TU Delft

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...

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...

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...

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...