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Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment
Ioannis K. Erripis
04 Sep 2015
In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication
Thomas Schmickl
01 Sep 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...
Evolved virtual creatures as content
Dan Lessin
28 Aug 2015
Do you like cat videos? Or maybe you prefer golden eagles hunting goats by throwing them off cliffs? Or perhaps you favor strange new life forms, recently discovered at the bottom of the Pacific? Wha...
Talking Machines: Active learning and machine learning in neuroscience, with Microsoft’s Sham Kakade
Talking Machines
27 Aug 2015
In episode eighteen we talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work that touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning....
Removing steps of common processes
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
27 Aug 2015
Being able to control the moment when concrete turns from liquid to solid is crucial for digitally fabricated concrete structures. The timing of this process can be controlled by tuning the chemistry ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #34/52: Relay chain basics
Thomas Schmickl
25 Aug 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...
When you need someone from Canada to calibrate your robot in New Zealand
Ilian Bonev
20 Aug 2015
Many researchers think that robot calibration is an issue that has been successfully resolved decades ago, but they are wrong. While the underlying theory is well established, its practical applicatio...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #33/52: Combined scenario number one – relay chain
Thomas Schmickl
18 Aug 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...
Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten
Talking Machines
14 Aug 2015
In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology....
The Year of CoCoRo Video #32/52: Combined scenario number one – target find
Thomas Schmickl
11 Aug 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 – we...
Buzz: A novel programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms
A new programming language designed specifically for robot swarms, Buzz is based on the idea that a developer must be allowed to pick the most comfortable approach to behavioral design - whether that...
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Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru
Audrow Nash
07 Aug 2015
Transcript below.
In this interview, Audrow Nash talks to two teams from Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at the 2015 International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA)....
Robotic research: Are we applying the scientific method?
Gianluca Antonelli and Frontiers in Robotics and AI
05 Aug 2015
Once upon a time validation of robotic research was relatively straightforward. Let us assume, for example, that a researcher had published in a journal a novel adaptive control law with a numerical ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #31/52: Combined scenario number one – base station arrival
Thomas Schmickl
04 Aug 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 – we...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #30/52: Combined scenario number one
Thomas Schmickl
29 Jul 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 – we...
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Cheetah 2, with Sangbae Kim
Audrow Nash
24 Jul 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Sangbae Kim, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 201...
Repeatable robotics: Standards and benchmarks from frontier science to applied technology
Robohub Editors
23 Jul 2015
In a recent article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Gianluca Antonelli suggests that the Grand Challenge of robotics is to systematize the way its research is conducted. At Robohub we believe this is...
Towards standardized experiments in human robot interactions
Nicole Mirnig
23 Jul 2015
While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the res...
A new artificial compound eye
NCCR Robotics
23 Jul 2015
Taking cues from the natural world is growing ever more popular in robotics. This week, in a paper published by the Royal Society, a team from NCCR Robotics and LIS, EPFL present a revolutionary new ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #29/52: Jeff – preprogrammed trajectory
Thomas Schmickl
22 Jul 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 ...
Could a robot make a pizza? The RoDyMan project, with Bruno Siciliano
In this video lecture, Bruno Siciliano from PRISMA Lab at the University of Naples, Italy, takes us through a new project in robotic dynamic manipulation, called RoDyMan. Centered on the task of ...
Really really big data and machine learning in business, with Max Welling
Talking Machines
17 Jul 2015
In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #28/52: All magnet finding
Thomas Schmickl
14 Jul 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 ...
Alan Turing robot makes its debut at Startup Village 2015
Robohub Editors
10 Jul 2015
Tho startups from the robotics cluster at Skolkovo — Nanosemantics and Lexy — teamed up with the Russian Neurobotics, to recreate a robotic version of the British computer science pioneer A...
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Towards Automating Fieldwork, with Hans-Peter Grothaus
Per Sjöborg
10 Jul 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Per Sjöborg talks to Hans-Peter Grothaus, from CLAAS, about automation in agriculture....
Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!
Philipp Oettershagen
09 Jul 2015
The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...
Building the Jibo prototype: Interview with VP Engineering Andy Atkins
Jibo
08 Jul 2015
Our most recent video update comes from our VP of Engineering Andy Atkins. Take a sneak peak inside the minds of our engineers as they finish our newest Jibo P2s, to find out what kinds of challenges ...
#ICRAcam (Part 5): Flying w/o sensors, learning to swim, manipulating from primitives, & injecting at high speed
Robohub Editors
08 Jul 2015
In Part Five of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about passively stabilizing MAVs without using inertial sensors, a robot that learns different swimming gaits from experience, building high level m...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #27/52: Jeff target find in a large pool
Thomas Schmickl
08 Jul 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 ...
Talking Machines: On ‘solving intelligence’, with DeepMind’s Nando de Freitas
Talking Machines
03 Jul 2015
In episode fourteen we talk with Nando de Freitas. He’s a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior staff research scientist Google DeepMind. Right now he’s focusing o...
#ICRAcam (Part 4): Robot-assisted microsurgery, clothing de-wrinkler, collaborative interaction, & 3D scene reconstruction
Robohub Editors
30 Jun 2015
In Part Four of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about control for a microsurgical device for soft tissue, a robot that can find wrinkles in clothing and straighten them out, collaborative task le...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #26/52: Magnetic target – four compartments
Thomas Schmickl
30 Jun 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 ...
Towards independence: A shared control BCI telepresence robot
NCCR Robotics
29 Jun 2015
For those with extreme mobility problems, such as paralysis following spinal cord injury or neurological disease, telepresence can greatly help to offset social isolation. However, controlling a mobil...
Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring, with Lei Cui
Ron Vanderkley
26 Jun 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Lei Cui from Curtin University about his team’s work on 3D printable hand orthosis for rehabilitation, a task-oriented 4-...
Study shows public perception of robotics generally positive in EU, but declining
Adriana Hamacher and Hallie Siegel
25 Jun 2015
A major study into European attitudes toward automation has found that while almost two thirds of people polled feel generally positive about robots, public acceptance of them in the EU is in dec...
Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
Robohub Editors
24 Jun 2015
FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...
