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Special drone collects environmental DNA from trees
ETH Zurich
27 Jan 2023
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal research institute WSL have developed a flying device that can land on tree branches to take samples. This opens up a new dimension for scientists previously reserved for biodiversity researchers.
Big step towards tiny autonomous drones
Joost van de Loo
28 Oct 2022
A new study in Nature magazine describes how flying insects and drones know the difference between up and down.
Emergency-response drones to save lives in the digital skies
Horizon Magazine
20 Jul 2022
Uncrewed aircraft responding to fire and medical emergencies will be used to save lives - if digitalised air-traffic control can help them navigate safely in the skies over Europe.
Exhibitors from ICRA 2022
Abate De Mey
11 Jul 2022
We give a spotlight to four exhibitors from ICRA 2022: Tangram Vision, FLX Solutions, Exyn Technologies, and Pollen Robotics. Each speak to the value their companies bring to robotics and give live demos.
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Controlling a Drone After Sudden Rotor Failure #ICRA2022, with Sihao Sun
Abate De Mey
06 Jun 2022
Dr. Sihao Sun on his research for controlling a quadcopter after one of its rotors faces a sudden failure. His research takes in real-world assumptions where the quadcopter may already be in a compromised, difficult to correct orientation.
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354
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Autonomous Flight Demo with CMU AirLab #ICRA2022, with Sebastian Scherer
Abate De Mey
24 May 2022
Sebastian Scherer from CMU's Airlab gives us a behind-the-scenes demo at ICRA of their Autonomous Flight Control AI. Their approach aims to cooperate with human pilots and act the way they would.
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Bristol scientists develop insect-sized flying robots with flapping wings
University of Bristol
03 Feb 2022
A new drive system for flapping wing autonomous robots has been developed by a University of Bristol team, using a new method of electromechanical zipping that does away with the need for conventional motors and gears.
Flying high-speed drones into the unknown with AI
NCCR Robotics
08 Oct 2021
When it comes to exploring complex and unknown environments such as forests, buildings or caves, drones are hard to beat. They are fast, agile and small, and they can carry sensors and payloads virtua...
New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots
NCCR Robotics
22 Jul 2021
To be useful, drones need to be quick. Because of their limited battery life they must complete whatever task they have – searching for survivors on a disaster site, inspecting a building, deliverin...
Sniffy Bug: a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters in cluttered environments
Bart Duisterhof and Guido de Croon
15 Jul 2021
Tiny drones are ideal candidates for fully autonomous jobs that are too dangerous or time-consuming for humans. A commonly shared dream by engineers and fire & rescue services, would be to have swarms...
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Autonomous Aircraft by Xwing, with Maxime Gariel
Abate De Mey
12 Jul 2021
Robohub Podcast · Autonomous Aircraft
Abate talks to Maxime Gariel, CTO of Xwing about the autonomous flight technology they are developing.
At Xwing, they are converting traditional aircr...
An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used in disasters like the Florida condo collapse
Robin Murphy
01 Jul 2021
A drone flies above search and rescue personnel at the site of the Champlain Towers South Condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has depl...
Helping drone swarms avoid obstacles without hitting each other
EPFL
20 May 2021
By Clara Marc
There is strength in numbers. That’s true not only for humans, but for drones too. By flying in a swarm, they can cover larger areas and collect a wider range of data, since each dr...
Adam Bry and Hayk Martiros’s talk – Skydio Autonomy: Research in Robust Visual Navigation and Real-Time 3D Reconstruction (with video)
Robotics Today
09 Mar 2021
In the last online technical talk, Adam Bry and Hayk Martiros from Skydio explained how their company tackles real-world issues when it comes to drone flying.
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Skydio is the leading US dr...
Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones
MIT News
02 Mar 2021
By Daniel Ackerman
If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in fl...
Self-supervised learning of visual appearance solves fundamental problems of optical flow
Guido de Croon
19 Jan 2021
Flying insects as inspiration to AI for small drones
How do honeybees land on flowers or avoid obstacles? One would expect such questions to be mostly of interest to biologists. However, the rise o...
