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Bioinspired robotics #3: Wearables, with Conor Walsh

Wyss Institute 01 Dec 2015

In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...

ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10

Frank E. Schneider 01 Dec 2015

Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...

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...

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...

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

Adriana Hamacher 27 Nov 2015

[clear] Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in academia and the vibrant robotics startup ecosystem is no easy task. This Wednesday in the UK city of Bristol, a free public event titled ...

Talking Machines: Probabilistic programming, with Ben Vigoda

Talking Machines 26 Nov 2015

In episode twenty four we talk with Ben Vigoda about his work in probabilistic programming (everything from his thesis, to his new company)....

On the ethics of research in robotics, with Raja Chatila

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 25 Nov 2015

In this video lecture, IEEE Fellow Raja Chatila shares his views on [tweetquote]why roboticists are duty-bound to educate the wider public on the state of advanced robotics[/tweetquote], and also t...

How to calculate a robot’s forward kinematics in 5 easy steps

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 25 Nov 2015

Calculating the forward kinematics is often a vital first step to using a new robot in research. While there are some good tutorials available online, up until now there hasn't been a simple step-by-s...

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...

European Robotics Week #ERW2015: 600+ events focusing on robots & society

euRobotics AISBL 19 Nov 2015

Over 600 events across the region will look at how robots will impact the way European citizens work, live and learn, as part of the 2015 European Robotics Week (#ERW2015), running 23-29 November....

Four classic movie robots that are no longer far fetched

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 18 Nov 2015

Cinemagoers have long been fascinated by fictional robots, but they're not usually realistic -- until now. Thanks to technological advancements, some of the classic movie robots are now a realistic p...

NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions

MIT News 18 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL NASA announced yesterday that MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will...

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...

“Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours

MIT News 17 Nov 2015

[clear] Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes — from Earth’s changing climate ...

Echoes of the DRC at Humanoids 2015

Ricardo Téllez 13 Nov 2015

Last week, the Humanoids 2015 conference was held in Seoul, Korea. It's the first event to focus on humanoid robots since the Darpa Robotics Challenge (DRC) earlier this year and, in fact, the locati...

A new versatile gripper with electroadhesion

NCCR Robotics 11 Nov 2015

From early childhood, when a person picks up an object using their hands they use haptic feedback to automatically adjust the force of their grip according to the object they are lifting. A completely...

Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 10 Nov 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Andra Keay, directo...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #45/52: Swarm control

Thomas Schmickl 10 Nov 2015

Bioinspired robotics #2: Materials, manufacturing & design, with Robert Wood

Wyss Institute 09 Nov 2015

Emotionally literate tech to help treat autism

Horizon Magazine and Sophie Hebden 06 Nov 2015

Few could deny the power of computer games and avatars to entertain us and perhaps even educate us. But now researchers are turning to internet and robotic technologies to develop new ways of helping ...

Talking Machines: Digital humanities with David Mimno

Talking Machines 06 Nov 2015

In episode 23 we talk with David Mimno of Cornell University about his work in the digital humanities, and explore what machine learning can tell us about lady zombie ghosts and huge bodies of liter...

Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph: Video demo

CSAIL MIT 03 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously di...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #44/52: Lily shoaling

Thomas Schmickl 03 Nov 2015

Robots in Depth: Michael Rubenstein on the challenge of building 1,024 Kilobots

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 30 Oct 2015

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...

Four influential technologies with roots in robotics

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 29 Oct 2015

Robotics research has such strong links with several other research fields that, without it, the modern world might not have some of its most promising consumer technologies....

Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal

Wyss Institute 28 Oct 2015

Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 27 Oct 2015

In this short video lecture, Ayanna M. Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Georgia Institute of Technology...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching

Thomas Schmickl 27 Oct 2015

Crowdsourcing in machine learning, with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research

Talking Machines 26 Oct 2015

In episode twenty two we talk with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England about his work using crowdsourcing in Machine Learning, we take a look at the workshops being presented at NIPS this ye...

RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea

Wyss Institute 24 Oct 2015

By Leah Burrows | SEAS Communications Engineers have been trying to design functional aerial-aquatic vehicles for decades with little success. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirem...

Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

MIT News 22 Oct 2015

by Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Harbor seals have an amazingly fine-tuned sense for detecting prey, as marine biologists have noted for years. Even when blindfolded, trained seals are able to ch...

Stanford’s self-driving Delorean goes drifting for Back to the Future Day

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 21 Oct 2015

Last night, I attended Stanford’s unveiling of their newest research vehicle for self-driving. An old Delorean has been heavily modified in order to perform drifting experiments - where you let the ...

Liatris: looking to change how robots see the world

Mark Silliman 20 Oct 2015

Fully autonomous robotics could be developed today if objects could tell a robot what they are, their purpose and how to utilize them. Liatris is a new open source project built with ROS. Its objectiv...

The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud

Ricardo Téllez 20 Oct 2015

The Construct is a Barcelona based startup created to simplify the simulation of robots. The goal is to allow anybody to simulate complex robots and environments with minimal knowledge, without having...

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