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This flying machine uses ducted fans for propulsion and control
Michael Muehlebach
05 Jan 2016
The Flying Platform is a new flying machine developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich. Its purpose is to study the use of electric ducted fans as control and propulsion ...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 1
Robohub Editors
21 Dec 2015
Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to info [at] robohub.org!...
Body-enhancing exoskeletons could be stepping into industrial trials next year
Horizon Magazine
01 Dec 2015
by Jon Cartwright
Wearable technology uses electric motors and springs to augment the strength and balance of the human body. It has long been the subject of military research, but now engineers be...
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Embodied Quadrotors, with Davide Scaramuzza
Audrow Nash
31 Oct 2015
Transcript below.
In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Davide Scaramuzza, Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Zurich and leader of the Robotics and Perception Group, about ...
Four-legged robot that efficiently handles challenging terrain
ETH Zurich
30 Oct 2015
StarlETH is a multi-purpose legged transporter robot developed at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. Combining versatility, speed, robustness, and efficiency, StarlETH walks, climbs, and runs over...
Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread
Marianne Lucien and ETH Zurich
07 Oct 2015
Inspired to take 3D printing technology to new heights, ETH Zurich and MIT researchers create "Rock Print" -- a full-scale architectural installation on display at the Chicago Architecture Biennial u...
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192
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Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson
Audrow Nash
02 Oct 2015
Transcript below.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Brad Nelson, Professor at ETH Zurich, about his research regarding micro and nano robotics. They discuss many of Nelson’s projects: ret...
Key take-aways from the DroneApps Forum
Markus Waibel
02 Oct 2015
The first DroneApps Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland, recently assembled 150 drone professionals from Europe, the US, Japan, and Australia for a two-day exchange of ideas. What set the event apart was ...
Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on
Hallie Siegel
18 Sep 2015
[tweetquote]Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across.[/tweetquote] Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridg...
Tweets from #DroneApps
Robohub Editors
14 Sep 2015
DroneApps is a two-day forum for executives in charge of planning and leading the commercial use of drones in companies looking to increase productivity, reduce risks and conquer new markets, taking ...
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Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin
Audrow Nash
04 Sep 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics' tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. Th...
Solar-powered flight for 81 hours: A new endurance world record
Philipp Oettershagen
31 Jul 2015
Two weeks after demonstrating AtlantikSolar’s first 24-hour flight, the fixed-wing team of ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab has reached another milestone: 81.5 hours and 2316 km of continuou...
Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!
Philipp Oettershagen
09 Jul 2015
The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...
‘Tailsitter’ flying robot hovers and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm
Robin Ritz
04 Jun 2015
In August 2014 Google [x] announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon's Prime Air. Called Project Wing, the system was based on a mechanically simple "t...
A self-deploying, foldable quadrotor for rapid rescue
NCCR Robotics
18 May 2015
The use of robots to find victims after natural disasters is fast becoming commonplace, with well documented cases where robots have been sent into areas too dangerous for rescue workers. While the ...
Noonee testing Chairless Chair exoskeleton at Audi production plants
NCCR Robotics
06 May 2015
Last month, Swiss startup noonee completed the first round of testing for their Chairless Chair with German car manufacturer Audi. The Chairless Chair is a wearable sitting exoskeleton for peopl...
Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers
Robohub Editors
05 May 2015
This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadro...
Tracing human evolution with robots
ETH Zurich
16 Apr 2015
By Samuel Schlaefli
With the help of robots, archaeologists may soon be able to compare their findings with data from thousands of experimental reference samples, enabling them to determine tool us...
Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS
Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza
30 Mar 2015
When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...
Revolutionising building and construction sites
ETH Zurich
10 Mar 2015
By Felix Würsten and Corinne Hodel (Interview).
Digital technologies have already turned many areas of the economy inside out. In this interview with Swiss NCCR Digital Fabrication researchers M...
New Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in architecture and digital fabrication at ETHZ
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
19 Feb 2015
In September a new Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ETH in Architecture and Digital Fabrication will be offered by the Gramazio Kohler Research chair at ETH Zurich. This one-year, full-time program f...
Sensory-motor tissues for soft robots
NCCR Robotics
18 Feb 2015
In this video, PhD student at LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics Jun Shintake explains his project "Sensory-Motor tissues for Soft Robots"....
Ground-flight collaboration
NCCR Robotics
16 Feb 2015
Working in the field of rescue robotics, the Robotics Perception Group (UZH and NCCR Robotics) works on how to get air robots communicating with ground robots, with the aim of exploiting the strength...
Pleurobot: Multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot
NCCR Robotics
12 Feb 2015
The Pleurobot is a bioinspired robot being developed by the BioRob at EPFL and NCCR Robotics. Taking it's cues from the salamander, the Pleurobot is a walking robot that can change its gait to help it...
Flyability wins $1M Drones for Good competition
NCCR Robotics
10 Feb 2015
Flyability, a spin off company from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics, has won the $1M inaugural UAE Drones for Good competition with Gimball, the world’s first crash resilient drone....
Robotics Perception Group celebrates 3 year anniversary
NCCR Robotics
09 Feb 2015
This week, Prof. Davide Scaramuzza's lab (RPG, UZH) turns three and, in typical robotics style, they've released a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi_YZlPva8&feature=youtu.be
Congratu...
Will nanotechnology soon allow you to ‘swallow the doctor’? | CNN
Hallie Siegel
05 Feb 2015
At ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, mechanical engineer Brad Nelson and his team have worked on nanobots for a decade, and are now ready to think big: "We're making microscopic r...
Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics
NCCR Robotics
04 Feb 2015
Much has been made of the numerous advances in robotic prosthetics and orthotics (P/O) over recent years, and the question of how to control these devices so that they work in accordance with the inte...
Raffaello D’Andrea on the future of robotics
Massimo Russo and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
28 Jan 2015
Raffaello D’Andrea’s robots can do amazing things: play soccer and ping-pong, perform complex choreographed acrobatics in the air, build towers brick by brick, and move pallets around warehouses. ...
DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk
NCCR Robotics
21 Jan 2015
The issue of how to use one robot across multiple terrains is an ongoing question in robotics research. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Ro...
Revolutionary implant enables broken spinal cord to function again
NCCR Robotics
08 Jan 2015
A team from EPFL and NCCR Robotics lead by Profs Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine and Silvestro Micera published an article in Science today describing their e-dura implant that could revo...
Walking assistive devices for the elderly
Jeremy Olivier and NCCR Robotics
07 Jan 2015
When thinking about robots that can be used to care for the elderly, most people imagine humanoid robots that are meant to help with cooking, cleaning and socializing. But what if robots could be u...
Robot looks like a fish to ride with marine life | Phys.org
Hallie Siegel
06 Jan 2015
Students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich are working on a project that could deliver an ideal device for marine life filming, minus the turbulence and appearance that cou...
ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich
ETH Zurich
12 Dec 2014
ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational research centre at the interface of medicine, science and engineering: the Wyss Translational Center Zurich. A USD 120 million ...
Aeon Scientific wins 2014 Swiss Technology Award
Michael Keller and ETH Zurich
26 Nov 2014
The cardiologist sits in the control room next to the operating theatre and uses a joystick to steer a catheter through the patient's blood vessel into the heart's chambers to treat the card...
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...