How to keep drones flying when a motor fails
NCCR Robotics
14 Jan 2021
Robotics researchers at the University of Zurich show how onboard cameras can be used to keep damaged quadcopters in the air and flying stably – even without GPS....
Davide Scaramuzza’s seminar – Autonomous, agile micro drones: Perception, learning, and control (with video)
Robotics Today
24 Nov 2020
A few days ago, Robotics Today hosted an online seminar with Professor Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich. The seminar was recorded, so you can watch it now in case you missed it....
Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes
Imperial College London
06 Nov 2020
By Caroline Brogan
Imperial researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests....
A raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
NCCR Robotics
31 Oct 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
NCCR Robotics researchers at EPFL have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility....
Lily the barn owl reveals how birds fly in gusty winds
University of Bristol
26 Oct 2020
Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Royal Veterinary College have discovered how birds are able to fly in gusty conditions – findings that could inform the development of bio-inspired ...
Drones learn acrobatics by themselves
NCCR Robotics
24 Jun 2020
Researchers from NCCR Robotics at the University of Zurich and Intel developed an algorithm that pushes autonomous drones to their physical limit....
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RoboBee’s Untethered Flight, with Farrell Helbling
Kate Zhou
20 May 2020
In this episode, Kate Zhou interviews Farrell Helbling, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Microrobotics lab, who has worked on developing the RoboBee, an insect-inspired robot that is the lightest vehicl...
This drone can play dodgeball – and win
NCCR Robotics
19 Mar 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
Drones can do many things, but avoiding obstacles is not their strongest suit yet – especially when they move quickly. Although many flying robots are equipped with cameras that...
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Coordination, Cooperation, and Collaboration, with Vijay Kumar
Lilly Clark
01 Mar 2020
In this interview, Lilly interviews Vijay Kumar, Professor and Dean at the University of Pennsylvania. He discusses coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-robot systems. He also explain...
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281
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On Demand Drone Deliveries, with Yariv Bash
Abate De Mey
05 Mar 2019
In this episode Abate interviews Yariv Bash from Flytrex. Yariv discusses how Flytrex works in cooperation with local businesses in a city to use drones to rapidly transport goods in a local region. A...
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Safe Robot Learning on Hardware, with Jaime Fernández Fisac
Audrow Nash
04 Feb 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Jaime Fernández Fisac, a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, working with Professors Shankar Sastry, Claire Tomlin, and Anca Dragan. Fisac is ...
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IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 2 of 3), with Kristoffer Richardsson, Michael Zillich and Paulo Alvito
Audrow Nash
27 Dec 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Kristoffer Richardsson, Michael Zillich, and Paulo Alvito....
Indoor drone shows are here
Markus Waibel
09 Jan 2018
2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
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Smart Swarms, with Vijay Kumar
Jack Rasiel
28 Oct 2017
In this episode, Jack Rasiel interviews Vijay Kumar, Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Kumar discusses the guiding ideas behind his research on micro unmanned aeri...
New RoboBee flies, dives, swims, and explodes out the of water
Wyss Institute
27 Oct 2017
By Leah Burrows
We’ve seen RoboBees that can fly, stick to walls, and dive into water. Now, get ready for a hybrid RoboBee that can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water, and ...
Energy, enthusiasm and spirit of cooperation: Award winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 announced
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
The referees’ special awards ERL Emergency Robots 2017
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
#ERLEmergency2017 in tweets
SPARC
27 Sep 2017
The ERL Emergency Robots 2017 (#ERLemergency2017) major tournament in Piombino, Italy, gathered 130 participants from 16 universities and companies from 8 European countries. Participating teams desig...
Drones can almost see in the dark
Davide Scaramuzza
26 Sep 2017
We want to share with you our recent breakthrough teaching drones to fly using an eye-inspired camera, which opens the door to them performing fast, agile maneuvers and flying in low-light environment...
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics
Robohub Editors
23 Sep 2017
Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
