• team
  • about
  • contribute
  • republish
    • ☰
  • News
  • Views
  • Podcast
  • Learn

    • Robohub.org

    Algorithm Controls


    Towards building brain-like cognition and control for robots
    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...
    27 January 2016, by and

    Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to make hairpin turns in a simulated “forest”
    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...
    19 January 2016, by

    This flying machine uses ducted fans for propulsion and control
    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 ...
    05 January 2016, by

    Push, pull, nudge: The control challenge of non-prehensile robotic manipulation
    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...
    29 September 2015, by
    ep.

    190

    podcast

    Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin

    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...
    04 September 2015, by

    ‘Tailsitter’ flying robot hovers and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm
    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...
    04 June 2015, by



    Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers 
    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...
    05 May 2015, by

    Japan looks to distributed, cooperative control to help manage energy market deregulation
    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...
    21 April 2015, by

    Bipedal robot uses high-speed vision to run
    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...
    15 October 2014, by

    Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
    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...
    08 October 2014, by

    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...
    25 September 2014, by , , and

    New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
    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...
    22 September 2014, by

    On internal models, consequence engines and Popperian creatures
    So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain. For a couple of years I've been thinking about robots with internal models. Not internal models in the classical...
    08 September 2014, by

    New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions | MIT News
    In the near future, the package that you ordered online may be deposited at your doorstep by a drone: Last December, online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery, suggesting ...
    28 August 2014, by

    When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target | MIT News
    Levine and How developed an algorithm that can efficiently calculate just how much information any node in the graph gives you about any other — what in information theory is called “mutual inform...
    01 August 2014, by

    When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?
    A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won’t attempt to cover them all in one poll. But on...
    22 July 2014, by

    Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision
    Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...
    21 July 2014, by

    Fast robot arm catches flying objects | Automaton
    At the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at EPFL, they're leveraging fast vision, fast computers, fast controllers, fast motors, programming by demonstration, and object modeling to be able ...
    15 May 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Rafael Núñez “Where mathematics comes from’”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 In this guest lecture, Rafael Núñez from the University of California, San Diego, USA, talks about Mathematics as a paradox for embodiment and cog...
    03 April 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Nikolaos Mavridis “Robots, language, and social networks”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16 The lecture starts with a short introduction to the Interactive Robots and Media Lab and the United Arab Emirates. Then, it continues by exploring so...
    27 March 2014, by

    Chess, Jeopardy and now… Ping Pong? Kuka robot goes up against table tennis champion Timo Boll
    Timo Boll & Agilus robot Photo credit: KUKA [UPDATE] - KUKA just published the well-advertised video of the table tennis match of top athlete Timo Boll and one of its fastest robots, the KUKA KR ...
    11 March 2014, by and

    Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss
    UPDATE 04/03/2014: In this video update, we show that a quadrocopter can be safely piloted by hand after a motor fails, without the aid of a motion capture system. This follows our previous video, ...
    04 March 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

    Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper
    The DelFly Explorer, a flapping wing MAV equipped with a 4-gram stereo vision system that can fly completely by itself in unknown, cluttered environments. © Delft University of Technology. The DelFl...
    16 December 2013, by

    Three new quadrotor videos demonstrate agile control and the power of machine learning
    Quadrocopters assembling tensile structures in the ETH Flying Machine Arena. Photo credit: Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication and the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH...
    18 November 2013, by

    VIDEO Flying robots perform amazing acrobatics | CNN
    Professor Raffaello d'Andrea has created a series of complex algorithms allowing airborne robots to perform acrobatics.   Watch the video on CNN...
    12 November 2013, by

    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

    Researchers use single joystick to control swarm of RC robots
    What can you do with 12 RC robots all slaved to the same joystick remote control?  Common sense might say you need 11 more remotes, but our video demonstrates you can steer all the robots to any desi...
    09 September 2013, by

    Construction with Amorphous Materials, with Nils Napp

    Link to audio file (25:03) In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews Nils Napp from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Napp tells us about his...
    06 September 2013, by

    Timelapse: Building an arena for flying robots | TED Blog
    Our photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot time-lapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away for hours and days. In his latest piece, he tracks the c...
    12 June 2013, by

    ← previous page   
        next page →



    ↑
  • News
  • Views
  • Podcast
  • Learn
  • team
  • about
  • contribute
  • republish
  • RSS
  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • Youtube

    • Robohub is supported by:




    Would you like to learn how to tell impactful stories about your robot or AI system?


    scicomm
    training the next generation of science communicators in robotics & AI


    ©2024 - Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence


     










    ©2021 - ROBOTS Association