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Recap from International Robotics Week
RoboValley
26 Apr 2017
It was the event we have worked towards since the founding of RoboValley: the International Robotics Week. Last week, we were able to show the whole world what RoboValley has built in the past years a...
DroneClash: Delft University of Technology organising first anti-drone race
RoboValley
29 Mar 2017
To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 4 December the TU Delft Micro Air Vehicle Lab (MAVLab) will host the first ever anti-drone competition: D...
Schiaparelli, are you there? The high risks of space robotics again crash home
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Oct 2016
In Darmstadt, Germany, European Space Agency (ESA) teams are scrambling to confirm contact with the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), Schiaparelli—the spectre of Philae still hau...
Drone learns to see in zero-gravity
Guido de Croon
03 Oct 2016
During an experiment performed on board of the International Space Station (ISS) a small drone successfully learned by itself to see distances using only one eye, reported scientists at the 67th Inter...
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Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon
Abate De Mey
01 May 2016
Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
AI, deep learning and 3D printing produce ‘The Next Rembrandt’
Frank Tobe
08 Apr 2016
From the Smithsonian comes news - and a must-see fascinating video - about a painting created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt's work, trained to paint in Rembrandt's signature...
Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2016
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Machines have been beating humans for years in games and contests: chess, Scrabble, checkers, Jeopardy! and more recently, the Chinese board game Go. Google's AI machi...
Talking Machines: Machine learning in healthcare and the AlphaGo matches
Talking Machines
14 Mar 2016
In episode five of season two, Ryan walks us through variational inference. We put some listener questions about Go and how to play it to Andy Okun, president of the American Go Association (who is in...
To err is human: raising the bar on AI
Michael Szollosy
01 Feb 2016
Last week, media outlets reported about the latest 'sure sign' of an imminent robopocalypse. Google-backed DeepMind created an AI sophisticated enough to beat a human champion in the Chinese ...
How friendly is your AI? It depends on the rewards
Two years after the small London-based startup DeepMind published their pioneering work on “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning”, they have become one of the leaders in the chase for Ar...
New insect-inspired vision strategy could hasten development of mini-drones
Guido de Croon
07 Jan 2016
New research published today in the Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics by the Micro Air Vehicle laboratory of TU Delft shows that an insect-inspired vision strategy can help indoor flying drone...
Talking Machines: On ‘solving intelligence’, with DeepMind’s Nando de Freitas
Talking Machines
03 Jul 2015
In episode fourteen we talk with Nando de Freitas. He’s a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior staff research scientist Google DeepMind. Right now he’s focusing o...
Philae: A proof of concept for cometary landing
Alan Winfield
01 Dec 2014
We asked Alan Winfield what the first successful landing on a comet means for the future of space mining. Find out his answer below.
The successful landing of Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasim...
Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae makes first ever landing on a comet
Ioannis K. Erripis
12 Nov 2014
UPDATE: ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03...
Google adds to DeepMind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U
Frank Tobe
27 Oct 2014
In January, 2014, Google acquired London-based DeepMind Technologies for $643 million. Now it is adding to that purchase with two more companies, ten new hires and a substantial contribution to Oxford...
ESA confirms primary landing site for Rosetta | ESA News
Robohub Editors
15 Oct 2014
ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November, in the first-ever attempt at a soft touchdown o...
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...
Big deals: What it means to have the giants investing in robotics
Hallie Siegel
12 Feb 2014
If the world outside the robotics community didn't know about Boston Dynamics, Kiva and Nest, they do now. Recent robotics acquisitions and investments by major-league players like Google, Apple a...
AJung Moon on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”
AJung Moon
12 Feb 2014
We have reasons to feel both excited and uneasy about giant corporations’ investment in robotics.
It’s exciting for the robotics community that the giants (Google, Apple, and Amazon) are active...
Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper
Guido de Croon
16 Dec 2013
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...
Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft
Guido de Croon
26 Mar 2013
Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.Drone and a scientific crowd-sourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous spac...
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...
