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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”
Nathan Labhart
24 Mar 2013
This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, Barry Trimmer (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about so...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 1)”
Nathan Labhart
18 Mar 2013
This is the fourth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, where Rolf Pfeifer starts introducing a set of “Design Principles” for intelligent systems, as outlined in the book “How the Body Shapes t...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”
Nathan Labhart
09 Mar 2013
In this lecture Rolf Pfeifer presents some first steps toward a “theory of intelligence”., followed by guest lectures by Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College, Greece) on computers and cognition, a...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”
Nathan Labhart
01 Mar 2013
In this 2nd part of the ShanghAI Lectures, Rolf Pfeifer looks at the paradigm “Cognition as Computation”, show its successes and failures and justifies the need for an embodied perspective. Follo...
ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 1 “Intelligence – An eternal conundrum”
Nathan Labhart
22 Feb 2013
In this first part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer gives an overview of the content and scope of the project, discusses the meaning of “Intelligence”, the Turing Test, and IQ....
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...
Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains feedback control and talks about the coming Machine Revolution
Markus Waibel
04 Feb 2013
During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D'Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group's impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing, an...
Robotic dragonflies take to the sky (with your help)
Mike Hamer
08 Nov 2012
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Robot Dragonfly from TechJect. Developed over four years by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the US Air Force, the researchers are now i...
Most US drones openly broadcast secret video feeds | Danger Room | Wired.com
Andra Keay
29 Oct 2012
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, ...
Robot bootcamp episode 2: Controlllers | Trossen Robotics
RobotGrrl
23 Oct 2012
Great video over at Trossen Robotics about various brains for your robot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyHlt9VBBY
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Making an iCub robot “clever”
Mike Hamer
23 Oct 2012
As part of the IM-CLeVeR project, the IDSIA robotics laboratory recently released a video-overview of their work on the technologies, architectures and algorithms required to give an iCub robot mo...
Drone on YOMYOMF
John Payne
17 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/u8PzkGM60Lc
YOMYOMF is one of a long, and growing, list of YouTube funded channels. Drone is a four-part series of short-format videos, telling the story of a humanoid com...
DARPA Robotics Challenge update | IEEE Spectrum
Mike Hamer
16 Oct 2012
Dr. Gill Pratt gave a keynote address at IROS and talked about the DARPA Robotics Challenge, including a new video of the Boston Dynamics ATLAS...
http://youtu.be/AQXvM6Am6BQ
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Robot video roundup: Gangnam style
Andra Keay
03 Oct 2012
What's better than a selection of fun robot videos to brighten up the week? This week's videos range from the sublime of "How to engineer a dog" and "Flying copters shooting hoops" to the ridiculously...
2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival
John Payne
24 Jul 2012
The 2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival screening took place nine days ago, in the 3LD Art & Technology Center (New York City). Selected entries appear on the Robot Film Festival website, and Au...
Aldebaran’s Shape the World recruiting video
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/-KvEyV8X5II
Having noticed a recent trend towards robotics companies releasing videos with high production values, this one caught my eye. Aldebaran Robotics is hiring, and produced a...
Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong
Ioannis K. Erripis
06 Jun 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY
In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...
