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Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson
ETH Zurich
07 Oct 2014
The future is in the hands of tiny robots, really tiny robots — and the expectation is that they will perform miraculous tasks, such as eye surgery and environmental cleanup.
Brad Nelson heads th...
Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss
Mark Mueller
04 Mar 2014
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, ...
Microsoft pays 5M CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures
Robohub Editors
07 Feb 2014
ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research. Over five years, Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT re...
Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel
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
Hallie Siegel
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...
Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t
Adrien Briod
30 Oct 2013
Gimball is a flying robot that survives collisions. It weighs just 370g for 34cm in diameter. Photo credit: A. Herzog, EPFL.
Generally, flying robots are programmed to avoid obstacles, which is far ...
Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry, improve safety for inspectors
Students take a research tour with Damen ship repairs in Rotterdam.
A team of students from ETH Zurich and ZHdK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of cond...
Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials
Simone Schürle
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
Raymond Oung
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 ...
Behind the scenes at TED Global: Raffaello D’Andrea and team demo amazing quadrotor “athletes”
Markus Waibel and Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
With reporting and photos by Dario Brescianini and Mark Mueller and timelapse video by James Duncan Davidson.
Raffaello D'Andrea juggles quadrotors at TED Global 2013.
A quadrocopter swoops th...
Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls
Sabine Hauert
15 May 2013
The Airburr, a light-weight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my PhD lab) at EPFL, was designed to fly in cluttered environments. Unlike most flying robot, which avoid contact a...
The Swinging Blind Juggler
Markus Waibel
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...
Designed to mingle: Rezero ballbot’s smooth moves can handle a crowd
Hallie Siegel
05 Mar 2013
Designing robots that can function outside of controlled, factory environments isn’t easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to...
Rapyuta: The RoboEarth Cloud Engine
Dominique Hunziker
25 Feb 2013
In recent years cloud computing has made an entrance into our lives. Naturally, this begs the question how cloud computing can be used in robotics applications. With Rapyuta, the RoboEarth Cloud Engin...
Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
Markus Waibel
21 Feb 2013
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...
Video: Quadrocopter learns from its mistakes, perfects air racing
Markus Waibel
08 Nov 2012
Manual programming of robots only gets you so far. And, as you can see in the video, for quadrocopters that's not very far at all (see the "Without Learning" part starting at 1:30):...
Video: Watch flying robots cooperate, throw and catch balls
Markus Waibel
27 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyGJBV1xnJI
My colleagues at the ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have just released a new video. Here is what Robin Ritz, Lead Researcher on the project, has ...
Thymio II toolset complete
John Payne
11 Sep 2012
http://youtu.be/RTi7DjqlGO8
Thymio II was introduced at the 2011 EPFL Robotic Festival. Now, with the introduction of Aseba, the creative toolset associated with it is complete. Aseba allows even yo...
Future cities, with Matthias Kohler
Podcast team
07 Sep 2012
Link to audio file (38:04)Link to transcriptIn today’s episode we speak with Matthias Kohler, faculty at ETHZ and renowned architect, about his work in robotic architecture at the Future Cities Labo...
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Distributed flight array, with Raymond Oung
Podcast team
13 Aug 2010
Link to audio file (20:43)
In this episode, we discover an aerial modular robot called the Distributed Flight Array. To talk about this, we have Raymond Oung from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tec...
