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#ICRAcam (Part 3): IKEA assembly-bots, RoboSherlock, MRI-powered millirobots and human-robot contact

Robohub Editors 23 Jun 2015

In Part Three of our ICRAcam series, you'll learn about what it takes to get a robot to build IKEA furniture, information processing for robot perception, an MRI-powered millibot that shoots like a G...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #25/52: Autonomous underwater camera agent

Thomas Schmickl 22 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 �...

Evolving robot swarm behaviour suggests forgetting may be important to cultural evolution

Alan Winfield 19 Jun 2015

Our latest paper from the Artificial Culture project has just been published: On the Evolution of Behaviors through Embodied Imitation....

The Year of CoCoRo Video #24/52: Jeff robots explore

Thomas Schmickl 19 Jun 2015

#ICRAcam (Part 2): Handheld cobots, magnetic manipulators, mini robotic probes, and the Butterfly problem revisited

Robohub Editors 18 Jun 2015

Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we've got some more highlights from some of this year’s exciting papers. We’ll be sharing lots more ICRAcam videos over the next ...

#ICRAcam (Part 1): Adhesion grippers, robot life cycles, car-towing bots, and motion planning

Robohub Editors 16 Jun 2015

There was so much great research presented at ICRA in Seattle this year that it was tough to find the time to see it all. Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we are able to...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #23/52: Lily aggregation experiments

Thomas Schmickl 15 Jun 2015

Gazebo gets better at flying and diving

Open Source Robotics Foundation 15 Jun 2015

As another result of the exciting DARPA Robotics Challenge, Gazebo has improved its capabilities in the aeronautics and hydrodynamics fields. We expect these changes to benefit the way UAVs and UUVs a...

What’s hot in robotics? Four trends to watch

Frank Tobe 11 Jun 2015

Four diverse trends are having a big effect on the robotics industry worldwide, and the global media and financial gurus are paying attention to the process....

The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory

Sally Applin and Michael Fischer 10 Jun 2015

Automating vehicles simplifies operation for humans but also increases complexity. In order to negotiate a safe journey within a crowded transportation system, cars must communicate messages not only...

Soft robotics for adaptive building facades

ETH Zurich 09 Jun 2015

By Arno Schlüter Today, building envelopes tend to be static and unable to adapt to changing conditions. Now, for the first time, an adaptable façade has been used for the newly inaugurated House o...

Robotic assistive devices for independent living

Kavita Krishnaswamy and Tim Oates 08 Jun 2015

Autonomy is the soul of independent daily living, and a variety of assistive devices already exist to help people with severe physical disabilities achieve this. But many of them are designed to be us...

‘Tailsitter’ flying robot hovers and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm

Robin Ritz 04 Jun 2015

In August 2014 Google [x] announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon's Prime Air. Called Project Wing, the system was based on a mechanically simple "t...

Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng

Talking Machines 04 Jun 2015

In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....

Amazon challenges robotics’ hot topic: Perception

Frank Tobe 02 Jun 2015

Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and pick...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #22/52: Aggregation magnets

Thomas Schmickl 01 Jun 2015

Team RBO from Berlin wins Amazon Picking Challenge convincingly

Andra Keay 29 May 2015

The Amazon Picking Challenge is over and two things stood out. One: how many different arm gripper solutions were possible; and two: just how difficult the challenge still is. The gap between the top...

Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research: Deadline June 5

Andra Keay 28 May 2015

Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research grants for projects in 2016. Researchers at non-profit institutions world wide can apply. LOIs can be submitted until June 5....

DARPA’s legacy: Open source simulation for robotics development and testing

DARPA Robotics Challenge 27 May 2015

When the DARPA Robotics Challenge first began to coalesce from an idea to a plan, we knew that we wanted to create a lasting legacy not only for robot hardware capabilities, but also for robotics simu...

Aerial Manipulation: Lecture by Bruno Siciliano

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 26 May 2015

In this video lecture, Bruno Siciliano from PRISMA Lab at the University of Naples, Italy, walks us through advances in aerial manipulation with reference to three projects funded through the Europe...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #21/52: Jeff docking Livorno

Thomas Schmickl 25 May 2015

Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence on privacy in the age of machine learning

Talking Machines 22 May 2015

In episode eleven we chat with Neil Lawrence from the University of Sheffield. We talk about the problems of privacy in the age of machine learning, and the responsibilities that come with using mach...

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

Thomas Schmickl 22 May 2015

Bionic athletes compete in disciplines drawn from everyday life

ETH Zurich 21 May 2015

By: Vanessa Bleich Next year's Cybathlon will host people with physical disabilities equipped with advanced assistive devices including robotic technologies. The goal of this unique competition is to...

Architectural robots: The shape of the robots that will shape your home

Petr Novikov and DOM 21 May 2015

While robots are being deployed in factories at a high pace, their presence on construction sites is close to nil. However, there are many architectural robotics research projects in academia, and du...

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

Thomas Schmickl 20 May 2015

Robotics Fast Track now accepting applications

Open Source Robotics Foundation 19 May 2015

We’re excited to announce that OSRF and BIT Systems are seeking innovative and revolutionary robotics projects for the Robotics Fast Track (RFT) effort, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Pr...

A self-deploying, foldable quadrotor for rapid rescue

NCCR Robotics 18 May 2015

The use of robots to find victims after natural disasters is fast becoming commonplace, with well documented cases where robots have been sent into areas too dangerous for rescue workers. While the ...

Human-robot emotional and musical interactions: Lecture by Massimiliano Zecca

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 15 May 2015

In this video lecture, Massimiliano Zecca from the Healthcare Technology and Head of the Healthcare Technology group at Loughborough University discusses emotional robotics, musical robotics and...

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