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Unmanned and underneath: Stay in the know about underwater drones

Dan Gettinger 02 Nov 2016

Editor's note: This article is adapted from a post from November 2015 and includes recent developments and updated spending figures. In October 2016, the U.K. Royal Navy hosted Unmanned Warr...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision

Thomas Schmickl 22 Dec 2015

Our penultimate video features the initial "Big Vision" trailer we produced at the beginning of this project. The video showcases the basic components of the robotic system we targeted (surface st...

New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration

XPRIZE 17 Dec 2015

At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...

Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the Venice Lagoon (CoCoRo Video #50/52)

Thomas Schmickl 15 Dec 2015

Our underwater swarm research started in a few cubic centimeters of water with some naked electronics on a table. Over the next three and a half years, our swarm increased by a factor of 40, and ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #49/52: Base stations

Thomas Schmickl 08 Dec 2015

During the past year we have shown many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlight was always on the Lily and the Jeff robots. However, there is now another star in the team and this tr...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops

Thomas Schmickl 01 Dec 2015

Most of the videos from The Year of CoCoRo were shot during workshops we held throughout the project. These workshops, which were usually focussed on one or several specific demonstrators, were wha...

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Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams

Ron Vanderkley 30 Nov 2015

Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show

Thomas Schmickl 24 Nov 2015

In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT -- Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be overshad...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling

Thomas Schmickl 17 Nov 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...

What you need to know about underwater drones

Dan Gettinger 16 Nov 2015

Late last month, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus appointed Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, a position that was created in April...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #36/52: Relay swarm

Thomas Schmickl 08 Sep 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication

Thomas Schmickl 01 Sep 2015

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #20/52: Autonomous docking with Jeff robots

Thomas Schmickl 22 May 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo �...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #19/52: Electric confinement in the harbour

Thomas Schmickl 20 May 2015

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #18/52: Confining Jeff robots with an electric field

Thomas Schmickl 04 May 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #17/52: Lily confinement by bluelight

Thomas Schmickl 30 Apr 2015

CoCoRo: New video series tracks dev’t of collective behaviour in autonomous underwater swarm

Thomas Schmickl 28 Apr 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project comprises the largest autonomous underwater swarm in the world. Following three-and-a-half years of intensive research, CoCoRo's interdi...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #16/52: JeffCam in a lake

Thomas Schmickl 19 Apr 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #15/52: TRAILER LilyCam in a wild river

Thomas Schmickl 12 Apr 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #14/52: LilyCam in a Lake

Thomas Schmickl 05 Apr 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #13/52: Lilycam in nature

Thomas Schmickl 29 Mar 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video#12/52: Fun with Jeff in the pool

Thomas Schmickl 22 Mar 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #11/52: Out of the lab in Livorno

Thomas Schmickl 15 Mar 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #10/52: Feeding Jeff with magnets

Thomas Schmickl 08 Mar 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #09/52: Jeff in the water current

Thomas Schmickl 01 Mar 2015

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #08/52: Lily emergent taxis

Thomas Schmickl 22 Feb 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #07/52: Lily flocking by slimemold

Thomas Schmickl 15 Feb 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #06/52: Jeff swarm size measurement

Thomas Schmickl 08 Feb 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #05/52: Lily swarm size awareness

Thomas Schmickl 08 Feb 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour

Thomas Schmickl 25 Jan 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #03/52: Jeff robots explore

Thomas Schmickl 18 Jan 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #02/52: Overview of largest swarm

Thomas Schmickl 11 Jan 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #01/52: Overview of the Jeff robot

Thomas Schmickl 04 Jan 2015

CoCoRo CeBIT

Thomas Schmickl 08 Oct 2014

Short CoCoRo AUV swarm underwater video

Thomas Schmickl 16 Jul 2014

Underwater ROV aids in investigation, searches for victims in South Korean ferry tragedy

Hallie Siegel 02 May 2014

The search and rescue team involved in the recent South Korean ferry tragedy has deployed a remotely-operated underwater robot to help in the investigation and hopeful search for possible survivors in...