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Building better trust between humans and machines

  23 Jun 2016
MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks....

Ingestible origami robot

  13 May 2016
By: Larry Hardesty In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated...

Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots

  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...
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TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias

  18 Sep 2015
Transcript below In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
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Robots and Communication, with Eleanor Sandry

  21 Aug 2015
Transcript included. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Eleanor Sandry of Curtin University about her new book Robots and Communication. In the interview, we explore human to anim...
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Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru

  07 Aug 2015
Transcript below. In this interview, Audrow Nash talks to two teams from Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at the 2015 International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA)....

Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring, with Lei Cui

  26 Jun 2015
Transcript included. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Lei Cui from Curtin University about his team’s work on 3D printable hand orthosis for rehabilitation, a  task-oriented 4-...
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RoboBusiness Exhibition, with RoboBusiness 2014

  29 May 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to several robotics companies at the company showcase at RoboBusiness 2014, which took place in Boston, Massachusetts....

Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research: Deadline June 5

  28 May 2015
Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research grants for projects in 2016. Researchers at non-profit institutions world wide can apply. LOIs can be submitted until June 5....
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bStem, with Todd Hylton

  01 May 2015
[clear] In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Todd Hylton, Senior Vice President at Brain Corporation, about neuromorphic computers. They discuss the robotics development board bStem, which appro...
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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester

  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...

Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes

  14 Aug 2014
There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robo...

How do self-driving cars work?

  03 Jun 2014
Nissan’s autonomous car prototype - 2013, photo:Nissan Global Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently announced that the car manufacturer will produce self-driving cars within three years. Nissan has announ...

Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car

  28 May 2014
Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car, which is designed from scratch for its role and is not a modifie...

What should a robot do? Designing robots that know right from wrong

and   29 Apr 2014
A large robot comes out of an office mailroom carrying a package marked “Urgent” to deliver to the boss upstairs. After navigating down the hall at maximum speed, it discovers someone is already w...

NAO Next Gen now available for a wider audience

  13 Mar 2014
As of yesterday, you can get the adorable and versatile humanoid robot NAO from Aldebaran Robotics for yourself, even if you are not an academic or a hardcore developer. According to Génération R...

Mapping in the Cloud

and   23 Dec 2013
UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...

Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk

and   20 Dec 2013
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...

Three new quadrotor videos demonstrate agile control and the power of machine learning

  18 Nov 2013
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...

Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture

  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...

Research Days: Multi-UAV systems

and   17 Jul 2013
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...

Neurorobotics hopes to aid development of brain-like computing technology, new diagnosis/treatment methods for Alzheimers

  16 Jul 2013
  Neurorobotics is one of the most ambitious fields in robotics and will play a major role in the newly announced Human Brain Project. This project was selected by the European Commission as a flags...

Robotics and the disruptive transformation of agriculture

  15 Jul 2013
Over the last few years, there has been increasing talk about the potential of agriculture as a market for robotics. Speaking about future markets for unmanned aerial systems in a recent presentation ...

Remote internal imaging robot helps doctors in emergency situations

  12 Jul 2013
This remote medical care robot for use in emergency situations, is under development by a research group at Waseda University, led by Dr. Hiroyasu Iwata. "If a person receives an impact in an acciden...

Astronaut on International Space Station successfully controls K10 rover on Earth, supporting use of telerobotics in future deep space missions

  02 Jul 2013
On June 17, 2013, Astronaut Chris Cassidy successfully drove a K10 rover on earth, via remote connection from the Surface Telerobotics Workbench on the International Space Station, showing that robo...

Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials

  26 Jun 2013
Unlike larger robots, microrobots for applications in the body are too small to carry batteries and motors. To address this challenge, we power and control robots made of magnetic materials using exte...

The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight

  12 Jun 2013
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" — a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array: a modular robot consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take ...

Quadrocopters learn from prior experience to improve slalom flying

  11 Jun 2013
A new video released today by researchers from the Flying Machine Arena shows how a quadrocopter is able to learn from prior experience to improve future performance. This new research is an extens...

Video of human controlling a quadrotor via non-invasive brain/computer interface

  04 Jun 2013
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a non-invasive brain/computer interface that allows humans to remotely control a robot (in this case, a quadrotor) using only their thought...

Multi-viewpoint robotic camera system creates real ‘bullet time’ slow motion replays

  04 Jun 2013
This multi-viewpoint robotic camera system, under development by NHK, links the motion of eight sub-cameras to that of an individual camera, so that all the cameras film the same moving object. "Usin...

Measure your pulse in real-time with Fujitsu’s facial imaging technology

  16 May 2013
Fujitsu has developed technology which can measure a person's pulse in real time by analyzing video of their face. "As blood circulates through the body, the amount of light absorbed by the face vari...

Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery

  06 May 2013
Many surgeries today are performed as open, invasive procedures because surgeons lack the right tools. Our goal is to create the technology that will enable converting these open procedures to minima...

The Swinging Blind Juggler

  03 May 2013
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...

First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot

  02 May 2013
Researchers from the Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard have developed a millimeter-scaled insect robot that can autonomously control its flight. Their findin...

Rethink Robotics and Aldebaran both launch robots for research, teaching and custom development

  26 Apr 2013
Rethink Robotics just launched a version of their Baxter robot armed with a new SDK providing educators and researchers with almost limitless capabilities at an affordable cost. Using ROS and the new ...

Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft

  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...







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