video-tutorial course gives an introduction to the Robot Operating System (ROS), including many of the available tools that are commonly used in robotics. With the help of different example...
Mind control: Correcting robot mistakes using EEG brain signals
CSAIL MIT
06 Mar 2017
For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human language, for example, or giving them explicit comm...
Putting data in the hands of doctors
MIT News
17 Feb 2017
Computer scientist Regina Barzilay is working with MIT students and medical doctors in an ambitious bid to revolutionize cancer care. She is relying on a tool largely unrecognized in the oncology wor...
Python programming your NAO robot
Philip English
09 Feb 2017
These videos aim to teach you how to begin programming your NAO with Python. The NAO can be programmed using several programming languages, including C++, MATLAB, JAVA, LabVIEW and Python. Instead of...
Technical challenges in machine ethics
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
08 Feb 2017
Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to mitigate risks in human-robot interactions, robots will have to comply with humanity’s e...
Why artificial intelligence could be key to future-proofing the grid
Valentin Robu
03 Feb 2017
A recent Conversation piece pointed out that the British electricity mix in 2016 was the cleanest in 60 years, with record capacity from renewable energy, mainly from wind and solar power. But one pro...
Building character AI through machine learning
Brad Knox
01 Feb 2017
Modern character AI could be better.
I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...
The infrastructure of life part 1: Safety
Alan Winfield
26 Jan 2017
Part 1: Autonomous Systems and Safety
We all rely on machines. All aspects of modern life, from transport to energy, work to welfare, play to politics depend on a complex infrastructure of physical...
Robotics, maths, python: A fledgling computer scientist’s guide to inverse kinematics
Alistair Wick
13 Jan 2017
So – you’ve built a robot arm. Now you’ve got to figure out how to control the thing. This was the situation I found myself in a few months ago, during my Masters project, and it’s a problem c...
Celebrating 9 Years of ROS
Open Source Robotics Foundation
28 Dec 2016
This year marks the occasion of ROS turning 9 years old! Over the years, ROS has grown into a strong world-wide community. It’s a community with a large variety of interests: from academic research...
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Speech-Controlled Wheelchair, with Vladimir Stanovov
Christina Brester
23 Dec 2016
In this episode, Christina Brester interviews Vladimir Stanovov, PhD student and researcher at the Siberian State Aerospace University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). Stanovov speaks about a speech-controlled ...
Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
Filippo Arrichiello
16 Nov 2016
Research and development of robotic assistive technologies has gained tremendous momentum in the last decade due to several factors such as the maturity level reached by several technologies, the adva...
Automation should complement professional expertise, not replace it
Frank Pasquale
19 Oct 2016
Will your next doctor be an app? A cost-cutting NHS wants more patients to act as “self-carers,” with some technologized assistance. A series of flowcharts and phone trees might tell parents whose...
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RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2016
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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Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr
Audrow Nash
20 Aug 2016
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...
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213
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Physics-Based Optimization for Robot Control, with Emo Todorov
Audrow Nash
23 Jul 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Emo Todorov, Director of Movement Control Laboratory at the University of Washington, about a physics-based optimization method for controlling robots. Todorov ...
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Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma
Audrow Nash
09 Jul 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...
Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
Robohub Editors
22 Feb 2016
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...
Towards building brain-like cognition and control for robots
Florian Röhrbein and Florian Walter
27 Jan 2016
The idea of connecting brain-inspired models of computation to robots is probably as old as the discipline of robotics itself; as far back as 1950, neurophysiologist William Grey Walter had already co...
Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to make hairpin turns in a simulated “forest”
CSAIL MIT
19 Jan 2016
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL
Getting drones to fly around without hitting things is no small task. Obstacle-detection and motion-planning are two of computer science’s trickiest challenges, because...
This flying machine uses ducted fans for propulsion and control
Michael Muehlebach
05 Jan 2016
The Flying Platform is a new flying machine developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich. Its purpose is to study the use of electric ducted fans as control and propulsion ...
Push, pull, nudge: The control challenge of non-prehensile robotic manipulation
Brian Douglas
29 Sep 2015
In this new lecture series, controls expert Brian Douglas walks you through key concepts in control system theory. Focused on making control theory accessible and intuitive, this series is for anyo...
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Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin
Audrow Nash
04 Sep 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics' tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. Th...
‘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...
Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers
Robohub Editors
05 May 2015
This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadro...
Japan looks to distributed, cooperative control to help manage energy market deregulation
DigInfo TV
21 Apr 2015
Japan's power industry is currently centralized, but it aims to deregulate by around 2020. Coupled with this major structural market change, the expansion of thermal, nuclear and renewable power gener...
Bipedal robot uses high-speed vision to run
Masatoshi Ishikawa
15 Oct 2014
We have developed a visually controlled bipedal running robot named ACHIRES: Actively Coordinated High-speed Image-processing Running Experiment System. [tweetquote]This robot has a leg length of 14cm...
Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
Dan Novischi
08 Oct 2014
Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR) is a small and powerful mobile robot platform that is designed to be used in a heterogeneous robotic swarm that is currently under development at the Laboratory of Artific...
Artificial General Intelligence that plays Atari video games: How did DeepMind do it?
Last December, an article named “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning” was uploaded to arXiv by employees of a small AI company called DeepMind. Two months later [tweetquote]Google bough...
New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
Markus Waibel
22 Sep 2014
We've seen robots on stage before: Humanoids have been featured in theater productions in Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, and industrial robots have played parts in dance performances and other stage...
