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Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers
Robohub Editors
05 May 2015
This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadro...
The Year of the CoCoRo Video #18/52: Confining Jeff robots with an electric field
Thomas Schmickl
04 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 ...
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bStem, with Todd Hylton
Audrow Nash
01 May 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Todd Hylton, Senior Vice President at Brain Corporation, about neuromorphic computers. They discuss the robotics development board bStem, which appro...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #17/52: Lily confinement by bluelight
Thomas Schmickl
30 Apr 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 ...
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 real soft robots that inspired Baymax, with Chris Atkeson
Helmut Hauser
28 Apr 2015
Baymax, the lovable, inflatable robot star of Disney’s recent hit, Big Hero 6, is far from a movie fantasy. With their soft cushiony bodies, robots like Baymax have very real prospects as future car...
People and Robots: UC’s new multidisciplinary CITRIS initiative wants humans in the loop
Andra Keay and Hallie Siegel
22 Apr 2015
Since 2001, the University of California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) has leveraged multi-disciplinary research to tackle large societal proble...
Japan looks to distributed, cooperative control to help manage energy market deregulation
DigInfo TV
21 Apr 2015
Japan's power industry is currently centralized, but it aims to deregulate by around 2020. Coupled with this major structural market change, the expansion of thermal, nuclear and renewable power gener...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #16/52: JeffCam in a lake
Thomas Schmickl
19 Apr 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 ...
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180
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Soft Robotics Toolkit, with Donal Holland
Ron Vanderkley
17 Apr 2015
In this podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks to Donal Holland of Harvard University about his team’s work on the Soft Robotics Toolkit....
Tracing human evolution with robots
ETH Zurich
16 Apr 2015
By Samuel Schlaefli
With the help of robots, archaeologists may soon be able to compare their findings with data from thousands of experimental reference samples, enabling them to determine tool us...
Virtual role-play and robo-tutors
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
14 Apr 2015
Cyberlearning project teaches language and cross-cultural communication with avatars and robots.
Communication skills are critical in a global economy.
Since communication often occurs across cu...
Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Apr 2015
Earlier this week I was sent some advance research from the U of Michigan about car sickness rates for car passengers. I found the research of interest, but wish it had covered some questions I think ...
Researchers use artificial tail to study how we adapt to brain-machine interfaces
DigInfo TV
13 Apr 2015
Researchers from the Keio Institue of Pure and Applied Sciences (KiPAS) are working to reveal the mechanism by which newly acquired knowledge and information is transmitted and evolves among organisms...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #15/52: TRAILER LilyCam in a wild river
Thomas Schmickl
12 Apr 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 ...
How robots can help build better doctors
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 Apr 2015
A young doctor leans over a patient who has been in a serious car accident and invariably must be experiencing pain. The doctor's trauma team examines the patient's pelvis and rolls her onto her side ...
OpenBionics prosthetic hands: Open source, affordable, lightweight, anthropomorphic
Minas Liarokapis, Agisilaos Zisimatos, George Kontoudis, Christoforos Mavrogiannis and Kostas Kyriakopoulos
09 Apr 2015
OpenΒionics is an open-source initiative for the development of affordable, light-weight, modular robot hands and prosthetic devices, and can be easily reproduced using off-the-shelf materials....
Talking Machines: Spinning programming plates and creative algorithms, with Charles Sutton
Talking Machines
09 Apr 2015
In episode eight we talk with Charles Sutton, a professor in the School of Informatics University of Edinburgh about computer programming and using machine learning to better understand how it’s d...
Unpowered exoskeleton improves efficiency of human walking
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
08 Apr 2015
Humans have evolved to be incredibly efficient at walking. In fact, simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground and at a steady speed should theoretically require no power input ...
Complete force control in constrained under-actuated mechanical systems: Lecture by Francesco Nori
In this video lecture, Franceso Nori from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) walks us through the progress that's been made in humanoid robots in recent years. For example, the humanoids at ...
Video: Giving robots and prostheses a sense of touch
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
07 Apr 2015
The UCLA Biomechatronics Lab develops a language of touch that can be "felt" by computers and humans alike.
Research engineers and students in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Biomech...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #14/52: LilyCam in a Lake
Thomas Schmickl
05 Apr 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 ...
Deep Learning Primer
Frank Tobe
02 Apr 2015
The technology that unlocks intelligence from big data - deep learning - is explained in this video by Max Welling, a professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a founder of the Dutch deep learnin...
Clearpath and Christie demo 3D video game with robots
Clearpath Robotics
31 Mar 2015
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By Ryan Gariepy
For our recent “hack week” we teamed up with one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world, Christie, to make a 3D video game with robots. H...
Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS
Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza
30 Mar 2015
When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #13/52: Lilycam in nature
Thomas Schmickl
29 Mar 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 ...
Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing
In the future, robots will be in our daily lives: homes, schools, offices, factories, even restaurants. The field of social robotics looks at how these robots can interact with people socially, just l...
Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani
Talking Machines
26 Mar 2015
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...
Google scraps initial ‘Project Wing’ plans for new secret design
Ben Fisher
25 Mar 2015
The head of Google's moonshot lab Google X has recently announced they have scrapped the initial 'Project Wing' design that they have been testing in Australia. According to X lab Director Astro Te...
The Year of CoCoRo Video#12/52: Fun with Jeff in the pool
Thomas Schmickl
22 Mar 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 ...
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
Talking Machines
17 Mar 2015
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #11/52: Out of the lab in Livorno
Thomas Schmickl
15 Mar 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 ...
#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches Part I
Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...
Jibo’s coordinated expression mechanisms: Behind the scenes
Jibo
11 Mar 2015
In this development video, hosted by Jesse Gray & Matt Berlin of Team Jibo and the MIT Media Lab, we’ll discuss how Jibo uses movement, sound, LEDs, and screen graphics to communicate with peopl...
Revolutionising building and construction sites
ETH Zurich
10 Mar 2015
By Felix Würsten and Corinne Hodel (Interview).
Digital technologies have already turned many areas of the economy inside out. In this interview with Swiss NCCR Digital Fabrication researchers M...
Surgical micro-robot swarms: Science fiction, or realistic prospect?
Alan Winfield
09 Mar 2015
Imagine a swarm of microscopic robots that we inject into the vascular system: the swarm swims to the source of the problem, then either delivers therapeutics or undertakes microsurgery directly.
T...
