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    Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
    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...
    15 March 2017, by

    Split-second decisions: Navigating the fine line between man and machine
    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...
    13 March 2017, by

    UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
     UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing convenient tools for areal and linear surveys and enabling direct ...
    09 March 2017, by

    Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE: Semi-finalists set sail on a journey to illuminate the ocean
    We have just taken another momentous step in the journey to unveil the hidden wonders of our own planet! Since the launch of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE at the American Geophysical Union Fall ...
    22 February 2017, by

    Robotic Functions Validations: Interview with Jussi Aaltonen
    The UNEXMIN (Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines) project is almost one year old. After a busy first year of work, UNEXMIN is on-schedule to deliver the first mechanical UX-1 prototype. Jussi Aalton...
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    Toru Robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth

    In this episode, Ron Vanderkley spoke to Dr Moritz Tenorth, head of software development at Magazino, a Munich-based startup developing mobile pick-and-place robots for item-specific logistics. They d...
    21 January 2017, by



    Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using Husky UGV
    Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is developin...
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    Speech-Controlled Wheelchair, with Vladimir Stanovov

    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 ...
    23 December 2016, by
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    Actuation for Robotic Fingers, with Edward Neff

    In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Edward Neff, founder of SMAC Corporation. Mr. Neff discusses how breakthroughs in his company have allowed them to develop linear actuators compact enough to b...
    11 December 2016, by

    Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
    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...
    16 November 2016, by

    How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
    What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
    08 November 2016, by and

    No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
    A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi,...
    28 October 2016, by

    mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
    Developed by a team at the University of Toronto, mROBerTO (milli-ROBot TORonto) is designed for swarm-robotics researchers who might wish to test their collective-behavior algorithms with real physic...
    26 October 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€...
    25 June 2016, by

    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...
    22 February 2016, by

    Flying robots, with Dario Floreano (Part two)
    Last month we caught up with Dario Floreano, the head of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Here we continue our discussion,...
    15 January 2016, by and

    Flying robots, with Dario Floreano (Part 1)
    As head of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, Dario Floreano knows a thing or two about flying robots. In the first segmentÂ...
    22 December 2015, by and

    Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
    by Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Harbor seals have an amazingly fine-tuned sense for detecting prey, as marine biologists have noted for years. Even when blindfolded, trained seals are able to ch...
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    Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester

    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...
    20 March 2015, by
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    Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller

    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...
    20 February 2015, by

    Inroads in perception
    Google's recent acquisition of Emu Messenger is just one of many items in recent news about improvements in perception and artificial intelligence (AI)....
    22 August 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

    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

    Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal
    Photo credit: Image Agency Why do people who use Facebook spend so much of their online time there? Why do people want to share, to comment? Patrick Levy Rosenthal asked himself these answers and wa...
    14 January 2014, by and

    Apple buys Israel’s PrimeSense for $350 million
    Famous from being the synchronized depth perception system inside the Microsoft Kinnect, PrimeSense, a venture-funded company based in Tel Aviv, was just acquired by Apple for $350 million. Bloomb...
    29 November 2013, by

    UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014
    Did you know that the world’s population is set to increase from seven billion people to more than nine billion in the next 40 years? In order to meet this growing demand, agricultural producers wil...
    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

    Floating interactive display could be used in ATMs of the future
    The Aerial Imaging (AI) Plate, developed by Asukanet, is a next-generation display device which can form an image which appears to be floating in midair from light that passes through it. By combining...
    09 October 2013, by

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