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mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
Justin Kim
26 Oct 2016
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...
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Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson
Audrow Nash
06 Aug 2016
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 ...
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211
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ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier
Audrow Nash
25 Jun 2016
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€...
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...
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,...
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...
Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
MIT News
22 Oct 2015
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
Audrow Nash
20 Mar 2015
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...
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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller
Audrow Nash
20 Feb 2015
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...
Inroads in perception
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2014
Google's recent acquisition of Emu Messenger is just one of many items in recent news about improvements in perception and artificial intelligence (AI)....
Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision
Open Roboethics Initiative
21 Jul 2014
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...
Fast robot arm catches flying objects | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
15 May 2014
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 ...
Chess, Jeopardy and now… Ping Pong? Kuka robot goes up against table tennis champion Timo Boll
Frank Tobe and Ioannis K. Erripis
11 Mar 2014
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 ...
Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
14 Jan 2014
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...
Apple buys Israel’s PrimeSense for $350 million
Frank Tobe
29 Nov 2013
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...
UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014
Ernest Earon
12 Nov 2013
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...
Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture
John Payne
25 Oct 2013
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...
Floating interactive display could be used in ATMs of the future
DigInfo TV
09 Oct 2013
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...
ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit
Frank Tobe
08 Oct 2013
... 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....
World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for ‘imperceptible electronics’
DigInfo TV
29 Jul 2013
Researchers from Asia and Europe have developed the world's lightest and thinnest organic circuits, which in the future could be used in a range of healthcare applications.
Lighter than a feather, ...
iRobot unveils new AVA 500 mobile robot for professionals
Frank Tobe
11 Jun 2013
New iRobot AVA 500, planned for 2014 delivery, navigates autonomously and can be sent from point A to B using an iPad....
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...
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 ...
Xconomy Forum’s final word about robots and jobs
Frank Tobe
12 Apr 2013
At the Xconomy Forum held in Palo Alto earlier this week, the focal topic was "Robots Remake the Workplace." It was expected that the jobs issue would permeate the event. Do robots take away jobs? Ins...
The Twitternet of things? | Digital Trends
Hallie Siegel
25 Mar 2013
Spambots are a vile scourge, but other bots on Twitter could turn out to be enormously helpful.
Read more on Digital Trends....
Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA
Ioannis K. Erripis
27 Feb 2013
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...
Flying insects and robots
Sabine Hauert
24 Feb 2013
TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
Flying robot performs 2D/3D mapping in the alps
Sabine Hauert
20 Feb 2013
Sensefly just released a fun video of their latest product, eBee, autonomously flying over an alpine landscape near the Matterhorn while performing 2D and 3D mapping....
ManyEars: open source framework for sound processing
Sabine Hauert
08 Feb 2013
One of the latest papers in the Journal Autonomous Robots presents ManyEars, an open framework for robot audition....
3’600-strong underwater robot sensor network returns 1’000’000th measurement, has scientists craving for more
Markus Waibel
05 Feb 2013
The Argo project, which has deployed a network of more than 3'600 robots covering all of the world's oceans, has returned it's 1'000'000th measurement....
Vision sensor capable of detecting moving spots 0.05mm in size across from distance of 2m
DigInfo TV
26 Nov 2012
Technos has introduced the Super5000K 7K Model neuro-visual sensor. This is the world's highest precision visual inspection system, and can detect spots 0.05mm in size at a distance of 2m, with a 1.4m...
Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong
Ioannis K. Erripis
06 Jun 2011
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...
